Diane Hawthorne tells about a special ministry by Union Baptist Church in Orange. They run a Soup Kitchen and have a Youth Night twice per month, age restrictive. Children in the area get to spend time with church members, playing games and learning how to pray over your food and be thankful for those who stop to listen to them. Diane would like to know about other ministries in inner-city churches and how to bring in the little lambs.
First Baptist Cranford/Elizabeth is doing great work with refugees from Myanmar/Burma. They have ESL classes, help out with apartment hunting and donations of household needs, plus mentor them on finding their way in the American system of life. If your church has a special ministry like these, please send it in to be published. This is something we can take pride in “copying.”
First Baptist Church of Westfield recently had a women’s weekend retreat at Stella Maris Retreat Center, Long Branch. It is directly on Ocean Avenue and the Atlantic Ocean. We “copied Candy’s game about the Purse-anality. Our retreat leader was Rev. Mayra Castaneda, a recent Annual Conference participant. Mayra is currently the interim pastor at Penns Neck Church, Princeton. I highly recommend both Mayra and Stella Maris Retreat Center if you are planning a retreat.
A year ago, Candy Papieredin sent me a most interesting result of conference 2007. Candy received a letter from Joyce Weigand of Central Baptist Church, Millville about how their Women’s Group took the lead from our conference workshop to make puppets. They sent them to Broken Arrow Bible Ranch in Glendale, Ariz.. As Candy says, “Planting the seed is what it is all about; ‘Plant the seed’ and trust the Lord to do the rest.” – Jean Kellogg, Good News editor 
