Opportunity to Help with Asheville Area Foster Event

Hi Alliance Friends!

Below is a message from Erica at DSS. Please consider how your orphan ministry can help with this area event. Thanks!

Volunteers Needed - Any Thoughts?
Greetings!



You were selected for this email because you are well connected and understand the need of kids in foster care (or those in kinship placements). Please let me know if you do not want to receive such emails in the future.





On Saturday, August 7th, from 10 – 2, a collaborative of foster care agencies will be putting on a “Everybody Can Help” event at the Asheville Mall.



We will be focusing on community education and recruiting foster parents – but Clear Channel will also be there doing a live on-site broadcast and the Foster Care Association will be taking donations of items for Back-To-School and pre-holiday giving. This is Tax-Free weekend!



So why am I writing to you? We need volunteers to stand at the mall entrances and hand out flyers as people come in.



It’s a simple, fun, generous way to help kids in care – please consider donating some of your time to this event. And please spread the word! Anyone interested can email or call me anytime: 775-2404 or erica.jourdan@buncombecounty.org





Many thanks for all that you do for/with children!



Warm wishes,



Erica







Erica Jourdan, MSW

Recruitment Specialist, Buncombe County DSS

PO Box 7408

Asheville, NC 28802

Phone: 828-775-2404

Fax: 828-250-6235 (include cover sheet)

Email: erica.jourdan@buncombecounty.org

New Carolina Area Alliance

Hi Alliance Friends!

Below is a message from a lady who is compiling contact information on churches that have orphan ministries. She would LOVE to add the churches from our WNC Alliance. You can send your info to Becky Lloyd and she will be glad to pass it along. Thanks!

Becky Lloyd
Signs for Hope
beckylloyd@juno.com
828-691-2581


Dear Friends in Adoption and Orphan Care,

We have formed Carolina Christian Alliance for Orphans, a group of churches and other organizations to advance adoption and orphan care. On our website, we want to include churches that provide an adoption and/or orphan ministry. Can you please send me the contact information for your churches so that we can add it to our website.

You can also check-out our website at carolinachristianalliancefororphans.org (I know it is a long one!)

Any other ministries that you think should be added under resources, please let me know. I trust you are all enjoying the summer.


May Blessing Abound,

Laura

Share His Hope- March 2010

Share His Hope Orphan Conference

March 19-20, 2010

Merrimon Avenue Baptist Church

Asheville, NC

Sixteen relevant breakout sessions will include:

How to Start an Orphan Ministry

Beginning the Adoption Journey

and many others

Keynote Speakers will include:

Paul Pennington

Johnny Carr

Dan Cruver

Exhibitors from adoption agencies and ministries will be on hand at the workshop to answer questions and give information!

Registration begins January 25, 2010

For more information, you can email Becky at

beckylloyd@juno.com

**For those in the Alliance who are willing to help with the planning stages, there will be a meeting at Merrimon Ave. Baptist Church on Wed. Jan. 20 at 7:30pm. If you can't make the mtg, but would like to help, just email Becky. **

Reminder- Foster/Adopt Fall Festival

Foster Adopt Fall Festival

Sat. Nov 14, 2009 2pm-5pm
at the Coleman Place
(3rd Fl. Chamber or Commerce 36 Montford Ave. Downtown Asheville)

FREE!
Information about fostering, older children awaiting adoption-
also crafts for kids, give-aways, and MORE!
For more info call 828-258-5868

Orphan Sunday and Tabitha's Closet

Reminder- THIS Sunday, Nov. 8th is Orphan Sunday! See below...

Free Concert and Clothing for Foster and Adopted Children


We'd like to invite you and your family to an Event on Orphan Sunday, November 8th from 5-7. The event will include a concert with Steven Curtis Chapman, broadcast live via webcast into the Terrace Hall at Biltmore Baptist Church. Please Note: the time is 5:00, not 4:00 like the poster indicates below (We are in Eastern Time zone, while concert will be in Central). We'll also be collecting used coats (both children and adult sizes) that will be donated to Tabitha's Closet.



That evening, Tabitha's Closet will have gently-used winter children's clothes available for parents of adopted or foster children. We encourage you to come and take what you need, free of charge! If you have any questions about the event, please contact Jill Toth at jtoth44@gmail.com.



Join us and spread the word!

Presbyterian Home for Children- Black Mountain

Hi Alliance Friends-

This message is from Leighton Pauly at the Presbyterian Home for Children here in Black Mountain. These classes are free, so please pass this along to anyone who may be interested in fostering or fostering-to-adopt classes taught in a Christian environment.

Thanks! Lorie

Presbyterian Home for Children in Black Mountain is preparing to hold a 10-week training session for anyone who may be interested in becoming a foster parent. If you have ever thought about becoming a foster parent, this would be an opportunity to explore exactly what it would look like and decide with a trainer if it would be right for you and your family.

Training sessions will begin the 2nd week of January. They will last 10 weeks ending in March, depending on inclement weather. If you are interested and have questions please feel free to contact Leighton Pauly, coordinator of Foster Care at 828. 686.3451 x15 or leighton_phfc@bellsouth.net

Orphan Sunday - Nov. 8

Hi Alliance Friends-

The upcoming Orphan Sunday on Nov. 8th will be featured at Biltmore Baptist Church.

The live concert and events scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009 in Nashville will be seen live at a simulcast at Biltmore Baptist in Terrace Hall from 5-8pm.

Everyone is invited and this is a family event.

For more information on Orphan Sunday and the Live Event with Steven Curtis Chapman, Dennis Rainey, Jim Daly, visit the Orphan Sunday website at

http://www.orphansunday.org/

Foster/ Adopt Fall Festival

Foster Adopt Fall Festival

Sat. Nov 14, 2009 2pm-5pm

at the Coleman Place

(3rd Fl. Chamber or Commerce 36 Montford Ave. Downtown Asheville)

FREE!

Information about fostering, older children awaiting adoption-

also crafts for kids, give-aways, and MORE!

For more info call 828-258-5868

Shoe Drive

Hi Alliance Friends-

The following message is from Maria at First Baptist Hendersonville:

The Women's Ministry & Hands of Hope Orphan Ministry @ FBC are partnering to sponsor the shoe drive. It will run from October 1st thru November 1st. People can donate new shoes and/or socks. The need is for athletic shoes, but any type will be gladly accepted. The donations can be dropped off at FBC or people can contact me and I will arrange to collect them. At FBC, there will be red wagons at each entrance for dropping off donated items. Here is the Buckner website so you can get more information about where the shoes go. www.ShoesforOrphanSouls.org

My contact information: Maria Rich 828-699-3307 or mrich94@bellsouth.net

Hi Alliance Friends-

If your church is interested in having the WNC Heart Gallery at your church, (I KNOW most of you are!) please contact Erica at erica.jourdan@buncombecounty.org

Erica works at DSS and needs churches to book the Heart Gallery. What a GREAT way to get these precious children adopted/exposed into Christian families! Let's all try to book this Gallery solid with churches from all over WNC! Praise God! What an easy opportunity to help these kids!

Also, Erica is in need of school supplies for the foster kids of Buncombe County. If your church would like to help by having a drive, email Erica. Let me know of any events at your church, and I'll get them right up on the blog for you. newmanlorie@yahoo.com

Blessings,

Lorie

Hi Alliance Friends!

Reminder for our meeting THIS Saturday--

We will meet at Merrimon Ave. Baptist Church on Sat. June 13th at 9AM.

Bring a breakfast "munchie" to share with the group. If you have some extra milk or juice in the fridge, bring that too.

Also, remember that the church will be having a men's breakfast that morning...but that should have little impact on us. There will be signs directing people from the Alliance to the room where the meeting will take place.

Everyone should enter the building from the double glass doors in the back. If anyone needs directions, the church's address is:

Merrimon Avenue Baptist Church
283 Merrimon Avenue
Asheville, NC 28801

See you there! Forward this on to anyone interested in joining us!

Alliance Statement of Faith

Hi Alliance Friends-

Below is a very basic Statement of Faith. It is one that I have used in another ministry. It is "cross-denominational" and I think you'll find these truths to be basic to all Christians. I especially LOVE #6! That's a picture of this Alliance!

Thanks!
Lorie

~ One God in three Persons—Father, Son and Holy Spirit

~ Jesus Christ’s deity, virgin birth, sinless humanity, substitutionary death, atoning blood, bodily resurrection and ascension to Heaven.

~ The entire Bible is God’s infallible revelation to man

~ Salvation by faith alone, through grace alone, in Jesus Christ alone

~ The resurrection of the body: eternal glory for believers in Heaven, and everlasting punishment for unbelievers in Hell

~ The one true church, the body of Christ, consisting of all believers

~ Obedience to our Lord’s command to lead people of all nations to faith in Christ and to growth in Christ-likeness

~ Christ’s personal return to establish His Kingdom on earth

~ The Holy Spirit indwells and empowers believers and is given as a seal and a pledge of our inheritance in Jesus Christ

Hi Alliance Friends-

Since Biltmore Baptist was not an option for our next meeting, we will meet at Merrimon Ave. Baptist Church. We will meet there on Sat. June 13th at 9AM.

Just so you know, the church will be having a men's breakfast that morning...but that should have little impact on us. There will be signs directing people from the Alliance to the room where the meeting will take place.

Everyone should enter the building from the double glass doors in the back. If any one needs directions the church's address is:

Merrimon Avenue Baptist Church

283 Merrimon Avenue

Asheville, NC 28801

Welcome to the WNC Alliance Blog!

Hi Alliance Friends! It was so good to meet all of you today. Isn't it wonderful that God has given us all a heart for the forgotten and brought us together for this purpose? Praise to the Father to the Fatherless! He alone is worthy of our praise!

Let's all begin to pray for what is ahead for this group. I consider it a great privilege to lock arms with you and march on the battlefield of the fatherless!

In the days ahead I will post a statement of faith for you all to review. I will bring a copy of it to the next meeting, Sat. June 13, for each of us to sign.

Also, if you have something that you would like to be posted here on the blog for the entire Alliance to see and know about, please email it to me at newmanlorie@yahoo.com and I will copy and paste it on the blog for you.

With each posting, I will add a picture of an orphan or orphans from around the world, (many from my travels), just to make the posting more interesting.

Each of you needs to click on the this blog's sidebar where it says, "subscribe" and enter your email address. Follow the directions given to ensure you get an email update each time a post is made to this blog.

Marching Beside You on the Battlefield of the Forgotten,

Lorie Newman

PS- Sorry I couldn't get our "official title" in the heading of this blog exactly the way we discussed today-- it wouldn't fit unless I compressed it! :-)