Greetings!

As Missionaries-in-Residence on Washington Pacific District, we are planning a Student Rally for all on our district who are in ministry training OR already in ministry and not yet trained. It will be held at Kaleidoscope, a gathering place for multi-cultural learning that is part of West Seattle Church of the Nazarene (4201 SW Juneau St., Seattle 98136). It will be a time for you to get to know others on the district who are already in ministry and/or in preparation preparation for ministry.

The date was originally earlier in September, but there was a conflict with another big event so it is now Saturday, September 29th at the West Seattle Church. The program will be from 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and will include games, prayer, planning, lectures, and of course some table fellowship at lunchtime. We will have coffee, tea, ice, cookies and paper products and plasticware. Please bring a favorite salad or sandwiches or a little of both and your favorite cold drink. We'll probably trade receipes -- that's part of the fun.

The date of our rally now falls within the unique month-long Seattle-wide initiative called "The Compassion Games." We're researching the possibility of one of our activities of the Student Rally connecting with this initiative. If you have time and/or interest to read about this, please see the following website http://www.compassionateseattle.org/profiles/blogs/2012-compassion-games-survival-of-the-kindest

We may try to register Kaleidoscope as a partner in this initiative. Surely compassion is a value we all uphold and esteem! Kaleidoscope is registered as a Nazarene Compassion Ministry Center! You can follow our progress on our Facebook page “Kaleidoscope, a gathering place for multicultural learning”. We need to do a website for Kaleidoscope, but haven’t had the time (or funds) yet!

Please let us know if you are planning to come to the rally.

Scotts
mmscott@kaleidoscopegatheringplace.com