Friday,

March 27, 2015

6:30-9:00 p.m.

Advance registration required.

Sign up today!

Children, infants through 6th grade, will spend the evening focusing on the true

meaning of Easter through games, crafts, story-time, snacks, and an “empty tomb” egg

hunt — while parents enjoy an evening out.

This is a great opportunity to reach out to friends and neighbors by inviting their

children to come and participate, while the adults go out for dinner or an evening

activity together, or for parents to have a special date night.

Register your child by e-mailing mbroening@faithchurch.net.

Registration due by noon on Tuesday, March 24.

To sign up to volunteer, e-mail kdistefano@faithchurch.net.

Or come to the sign-up table in the East Alcove.

Kids Easter Celebration & Parents Night Out

A Word from Miss Mary Lee

Mary Lee

faith church

January-February 2015 Issue 11

KidsUpdate

Mark your calendar

January 25 — Funny

Munny Store

February 22 —

Funny Munny Store

March 8 —

Daylight Savings Time

begins (spring for-

ward)

See page 4 for more

Upcoming Events

Inside this issue:

January-February

Missions Emphasis

2

RHM Staff 2

Where RHM Is

Located

2

What Happens At

RHM-Ro

3

RHM Prayer

Requests

3

Kids @ Faith 4

Upcoming Events 4

A newsletter for the parents of children in the Faith Church Children’s Ministry

Information

Inspiration

Intentional

Discipleship

He did

it all for

me?

RHM stands for Romanian

Handicapped Ministries, a

ministry begun in 1998 by Jerry

Skinner, a member of Faith

Church. The mission of RHM is

to work with disabled children

and young adults in the city of

Constanta, on the lower Black

Sea coast of Romanian

Dubrogea. RHM and RHM-Ro

provide life skills education,

medical care, physical therapy,

social service support and

assistance, social activities,

and most of all—the love of

our Savior, Jesus Christ—to

over 70 persons including

disabled young adults, their

family members and

caretakers. RHM-Ro also

teaches in the city public

schools about the worth of

one human life in God’s eyes.

Join your Faith Church family for a tasty, filling

breakfast in the MPR on the morning of

Sunday, November 23. Then, we will worship

together with a special “One Service” at 10:30

a.m. celebrating all we have to be thankful for

in Christ — especially at this wonderful season

of the year. Childcare and classes will be

provided for infants through 3rd Grade and

Special Friends during the One Service.

Classrooms will open at 10:15 a.m.

January-February Missions Emphasis — RHM

Where is RHM-Ro?

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Romanian Leadership of RHM

people with mental and

physical disabilities.

His wife, Gabriela, known

affectionately by us as Dr.

Gabi, is the Medical

Director of the RHM-Ro

Foundation in Constanta.

She gives medical care to

Foundation members and

their families, teaches basic

academics in the Day Center,

and has established a nicely

supplied pharmacy for the

Day Center/Clinic and the

evangelical church where they

are active members.

Liviu Marin, our Certified

Social Worker, came to the

staff of RHM-Ro in 2005. He

created an innovative school

program that addresses the

inherent value of personhood in

general, and of disabled persons

in particular.

Silviu

Ghereben,

Executive

Director of

RHM, is

pictured here

with his family.

He is educated

as an attorney, and also holds a

graduate degree. He came

to RHM-Ro in 2004, and has a

fervent commitment to

serving God by ministering to

The world is a difficult place for

people who are born with or

develop severe disabilities.

Even in the United States,

prejudice, fear, and a disregard

for the worth of someone who

is unable to contribute

according to social norms

has marginalized those who

suffer with disabilities.

American tolerance of and

assistance for the disabled is a

positive development. Much of

the world still lags behind and

still views those who suffer

with handicaps as

“irrecoverable.” The term

means beyond help and

was coined in Romania.

Romanian society has been

conditioned historically to

persecute and ignore

anyone with any disability.

Life can be brutal and cold

if you are a child or young

person in Romania with a

handicap—any handicap.

4) For the provision of a

new van

5) For wisdom concerning

the next phase of

growth— a respite

place for any members

of our foundation

whose parents may die

and not have been able

to make any arrange-

ments for care of the

member

1) That monthly financial

support would increase

for salaries and supplies at

our center in Costanta

2) For growth of the

believers who have come

to know Jesus as Lord and

Savior

3) For the rest of the young

adults and family members

to come to know

Jesus as Lord and Savior

Why is RHM-Ro Needed?

Prayer Requests for RHM

What Goes On at RHM-Ro in the Day Center Program?

Math—with particular

emphasis given to counting

money, objects, number

recognition, telling time, games

with numbers, etc.

Social Skill building has

produced close bonding among

members as well as families.

Individualized Physical

Therapy programs utilize large

-muscle therapy machines: a

stepper, a stationary bike, a

vibrator/belt massage, and a

treadmill. For small-muscle

therapy there are hand grips,

balls to squeeze, bands to

stretch, small weights, pencils,

markers, crayons, blunt tipped

scissors, and massage.

The daily program also in-

cludes: computer skills, music,

Bible studies and concepts,

instruction on personal hygiene,

and complete medical care.

An average day at RHM-Ro

runs from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. It

includes structured and

unstructured activities such as:

Language Arts—practice

with writing names, ages,

letters, or strokes in a

personal copybook, fun with

simple crossword puzzles,

mazes, drawing, coloring, etc.,

and verbalizing simple English

words.

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Children’s Palm Parade in both

worship services Spring forward one hour

Between 9:15 and 10:45 hours,

and at noon

Reservations required—Please

make as soon as possible (but

no later than noon on Tuesday,

March 24)

We honor our wonderful

Sunday School staff with a

special dinner and gift

VBS opportunity for 3-year-

olds through Kindergarten age

children

Between 9:15 and 10:45 hours,

and at noon

VBS opportunity for children in

Kindergarten through 6th

grade

Upcoming Events

RHM Missions Project

During the month of

February, we will be

collecting craft items that can

be utilized by the ministry of

RHM in Romania. Items that

can be used include:

coloring books,

construction paper, ribbons,

paper plates,

small jars of paint,

glue sticks,

glue bottles,

any simple craft item. Just have your child bring

craft items to donate and put

them on the lowest shelf on

the cart outside your child’s

classroom.

KIDS @ FAITH Making disciples one child at a time

The Children’s Ministry

exists to partner with parents

as together we lay the

spiritual foundation where

real transformation takes

place in the lives of the

preschoolers and elementary

children who attend our

ministries at Faith Church.

Our purpose is for children

to experience a life-changing

relationship with Jesus Christ

and grow in that relationship

as reproducing disciples of

the Lord Jesus. We desire

that each child come to the

place where he or she

chooses to imitate the whole

life of Christ by being in

communion with God, in community with others, and

on mission with Christ.