Alabaster Offering Collection
Upcoming Offering Date:
Sunday, February 23, 2025
Collecting coins to build around the world.
You may also give online: www.HermNaz.Church/Give -- Be sure to select the"Alabaster" drop-down fund.
Alabaster has a long history in the Nazarene Church, where churches collect coins that are used for buildings & properties around the world, including:
• Purchase a property or church building
• Purchase or build a church parsonage
• Build a church building
• Convert a property into a church gathering space
• Meet initial costs to rent a church meeting space for a limited period
• Purchase or build missionary homes
• Purchase or build regional or field missions facilities
• Build or repurpose buildings on Bible college campuses
Global Week of Prayer
Pray with us! The Church of the Nazarene’s Global Week of Prayer is March 2-8, 2025.
Nazarene Missions International invites the global Church to pray for the needs of our churches and districts around the world, focusing on a different region each day.
PRAYER GUIDE - click the button above
May this week be a sacred time as WE serve as global missions advocates—nurturing a spirit of missions and mobilization, impacting people around the world. Thank you for praying with our larger global church family!
During the week, remember and keep our “LINKS Missionaries” in prayer: Tim & Michelle Eby, serving South Africa. More about the Eby’s unique journey this year is explained on our app and website.
When the Church gathers, miracles happen and God works.
We encourage you to pray with and for those around the world—often, but especially during the Global Week of Prayer.
Nazarene Missions International invites the global Church to pray for the needs of our churches and districts around the world, focusing on a different region each day.
PRAYER GUIDE - click the button above
May this week be a sacred time as WE serve as global missions advocates—nurturing a spirit of missions and mobilization, impacting people around the world. Thank you for praying with our larger global church family!
During the week, remember and keep our “LINKS Missionaries” in prayer: Tim & Michelle Eby, serving South Africa. More about the Eby’s unique journey this year is explained on our app and website.
When the Church gathers, miracles happen and God works.
We encourage you to pray with and for those around the world—often, but especially during the Global Week of Prayer.
Needs & Serving
OFFER or RECEIVE assistance with daily or seasonal tasks.
If you need assistance OR can offer your skillset, let us know! Click the button above.
Examples: help with child care, yard work, cleaning, bills & clerical work, transportation, etc.
Meal Train
Helping HermNaz families with meals when there's a crisis.
Care Packs & Backpacks of Love
Take some to give away.
Included: toiletry items, soaps, razors & shaving cream, hand warmers, socks, hand sanitizer, feminine products. The Backpacks of Love also include a pair of socks, hand warmers, some canned food goods, and laundry pods.
Take some to give away to those you see on city streets or keep for yourself if you need it to get by.
If they aren't set out on a Sunday morning, call the office and request some!
Included: toiletry items, soaps, razors & shaving cream, hand warmers, socks, hand sanitizer, feminine products. The Backpacks of Love also include a pair of socks, hand warmers, some canned food goods, and laundry pods.
Take some to give away to those you see on city streets or keep for yourself if you need it to get by.
If they aren't set out on a Sunday morning, call the office and request some!
Links Missionaries
Tim & Michelle Eby
UPDATE ON THE EBYS:
After 27 years of missionary service, we will take our first sabbatical from June through August 2025. It will be good to step away from our responsibilities for these three months to renew, spend some quality time with our kids, grandkids, and parents before returning to service again in Africa. As we finish our sabbatical, we will then do our deputation tour across the USA.
PRAYER REQUESTS:
- New Jesus Film Teams for 2025. There are 370 teams in 34 countries in Africa. Pray for them as they are reaching new areas and planting new churches.
- Church planting training and the new certified trainers that will be raising up new church planting leaders across Africa.
- Countries that are currently unstable and in turmoil. Mozambique, DRC - Democratic Republic of the Congo, Niger, Burkina Faso.
- Our adult children and the challenges they are facing.
- Our 5 grandchildren, as they grow up in a unique world, and that each will choose to follow Jesus.
- Preparation for our upcoming Sabbatical (June - August 2025) and following Home Assignment (Sept - Nov 2025) . We are putting things in place for being gone for 7 months, as we will spend Christmas with our family prior to returning in 2026.
- New Jesus Film Teams for 2025. There are 370 teams in 34 countries in Africa. Pray for them as they are reaching new areas and planting new churches.
- Church planting training and the new certified trainers that will be raising up new church planting leaders across Africa.
- Countries that are currently unstable and in turmoil. Mozambique, DRC - Democratic Republic of the Congo, Niger, Burkina Faso.
- Our adult children and the challenges they are facing.
- Our 5 grandchildren, as they grow up in a unique world, and that each will choose to follow Jesus.
- Preparation for our upcoming Sabbatical (June - August 2025) and following Home Assignment (Sept - Nov 2025) . We are putting things in place for being gone for 7 months, as we will spend Christmas with our family prior to returning in 2026.
ABOUT OUR LINKS MISSIONARIES
We have been connected with our own "link" to the mission field!
Tim and Michelle Eby serve as career missionaries with the Church of the Nazarene in South Africa.
What does Links mean?
It started as the acronym L.I.N.K.S: Loving, Interested Nazarenes Knowing and Sharing. Now it's just called "Links" because the global Nazarene family is multi-lingual and the simple word "Links" can be translated into any language. We are thankful for our "links" to the mission field!
What are "Links Missionaries?"
Links is a network of personal connections between missionaries and Nazarene districts around the world. It's a way for the local church to be involved with Nazarene Missions through regular correspondence from missionaries and updates from their field of service.
We will be giving you more ways to bless and encourage the Ebys soon!
We have been connected with our own "link" to the mission field!
Tim and Michelle Eby serve as career missionaries with the Church of the Nazarene in South Africa.
What does Links mean?
It started as the acronym L.I.N.K.S: Loving, Interested Nazarenes Knowing and Sharing. Now it's just called "Links" because the global Nazarene family is multi-lingual and the simple word "Links" can be translated into any language. We are thankful for our "links" to the mission field!
What are "Links Missionaries?"
Links is a network of personal connections between missionaries and Nazarene districts around the world. It's a way for the local church to be involved with Nazarene Missions through regular correspondence from missionaries and updates from their field of service.
We will be giving you more ways to bless and encourage the Ebys soon!
The Ebys's story involved spending some time right here on our Northwest Nazarene District! Now, as we are connected with them as they serve across the world, please pray that God will give them strength, wisdom, and safety as they teach and preach the Good News of Christ in every corner of Africa.
Roger & Damaris
Missionaries in Guatemala
We have worked alongside Roger & Damaris on our work & witness trips to Honduras and Guatemala.
For information about what they've been up to, click the button above.
For information about what they've been up to, click the button above.
Rocky Heights Elementary
Adopted School
Coffee Deliveries
A way to help the office staff.
Meal Help
Inservices are great days to provide some food.
Gift for All Staff
Help coordinate Staff Gift Boxes
Volunteer
Want to help at the school?
Roberta
Missions Coordinator
How long have you been at HermNaz? We started attending in November 2021 & became members in 2022
What areas of ministry have you been/are you involved in? I have been involved in Fall Fest at HermNaz, as well as women’s ministry at my previous church.
What did you do for a career? I was a teacher. I taught 7th and 8th graders at CBMS in Umatilla for 20 years and 4th grade at MHES for 8 years.
What areas of ministry have you been/are you involved in? I have been involved in Fall Fest at HermNaz, as well as women’s ministry at my previous church.
What did you do for a career? I was a teacher. I taught 7th and 8th graders at CBMS in Umatilla for 20 years and 4th grade at MHES for 8 years.
RECAP OF PAST PROJECTS
GUATEMALA
July 2024
PROJECT: Helping build a local church that has outgrown their old building. We worked on flooring, roofing, and electrical work, as well as a Vacation Bible School for local kids.
Christmas Adopted Families
2024
HermNaz Church “adopted” 10 families currently residing at “Martha’s House.” We have a list of ways to bless these folks and give them some Christmas love & gifts. Martha’s House is a transitional housing facility for families getting back on their feet. Please consider how you would like to bless and provide cheer to these 10 local families who might not otherwise have a Merry Christmas.
Baby Bottle Fundraiser
2024
July & August 2024
Thank you for supporting Trucare Pregnancy Clinic with your loose coins, cash, and checks this summer!
You donated over $1,100!
All of these funds raised go to help local families through a variety of Trucare's services, including parenting classes, ultrasounds, and pregnancy tests.
Thank you for supporting Trucare Pregnancy Clinic with your loose coins, cash, and checks this summer!
You donated over $1,100!
All of these funds raised go to help local families through a variety of Trucare's services, including parenting classes, ultrasounds, and pregnancy tests.
Breakfast Food Drive
2024
THANK YOU for your donations for our Breakfast Food Drive! Our local shelter, Stepping Stones Alliance, was very thankful and said our donations were exactly what they needed.
Stay tuned for other upcoming local projects.
Thank you for your help with this project.
-- Roberta and Local Mission
Stay tuned for other upcoming local projects.
Thank you for your help with this project.
-- Roberta and Local Mission
Family Serve Day
2023
Taking a Sunday morning and serving our community. The day included yard work, making soup for a local shelter, and preparing toiletry-filled backpacks for those in need.
Socks & Undies Drive
Christmas 2022
Collecting new socks & undies for those in need in our community.
Honduras 2022
Watch the recap video! Click the video!
Diaper Dash 2022
Mission to Others
Recap 2021
Assembly Backpacks, sorting shoes, and serving food.
Read the recap by clicking above.
Read the recap by clicking above.
Christmas Water Project
2021
We adopted Asia for Christmas 2021!
HermNaz raised funds for 116 Clean Water Wells in Asia.
We were certainly blown away! Read the recap below by clicking the button.
