Thanksgiving Gift Card DriveFor One of Iowa’s Newest Faith Congregations

Southern Sudanese (Mabaan)Worshipping Community

Nov. 14th-18th, 2016

Please help this new community of faith by donating a gift card. Over 200 people, who are part of the South Sudanese (Mabaan) worshipping community, will be gathering at Epworth United Methodist Church in Des Moines on Thanksgiving Day to celebrate and worship. This includes over 150 families from Des Moines, Omaha and Storm Lake. They will be coming together to share in prayer, singing, worship and scripture reading in their unique cultural traditions.

Gift cards are needed to provide supplies for the gathering but will also be evenly distributed to each individual refugee family who have speci�c needs for basic necessities and housing supplies so they are able to personally select the items that they would like to have for their families including: food, winter clothing, toiletries, toilet paper, cleaning supplies, dishware and etc.

Please donate $25, $50 and $100 (and upward) from the following:• Walmart Also needed: two used or new electric• Hy-Vee guitar ampli�ers for worship services.• Casey’s General Stores

Donated gift cards will be accepted at the Central District O�ce located at2301 Rittenhouse St., Des Moines, IA 50321 from 11/14/16 – 11/17/16. Please bring the gift cards to the Central District o�ce Monday through Thursday during regular business hours from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.)

For more information or if you want to support this unique community of faith, please contact Naomi Sea Young Wittstruck, Central District Field Outreach Minister by phone at 515.974.8914 or email naomiseayoung.wittstruck@iaumc.org.

Thanksgiving Gift Card DriveFor One of Iowa’s Newest Faith Congregations

Southern Sudanese (Mabaan)Worshipping Community

Nov. 14th-18th, 2016

Please help this new community of faith by donating a gift card. Over 200 people, who are part of the South Sudanese (Mabaan) worshipping community, will be gathering at Epworth United Methodist Church in Des Moines on Thanksgiving Day to celebrate and worship. This includes over 150 families from Des Moines, Omaha and Storm Lake. They will be coming together to share in prayer, singing, worship and scripture reading in their unique cultural traditions.

Gift cards are needed to provide supplies for the gathering but will also be evenly distributed to each individual refugee family who have speci�c needs for basic necessities and housing supplies so they are able to personally select the items that they would like to have for their families including: food, winter clothing, toiletries, toilet paper, cleaning supplies, dishware and etc.

Please donate $25, $50 and $100 (and upward) from the following:• Walmart Also needed: two used or new electric• Hy-Vee guitar ampli�ers for worship services.• Casey’s General Stores

Donated gift cards will be accepted at the Central District O�ce located at2301 Rittenhouse St., Des Moines, IA 50321 from 11/14/16 – 11/17/16. Please bring the gift cards to the Central District o�ce Monday through Thursday during regular business hours from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.)

For more information or if you want to support this unique community of faith, please contact Naomi Sea Young Wittstruck, Central District Field Outreach Minister by phone at 515.974.8914 or email naomiseayoung.wittstruck@iaumc.org.

As colleagues in ministry within the Central District, we have the unique opportunity to provide direct support for one of our Central District priority

ministries and one of our Iowa Annual Conference’s �ve priority worshipping congregations, the Mabaan (South Sudanese) worshipping community that is

housed at Epworth United Methodist Church, 412 Euclid Ave., Des Moines.

As refugees and immigrants to this country and recent newcomers to Iowa, we are inviting you into the wonderful opportunity to participate in organizing your

congregation in a gift card drive to support the Mabaan worshipping community’s Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations.

We are inviting your congregations to coordinate e�orts to garner donations of gift cards to support the basic needs of over 150 South Sudanese families who

come from the Mabaan tribe who are actively engaged in the Mabaan worshipping community.

To learn more about Pastor Aaron Limmo and his wife Helen and their four children and other members of their worshipping community, please go to

http://www.iaumc.org/southernsudanesemabaannews2.

For more information or if you want to support this unique community of faith, please contact Naomi Sea Young Wittstruck,

Central District Field Outreach Minister by phone at 515.974.8914 or email naomiseayoung.wittstruck@iaumc.org.

About the Gift Card Drive

As colleagues in ministry within the Central District, we have the unique opportunity to provide direct support for one of our Central District priority

ministries and one of our Iowa Annual Conference’s �ve priority worshipping congregations, the Mabaan (South Sudanese) worshipping community that is

housed at Epworth United Methodist Church, 412 Euclid Ave., Des Moines.

As refugees and immigrants to this country and recent newcomers to Iowa, we are inviting you into the wonderful opportunity to participate in organizing your

congregation in a gift card drive to support the Mabaan worshipping community’s Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations.

We are inviting your congregations to coordinate e�orts to garner donations of gift cards to support the basic needs of over 150 South Sudanese families who

come from the Mabaan tribe who are actively engaged in the Mabaan worshipping community.

To learn more about Pastor Aaron Limmo and his wife Helen and their four children and other members of their worshipping community, please go to

http://www.iaumc.org/southernsudanesemabaannews2.

For more information or if you want to support this unique community of faith, please contact Naomi Sea Young Wittstruck,

Central District Field Outreach Minister by phone at 515.974.8914 or email naomiseayoung.wittstruck@iaumc.org.

About the Gift Card Drive

Nov. 14th-Dec. 14th, 2016

Christmas Gift Card DriveFor One of Iowa’s Newest Faith Congregations

Southern Sudanese (Mabaan)Worshipping Community

On Christmas Day over 150 families with children of all ages who belong to the Mabaan (South Sudanese) worshipping community will gather together to share in a community worship celebration at a church in Storm Lake. The service will include music, prayer, and a sharing of the scriptures through a creative theater-based production. The celebration will be in Arabic, English, and Mabaan. Gift cards are needed to provide supplies for the celebration, but will also be evenly distributed to each individual refugee family who have speci�c needs for basic necessities and housing supplies so they are able to personally select the items that they would like to have for their families including: food, winter clothing, toiletries, toilet paper, cleaning supplies, dishware and etc.

Please donate $25, $50 and $100 (and upward) from the following:• Walmart Also needed: two used or new electric• Hy-Vee guitar ampli�ers for worship services.• Casey’s General Stores

Donated gift cards will be accepted at the Central District O�ce located at 2301 Rittenhouse St., Des Moines, IA 50321 from 11/14/16 – 12/14/16. Please bring the gift cards to the Central District o�ce Monday through Thursday during regular business hours from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.)

For more information or if you want to support this unique community of faith, please contact Naomi Sea Young Wittstruck, Central District Field Outreach Minister by phone at 515.974.8914 or email naomiseayoung.wittstruck@iaumc.org.

Nov. 14th-Dec. 14th, 2016

Christmas Gift Card DriveFor One of Iowa’s Newest Faith Congregations

Southern Sudanese (Mabaan)Worshipping Community

On Christmas Day over 150 families with children of all ages who belong to the Mabaan (South Sudanese) worshipping community will gather together to share in a community worship celebration at a church in Storm Lake. The service will include music, prayer, and a sharing of the scriptures through a creative theater-based production. The celebration will be in Arabic, English, and Mabaan. Gift cards are needed to provide supplies for the celebration, but will also be evenly distributed to each individual refugee family who have speci�c needs for basic necessities and housing supplies so they are able to personally select the items that they would like to have for their families including: food, winter clothing, toiletries, toilet paper, cleaning supplies, dishware and etc.

Please donate $25, $50 and $100 (and upward) from the following:• Walmart Also needed: two used or new electric• Hy-Vee guitar ampli�ers for worship services.• Casey’s General Stores

Donated gift cards will be accepted at the Central District O�ce located at 2301 Rittenhouse St., Des Moines, IA 50321 from 11/14/16 – 12/14/16. Please bring the gift cards to the Central District o�ce Monday through Thursday during regular business hours from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.)

For more information or if you want to support this unique community of faith, please contact Naomi Sea Young Wittstruck, Central District Field Outreach Minister by phone at 515.974.8914 or email naomiseayoung.wittstruck@iaumc.org.