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News Across the District
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 Mother’s Day 2010 was a big day in the life of the Truth or Consequences Church. Not only did they honor all their mothers, they had the opportunity to honor one mother in particular, Florence Gower, with a Distinguished Service Award. Florence has served many years on the Church Board as Steward and has headed up the prayer chain as well. Always ready with a testimony, song, or joke, she has brought life and love into the services. Although she has been in poor health for many months, she said the Holy Spirit told her to get dressed and come to church that Sunday, even though she didn’t feel like it. After the presentation she was able to talk with her daughter in Tucson. Pastor Twyeffort commented, “I had a lady in a previous church who said, ‘My mother always told me to give flowers to the living.’ So that is what we did, and it was a great joy to honor her for her faithful service to Jesus and His church. Florence has set a great example for all of us to follow, so we honored her in this way. She was particularly pleased to know the money for the service award would go to provide health care for our missionaries.” Tularosa Church has begun a new ministry Bibles for Mexico. They have sent 100 Spanish NIV New Testaments to Juarez, Mexico. Their goal for this church year is to send 1,000 Bibles from the NM district to Juarez, Sonora, and Tijuana. If you wish to contribute: Tularosa Church of the Nazarene, PO Box 457, Tularosa, NM 88352.  Alamogordo New Beginnings Church had their first worship/celebration in their new Phase II sanctuary on May 16. Average attendance has been 110 and the new sanctuary doubles seating capacity to 200.
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NM District Childrens Bible Quizzing
The NM District Children’s Bible Quizzing concluded their season on 4/10/10 with the quiz meet held at Living Stones Community Church in Clovis. Sixty children competed in two levels of quizzing. Pedor Calzadillas (Sandia Valley), who missed only 2 out of 30 questions, took top honors in the Red Level. Zoe Clever and Jayla Yarbrough (Sandia Valley) and Cole Yeager (Living Stones) all tied for 2nd Place. Loren Hernandez (Sandia Mt.) and Dylan Yeager (Living Stones) tied for 3rd Place. Competition in the Blue Level was tight as 3 quizzers tied for 1st Place: Robin Kneeland and Ethan Johnson (Carlsbad Church Street) and Brianna Ware (Roswell Central). Each of these quizzers only missed 3 questions out of 60. In 2nd Place: Orion Clever (Sandia Valley) and four quizzers finished in a tie for 3rd Place: Megan Williams (Living Stones), Emily Zottneck (Roswell 1st), and Sarah Loftis & Sydney Kneeland (Carlsbad Church Street). Blue-Level quizzers also compete as 5-member teams. The team from Carlsbad Church Street finished in 1st Place. Team members: Robin & Sydney Kneeland, Sarah Loftis, Samantha Kostedt & Frances Ratliff. A combined team of quizzers consisting of Megan Williams, Ben Yeager, and Sonya Lopez (Living Stones) and Brianna & Katy Ware (Roswell Central) took 2nd Place. Teams from Sandia Valley (Orion Clever, Marisela Calzadillas, RJ King, Tayler Smoot, and Deseray Pedro) and Roswell 1st (Emily Zottneck, Sara White, Drew Lucero, Evan James, and Xavier Hernandez) tied for 3rd Place The Carlsbad Church Street team will represent the NM District at the SW Regional Quiz Meet at PLNU on May 1, 2010. In addition, the top 10 individual quizzers (not on the 1st place team) will also represent the district as NM District All-Stars at the Reg. Quiz Meet. The NM District All-Stars are: Brianna Ware (Roswell Central); Ethan Johnson and Andrew Coonradt (Carlsbad 1st); Orion Clever and Deseray Pedro (Sandia Valley); Megan Williams and Ben Yeager (Living Stones); Emily Zottneck (Roswell 1st); Travis Kostedt (Carlsbad Church Street) and Samantha Bothwell (Alb. Asbury United Methodist). Children competing at the District Quiz represented the following churches: Asbury United Methodist, Carlsbad Church Street, Carlsbad 1st, Living Stones, Portales 1st, Roswell Central, Roswell 1st, Sandia Mt., and Sandia Valley. Children’s Bible Quizzing is a fun and exciting ministry designed to encourage children in the 1st thru 6th grades to study God’s Word. Contact Dawn Herren dawnjohanna@hotmail.com, the NM District Dir., or visit the web page www.nmbiblequizzing.com for more information about starting a Bible Quizzing ministry at your church for next year.
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