MISSION

TBC members describe mission trips, work

Many members of Temple Baptist Church went on mission trips over the summer, some in California and some in Nigeria and Kenya. Here are their answers to questions about their trips

August 12, 2011

Jamestown group going on mission to help Haiti

A group of Jamestown residents is getting ready to travel next week more than 2,400 miles to the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. James Valley Youth for Christ is headed on a mission trip to Haiti on July 8. Once there, 11 students and seven staff members will be tasked with helping the people of Haiti after a January 2010 earthquake affected the lives of an estimated 3 million people.

By Ben Rodgers , July 01, 2011

Horton to discuss mission work

Tom Horton of Fargo will describe the work of Medical Mission Ecuador at the 10:30 a.m. Sunday worship service Zion United Church of Christ, Medina. Horton, who is a physician assistant in the Sanford Health System, Fargo, returned last week from a periodic medical mission to Ecuador. He is part of a medical team that provides needed specialized health services to the people of Ecuador through the non-profit organization Medical Mission Ecuador. Horton is a graduate of University of Arkansas with a degree in emergency medicine. He is a registered physician assistant and has worked in hospitals in St. Paul, Minn., and Fargo. He is married to Lavonne Heupel, the daughter of Ray and Mary Heupel, Medina.

February 25, 2011

Farmers use program to help missions

VALE, S.D. (AP) — When Paul Marrs feeds silage to a herd of black Angus cattle on his farm near Vale, he is also helping train youth pastors in the Ukraine. Or provide medical care in a remote African village. And support campus ministry at nearby Black Hills State University in Spearfish.

By By Mary Garrigan, Rapid City Journal , November 22, 2010

Helstrom sharing ministry at church

Missionary Brian Helstrom will be speaking on Palm Sunday, March 28, at 6 p.m. at the Church of the Nazarene in Jamestown.

March 19, 2010

Mission’s impact discussed

The scheduled federal environmental impact hearing Monday in Grand Forks on several Air Force options to restrict airspace over much of northeast North Dakota to facilitate the proposed mission of unmanned aerial vehicles at Grand Forks Air Force Base had to be postponed at the last minute. Seems the manned aerial vehicles scheduled to carry federal administrative judges to the hearing couldn’t get out of airspace on the East Coast and over Minneapolis because of winter weather.

By By Stephen J. Lee, Forum Communications Co. , February 09, 2010

GF nurse reflects on time in Haiti

The news came to Janette Yaeger in a phone call from her son, Charles, who knew it would trouble her. There’s been an earthquake, he told her. In Haiti. It looks bad. Janette Yaeger, 79, is a retired public health nurse living in Grand Forks. She contributed to church mission work much of her life, and she has known poverty firsthand, including an 11-year stint on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.

By By Chuck Haga, Forum Communications Co. , January 14, 2010

Group raising funds with purse exchange

Their mission trip last summer took the nine Temple Baptist Church members from Nairobi, Kenya, to a small community and church in Uganda — a new Christian Mission Aid project.

September 25, 2009

Commander discusses base changes

The commander of the Grand Forks Air Force Base says he expects to lose 44 percent of the base’s aircraft and 48 percent of the air crew in the next six months as the base makes a transition from refueling tankers to unmanned aerial vehicles. Two flying squadrons also will be inactivated before next June. “We’re in a very rapid drawdown now,” Col. John Michel told school board members from Grand Forks and the Grand Forks Air Force Base in a meeting Monday night.

November 26, 2008

North Dakota officials headed on trade mission to Turkey starting Friday

North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Roger Johnson and the state Trade Office will lead an eight-day trade mission to Turkey beginning Friday.

November 11, 2008

Jamestown Conference hosting mission event

The Jamestown Conference is hosting a synod-wide mission event from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 20 in at Trinity Lutheran Church, 523 Fourth Ave. S.W. The event will include group sessions with mission speakers and global music, four 50-minute workshop sessions with multiple choices, displays and hand-crafted African items for sale by Asante Network of Valley City. The noon lunch will feature ethnic food from mission countries. The event is intergenerational with activities for all ages. Registration forms are available from area churches or on Trinity’s Web site, trinityjames town.com.

August 29, 2008

Youth go on mission trip

Ten youth and four adults from St. Paul’s United Methodist and First United Methodist churches went on a mission trip to Juarez, Mexico, June 13-22. They joined with 166 other youth and adults from the Dakotas in Spearfish, S.D., to travel to Juarez where they built cement block houses for 17 families. They also cleaned up a church mission area and pulled up fence.

July 15, 2008

Rath going on mission trip

Delores Rath will be going to the Ukraine on a mission trip with Thoughts of Faith of the ELS Lutheran Church.

June 27, 2008

Atonement mission team

May 30, 2008

J.A.M.M. hosts youth at YMCA

On March 26 the United Presbyterian Church J.A.M.M. hosted youth throughout the Jamestown community at the YMCA to celebrate the conclusion of the Mission March – the Youth Unite rally. Children and youth participated in songs, games, lessons, prayer, and were treated to “gutter sundaes.” More than 160 youth attended and learned how one person can make a difference in the lives of others.

April 18, 2008