RELOAD Miami
October 4, 2008

Miami Shores Presbyterian Church
602 NE 96th Street
Miami, FL 33138

“Celebrating 20 Years of Training Youth Leaders in South Florida Through the Urban Youth Workers’ Seminar and Reload Events”

Speaker
Harvey Carey, Citadel of Faith Covenant Church, Detroit, MI

Worship
WDMEC Praise and Worship Team

Workshops
• 2020 Vision For Schools: Transforming Public Education Within A Single Generation Of Students taught by Skip Long, YouthLink / FCFC
• Discipleship: An Effective Method of Mentoring Urban Youth taught by Dr. Tommy Carrington, Urban Training Network
• Rev Up Your Bible Teaching: How to Counter a Culture that Would Rather Watch TV than Listen to You taught by David Lopez, YouthLink / FCFC
• Jump Starting Your Youth Ministry: Planning for Success taught by Kingsley Grant, Helping Families Improve enseñado en español cerca Gil Contreras, S.E.E.D. Urban Ministries
• Core Values of a Youth Worker: Laying a Foundation for Ministry taught by Robert Brooks, Second Baptist Church
• Teen Leadership Track (for high school students only) Leading From Within: Moving from Spectator to Player taught by Russell St. Bernard, The Fountain

Additional Workshops
• Porn’s Not for Pansies
This workshop will teach you how to arm your students, their parents, and yourself with weapons that can free us from materials that turn healthy curiousity into an incidious habit with devastating effects mentally, socially, and spiritually. Oh, and not get fired for it. Taught by April Lovenn and Andy McDaniel, Miami Campus Life / YFC
• Sex in the Pews!
The media have targeted our youth as the prime market for selling sex. The messages don’t address the devasting consequences. Research shows that church youth are behaving the same as other youth. This workshop provides youth leaders with effective tools to train their youth stand against sexual perversion through the teaching of abstinence until marriage. taught by Marisa Wedges, Project U-Turn

Schedule
8:30am — Registration, Breakfast & Networking
9:15-10:30am — General Session – Welcome, Worship & Speaker Challenge
10:45am-12:00pm — Elective Workshops 1
12:00-12:45pm — Lunch
12:50-2:05pm — Elective Workshops 2
2:15-3:00pm — Closing Session – Giveaways, Worship, Speaker Challenge, & Corporate Prayer
3:00pm — RELOAD Ends

Local Sponsors
• Miami DeVos Urban Leadership Initiative
• Miami Shores Presbyterian Church
• Urban Training Network (UTN)
• Family & Children Faith Coalition (FCFC)

WHY: Because here in the United Sates 95 million people, one third of the nation, have housing problems including payments too large a percentage of their income, overcrowding, poor quality shelter and homelessness. Habitat for Humanity is dedicated to providing decent, affordable homes for those in need.  This does more than put a roof over someone’s head, it allows families to provide stability for their children, increases the sense of dignity and pride a family may have, improves the health, physical safety, and security of those living there, and increases the educational and job prospects of people who before didn’t even know how they were going to make it through the week.  Thus we are fighting poverty in sustainable ways.  We do this to be a tangible expression of God’s love, fleshing out shalom in our community.  In addition, all families who receive a Habitat home are presented with a Bible and a short prayer and celebration upon moving into the home as a testimony to Who is behind everything we do.

WHO: you! and anybody else interested in coming who is over 16.

WHAT: construction.  Wear sensible work clothes, CLOTHES TOED SHOES, and bring a water bottle.  Also, we are required to take a hammer, nail apron, and work gloves.  If you don’t have these and do not have the money to purchase them, let me know.  If you are willing to purchase them, we will be doing more Habitat projects in the future, so there will be opportunities to use them again!

WHEN: Saturday, September 6th.  Be at the worksite at 7:30 sharp.  Do not be late, because there is a very important orientation session at that time, and if you miss it you will not know what is going on.

WHERE: on SW 244th St. and SW 129th Ave.  I’ve attached directions.  Because I know it is a bit far, I’d like to try to arrange car pools, so email me if you are willing to drive people, or if you need a ride.  We will have a short meeting on Sunday to figure this all out.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions, and please let me know 1) if you cannot bring your own tools, and 2) whether you can offer or will be needing a ride.

We are collecting backpacks for Haiti. A basic backpack with basic school supplies, no paper please because of the weight. Also an opportunity to sponsor a kid in Haiti for school. The cost for that is $35.00 per student for the year.

We are off to a great start at the new location. Last sunday we had our first meeting at the school gym as most of you know. We had 65 adults in attendance….wow… thank you to all of you who have commissioned yourselves to help set up and tear down… we really need it.

If any of you can, we do set up between 8:30am and 10am. We can use anyone’s help with the set up. If that is too early, we also need help with the tear down after the service. We are trying  to structure it  so that  different people are handling the different times. “Many hands make work easy…” so say the Amish.

We are really excited about all of the possibilities this new location will present. It is an exciting time for all of us. If any of you would like to bring some food, a dessert or an entree, we want to encourage you to do so. In the future we will be setting up tables in the court yard outside for everyone to hang out.

God is raising up a great movement of the gospel right here in Miami, and you, Mosaic, are at it’s flaming center.

For you, O LORD, have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before the LORD in the land of the living.

— Psalm 116

Pray that God’s people would know Him, and the provision of His ways God would stir up a hunger for the gospel within the city. He would use mosaic to accomplish His purposes. We would be faithful, to God, to one another, to our destiny. Souls would be saved and lives would be changed in Jesus name.

As you know Mosaic Church is on the move. We will be meeting in our new location,
5801 Augusto St, Miami, FL 33146, August 17, 2008 at 11 am.

We will be needing help to move this week, on Tuesday, August 19th. There will be some furniture up-for-grabs on tuesday, we have to be out of the building completely by the 19th.

We also need some set-up and tear-down volunteers for Sunday Morning. Set-up volunteers would have to arrive by 8:30 am, and tear-down volunteers would help after the service.

We will be at the school this Wednesday, August 6, from 11 am to 2pm doing walk thru. If any of you would like to come by and see, you are welcome to do so.

For more information you can call Shari: (305) 433-0163

Please pray with us:
1. God would make the transition smooth
2. Provide the leadership and faithfulness of the people to commit to His work
3. That God would stir up a hunger for the gospel in the city
4. Open doors in the hearts of people and draw many unto Himself
5. Give birth to a powerful movement within the city and the colleges
6. The community of Mosaic to be the catalyst and the flaming center of the movement.

The job of the peacemaker is to stop war, to purify the world, to get it saved from poverty and riches, to heal the sick, to comfort the sad, to wake up those who have not yet found God, to create joy and beauty wherever you go, to find God in everything and in everyone.

- Muriel Lester
(1884-1968)

We do not detach ourselves from things in order to attach ourselves to God, but rather we become detached from ourselves in order to see and use all things in and for God.

- Thomas Merton
New Seeds of Contemplation

We need 3 volunteers to join the MosaicKids team and commit to being on the schedule one sunday a month. Call or Email Megan, 321-704-2166.

I just wanted to follow-up Julie’s announcement today with a short email about the immigrant children we are hoping to serve.

More than half of the world’s refugees are children. Many flee to the United States to escape violence, neglect, and poverty; others are trafficked into the country for labor and sexual exploitation. Untold numbers of children try to enter the US every year without a parent or guardian. According to the March 2007 Congressional Research Service Report to Congress, approximately 90,000 children were turned away at the border or immediately deported in 2006. Nearly 8,000 unaccompanied children apprehended by authorities were placed into federal custody. Those who have passed undetected and are without valid immigration documents live in the shadows of society, with little hope of becoming legal residents.

The majority of the children in federal custody are from Latin America, between the ages of 13 and 17, and speak Spanish and/or an indigenous language. Miami, FL is the location of two of the detention centers that house unaccompanied immigrant minors after immigration officials apprehend them. There are several agencies that provide social and legal services to these children during their time in detention, but most often than not the children are left with very little recreational and artistic activities throughout the day, especially during the summer.

Please consider signing up to work with this “un-reached” population by serving with your gifts and talents.
To sign up email Leslie at lamartinez1225@gmail.com

Host: Raul & Rachel Justiniano
Location: The Blanco’s Rooftop – 5100 SW 82 Ave, Miami, FL 33155 US
When: Friday, July 25, 7:30PM
Phone: 305.772.7881

Last time we did this, we had such a great time that we are doing it again! Join us this Friday, July 25 at 7:30 p.m. for a movie on the Rooftop. If you can come let us know and recommend a movie to watch in your comment. We will have several movies from the best suggestions and on Friday night we’ll take a vote on the movie we’ll watch. We’ll be providing drinks, NACHOS, and ice cream sundaes. The movie will start at 8:00. Bring the kids and feel free to invite friends! We hope to see you there! Don’t forget to suggest a movie in your comment!!