ThirdPlace Update/Christmas Giving Opportunities:

LEADERSHIP ADVANCE ’09: January 8-10 A three-day don’t-miss experience of self-exploration, motivating speaking sessions, team challenge, and…God coming down. Leadership Advance is a call to AWAKEN OUR HEARTS to God so He can shape us, change us, and help us discover the gifts He has placed in us. Leadership Advance is a call to AWAKEN OUR HEARTS to the people around us and the needs of those in our midst. Leadership Advance is a call to AWAKEN OUR HEARTS to the needs of the
world and urgency of our times. Lives that wake up to the call of God and the transformation. He wants to do in us are lives that transform the world. www.leadershipadvance.org

Interested in helping out with LA 2009?, we’d love to have you serve alongside us!! Contact Lois: lois@calvarysc.org

Volunteer Areas:
Coaches - Provide support, encouragement, guidance, and resources for the participants (training provided).
Food Team (meal prep & clean-up)
Donations (for LA Scholarships)
Prayer
Set-up (Jan. 7-8)
Tear-Down (Jan. 10)

Clothing Swap: Children, Men, and Women’s Clothing Swap

As a way to be good stewards, question our consumption, get rid of stuff, recycle and renew wardrobes of the Calvary community, ThirdPlace is hosting a clothing swap on Saturday, January 24 from 12-3pm at Calvary Baptist Church. Acceptable items to swap/donate are children’s clothing & shoes and/or men and women’s clothing, shoes, and accessories of all ages, shapes, and sizes. Contributions may be made to drop box locations in the Calvary Church fellowship hall or Calvary Midtown high school lobby before/after services January 17-18. All contributions will then be presorted and categorically arranged at Calvary Baptist Church. On January 24 from 12-3pm, swap participants are welcome to browse the contributions and are asked to take home no more than 6 items per woman/child/man. Excess items will then be donated to a non-profit organization (such as Goodwill) and/or used in Calvary missions.

Christmas Giving Opportunities:

Umuryango Children’s Network: An organization that seeks to see the Rwandan Street Children permanently transformed from isolated outcasts to productive, fully integrated members of the community who are physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually whole. Umuryango takes care of street children in Rwanda by placing them in homes and meet their needs in practical ways. Whether your interested in sponsoring a boy in Rwanda, making a one time donation, or just being more informed...here’s their website (http://www.umuryango.org) and info on how to make a contribution.

Your Financial Contribution:
You can give your monthly or one-time donation by:
1. Sending a check, made out to Umuryango Children's Network (with your child's name on the memo line) to the US Mailing Address.
2. Making an electronic transfer from your bank account to ours. If you wish to do so, send Matthew an email and he will provide you with the routing and account numbers.
3. Paying online via PayPal. The link is here (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=821320).

Contact Information:
Mailing Address in US.
Umuryango Children's Network
PO Box 100701
Arlington, VA 22210

Adopt Boy in Rwanda: Additional sponsors are needed for the Adopt-A-Child program at the Umuryango Boy’s Home in Byimana, Rwanda (www.umuryango.org). For more info contact Matthew Heinz, heinzmatthew@gmail.com.

TOMS Shoes: A really unique social justice minded business. For every pair of shoes purchased, TOMS gives a pair of shoes to a child in need. A brand of shoe created in May 2006 by Blake Mycoskie, a former contestant of reality TV’s “The Amazing Race”. The goal behind Mycoskie’s line of shoes is to end shoelessness in third-world countries through donating shoes. http://www.tomsshoes.com

TOMS Shoe Drop Argentina 2006 (a little clip that shows the shoes they’ve been able to give to kiddos who need them!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ8c5QWsCRQ

CompassionArt: CompassionArt is a charity that joins the dots between art and poverty. It raises money to help breathe life into the poorest communities, restoring hope and igniting justice. http://www.compassionart.co.uk They headline 4 projects:

India and Cambodia: Hand of Hope
Brazil: Ray of Hope
Uganda: Watoto
Worldwide: Stop The Traffik

But they also have 12 artists who have a number of charities that the royalties will go to from the Album Sales....Hope Rwanda is one of them.

Mocha Club: Is about connecting our community with the community in Africa. You start by giving up $7 a month, the cost of 2 mochas. And you get to pick where that money is going. The have many different ongoing projects around Africa - pick the one that YOU love...(HIV/AIDS, Orphan Care, Child Mothers, Sudan Regrowth, Education, Job Creation). https://www.mochaclub.org/mochaclub/welcome.


Housing/Sublets: please let me know when your need is filled. Thanks!

One male needed: Bedroom available for rent in two-person, four-bedroom apartment in Historic Lemont starting January 2009. If you're interested, additional details can be found at http://pennstate.craigslist.org/roo/967442410.html or email Matt McKinney at matthew.c.mckinney@gmail.com

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Lois Abdelmalek
ThirdPlace
814.238.0822 ext 24