Needed: Baristas The FMBC Koffee Haus needs barista-wannabes to serve up special coffee drinks on Sunday mornings. You are only responsible to serve one 2-hour shift per month. Contact Cathy Law for details, 260-6001.

Church Family Nights The Winter schedule is out for Church Family Nights. You can find more information HERE.

Youth Horizons: Teaching Couple Youth Horizons has a position open for a Family Teaching couple. Interested parties may contact Debra Lee at debra@youthhorizons.net or 262-8293.

Live Life on Purpose Perspectives is a dynamic 15-week course that will deeply influence your way of looking at the world around you. Over 65,000 people have taken Perspectives in North America alone and each year it is held in 200 locations. Rev. Billy Graham said "Nothing I know will inform and motivate Christians for world evangelism like Perspectives". The Outreach Team would like to provide a scholarship for anyone from FMBC who would like to take the course. This course meets on Monday nights, Jan. 12-May 4 at Word of Life Church, and is available for graduate or undergraduate credits from a local college/university or just to audit. ACSI teachers and nurses in KS can get credits for taking this class. Questions, see www.perspectives.org or call Jana Hildebrandt at 722-5885.

Short-term Missions Opportunities Looking for an opportunity to do missions work short term? check out the Missions webpage for more info!

Can you help us go to Mexico? Mexico '09 In a few weeks, 14 people from our church family will travel to Baja, Mexico for one week to serve in a Christian orphanage and mission. Would you partner with us by contributing toward a mission trip expense? For more information about where we are going, go to www.ffhm.org. Donations can be put in the offering bag (memo line: Mexico). We appreciate your support as we serve the Lord this January. Team members: Will/Hope Just, Lauren Means, Buffy/Marlynn Branam, Courtney Kersten, Pam Voth, Steve/Janice Fast, Kristina Sims, Kore Lipholdt, Gene/Jana/Bryan Hildebrandt • Hotel rooms in San Diego, $125 each room/night (15 needed for 1 night) • Sack lunches/water for trip into and out of Mexico, $15 per person (14 needed) • Gas for round trip for one van, $1,000 per van (2 needed) • "Night out on us" for orphanage house parents (we babysit for them and they get a night off), $20 for 2 houses • Meal at local restaurant in Vicente Guerrero for team and mission staff on last evening, $250 Any funds received that are above our travel needs will be given to the orphanage for ministry needs. Questions, contact Jana Hildebrandt at ihildebrandt@firstmbchurch.com "Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for the orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt us." James 1:27 NLT

Soles4Africa (Sending Over Love with Every Shoe) A group of NWHS students visited Africa on a missions trip and noticed that the people there were exposed to parasites because they had no shoes to protect their feet. They came home and started a service project that is collecting and sending new and slightly used shoes which will be distributed in Ghana, Africa. If you would like to donate shoes, just drop them in the collection box in the hallway by the mailboxes during the month of December.

Buddies for Kids with Special Needs Volunteer buddies are needed during 2nd and 3rd Sunday school hours as well as substitute buddies. Buddies assist and help as needed in the Sunday school room with children with special needs. Experience is not needed. Training will be provided based on individual needs of the child. Please, contact Mary Hadley at 773-6962 if you are interested or have further questions.

Adult Life Groups Would you like to develop some closer friendships with others who are part of our church? We have a variety of Life (small) Groups that you can join - Couples, Mixed, Singles. We have some openings for young adult couples in a life group led by John and Deidra Cramer. You may contact them at 218-5852 or dcramer@gsi-graphics.com. We have a New Life Group on Wednesdays at the Stephens' house at 10311 Westport. They'll meet from 7:00-8:45 pm and will discuss the Sunday sermon and how we can apply it to our lives. For more information on this group call Jeff or Margaret Stukey at 722-0112. For more information on other groups contact Steve Fast at sfast@firstmbchurch.com, or Craig Jost at craigi@mbmsi.org, We'll help you get plugged in!

Prayer Ministry The Prayer Ministry Team would like to provide prepared "prayer ushers," or intercessors, who would be available to pray with individuals requesting prayer at Sunday worship services. Is God calling you to this ministry of ushering someone to the throne of grace to receive His blessing and provision, and to seek His glory? Orientation and support will be given to prayer ushers. Call Marilyn McNeil, 722-3273, or Bob Bushnell, 722-7113, for more information or to express interest.