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Business BlastSeptember 2007
How fitting for Mephibosheth to take Agape' Therapeutic Riding Center for the Business Blast! Our day program baked a delicious "dump" cake to share God's Love with a deserving business that has given so much to the individuals we serve. Every participant took part in the baking...anywhere from directing us by reading the recipe (making sure we didn't leave anything out!), "dumping" the ingredients into the cake pan, stirring, cutting the butter...etc. We made cards by stamping a "horse" on the outside with our faithful "You've been served" labels. As soon as the cake was done, we all piled into the car and made our surprise delivery...of course when we pulled up, they thought they forgot to put us on the schedule! What a surprise it was for them to get dessert during their lunch meeting. We discovered just how hard it is to receive when you are used to giving...they wanted us to join them. We decided to take a walk and check out their new waterfall featureon grounds instead. Of course Chuck thinks we are all crazy and in his words have gone back to "Little House on the Prairie" when everyone shared with each other, but isn't that what God has called us to do?
Read about Kip's Trip to Dunamis Ranch and the White Mountain Apache Tribe in ArizonaApril 2007 |
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Isn't this a fantastic photo of the Colts team praying after the Super Bowl win? Pastor Tim wondered if it was possible to have KIP represented...but of course it is!!!
Kip delivered DVDs to the Hamilton North Public Library (get info on the DVD Drive)
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People made good use of the leftover pumpkins. Pastor Steven greeted Evelyn Ziegler at Harbour Manor Nursing Home, and left pumpkins for the nursing staff. Pastor Doug Wiggers and his wife Lisa present pumpkins to the staff at the hotel in Fishers that Lisa manages. |
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Kip in FL! |
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Kip traveled to Lakeland, Florida helping raise funds to send Jean Medonic's niece, Jennifer, and her daughters, Makenzie and Breanna, to New York for treatment of Chairi Malformation (the base fo the brain bulges into the spinal canal). All three suffer from the symptoms of this disorder and they eagerly look forward to the trip to New York in November to meet with a specialist. Breanna is holding Kip and her favorite tiger. |
The McGill Home Fellowship decided they would compile a list of names of elderly members or attenders or just individuals in the neighborhood who are either shut in or have limited mobility or people contact, and that we would prepare baskets (actually, bags) for them of things that would include things to eat and enjoy, just small things, and then we would deliver the baskets, which we did. Those I spoke with had a wonderful report of the response of the recipients, most of which were older people who used to be regular attenders, or are simply neighbors in our community. |
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Hamilton County Humane Society - Lunch is Served! |
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Dudley and Sarah Senefeld, Shirley and Bill Carter, Jeff and Chris Meyer, Marie Mosbaugh all shared in taking lunch to the Hamilton County Humane Society on 10/18/06. We had to fight not to bring home some of the most cute kitties. It was fun but hard to see all the animals in the shelter. (Take a look at the kittens in the enlargement of the middle picture!) |
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Cookies & Prayer Shaws |
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Tuesday afternoon Women’s Bible Study: (l to r): Pam Conder, Nancy Plummer, Sharon Knapp, Judy Jenkins, Karen McDole. Not pictured: Sharon Piper, Becky Moore. We made three trays of homemade goodies such as cookies, brownies, and breads and presented them to three different places. Nancy Plummer was our person who delivered the items with her husband Jim Plummer. The first big tray went to Indiana Cancer Center and was left for staff, patients, and their families. One of the doctors later asked Nancy about the tray and said he really liked the labels on them about being served by Cicero Christian Church. Another tray was delivered to Riverview Hospital Cardiac waiting room and the lady at the reception desk was delighted with the treats. The final tray was given to the staff that work in the Cardiac Care Unit while Paul Settles was a patient there. All trays were received with excitement. Becky Moore came up with the idea of prayer shaws. We made our first prayer shaw and it was given to Betty Widows who is suffering from cancer. We all prayed over the shaw that Nancy Plummer made and Sharon presented it to Betty Widows. Betty was thrilled and said she gets so chilled during the cold weather and will use it to help keep her warm. Our group is excited about helping others and we find we have a special place in our hearts for cancer patients and heart patients. It seems like our prayer chain is always filled with church members asking for prayers for family, friends, and co-workers who suffer from these diseases. |
Sunday afternoon, October 8 (a beautiful day that the Lord made!) young and old from the 10:20 upper room Community Gathering had a wonderful time hanging out for Jesus. In 45 minutes they hung 230 door hangers informing our community of the 4 free events we are offering them in CCC has handed out over 1700 of these publicity flyers! |
Men's Breakfast |
New Baby |
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Kip can get up really early in the morning! He joined (from left to right) Jim Johnson, John Knapp and Bill Carter and cooked for the men that meet weekly at 6am on Friday mornings. |
The KIP picture is of Jen Huss and her sister-in-law Lori Huss holding Lori's son Nicholas. Jen Made a complete dinner for the family and brought it over, of course, it was delicious. Jen and Paul took care of the baby while the rest of us ate. |
Norm Stabler and Steven Hancock are in their American Gothic pose. Joyce |
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Harbour Manor Nursing Home |
Moving Team |
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Debbie Voorhis (with Kip, left) and Joyce Hancock (far left with Harbor Manor staff) baked and delivered goodies to Harbour Manor Nursing Home. Looks like Kip has some new friends! Amy McConnell and Kim Taylor will deliver some to Summer Trace. |
Kindness was exhibited by Paul Martz, Tom Ping and Paul Huss as they assisted one of our congregation move. |
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Pastor Steve took donuts to the Post Office in Cicero. |
The small group headed up by Ben & Devon Radant bought fruit, labeled it with scripture, and placed it in the food pantry. |
The Monday evening youth prayer and fellowship group led by Barb & Buck Green purchased crayons and coloring books and donated them to the daycare children. |
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Judy Woodrow-Huss took a dozen donuts to the Street and Water department garage. The gentleman that she handed the donuts was prompted to ask what they had done to get the treats, and she responded the we appreciate the job he does and that it was from CCC. She thought she could have taken the donuts to the main office, howver, she thought that the working men should get them first as they are there each day and may be the ones to do the dirty jobs. She left the "you've been served" and "grace" cards. |
Estelee and Ken Clark used their fruit crop for a pie ministry. They grow, pick, peel and prepare the fruit and bake the pies and clean up the mess together. They package the whole pier or cut it in pieces and visit neighbors, friends, older people who have given so much of themselves in teaching or mentoring to us in years past, shut-ins, and others just home from the hospital or just to visit and say "Hi". Since Kindness in Progress began, they have visited with baked pies, cookies, soup for a friend just home from the hospital, given fresh vegetables from their garden, and prepared apples for the freezer for a neighbor whose baby was in the hospital. During the two week period, we touched 29 lives of people with pies representing the Love of God. They feel they get a blessing every time. Sewing is another way Estelee likes to show kindness for others. As part of a quilt group, she sews gowns for premie babies and makes small quilts for the police officers to give to the children in a domestic violence situation. Love is service in work clothes. |
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Arcadia & Cicero - September 9 |
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Another part of their Kindess In Progress project was to wrap candy in bags and hand out at a sporting event held at the middle school. Above (left to right): Chris Meyer, Jeff Meyer, Cathy Green, Marie Mosbaugh, Nigel Meyer and Shirley Carter show off their project. Chris and Nigel pass out the free gift showing God's love to pleasantly surprised attenders of the sporting event. You never know who you'll serve - Gino and Deb Small and their nephew Jordan Bostic got a chance to see our church family at work! |
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Tipton, September 9 |
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Mephibosheth Ministries, Inc. marched in the Tipton Pork Festival Parade in Tipton on September 9 promoting the Dash for disABILITIES on September 16. |
Who showed up with to help pass out dash for disABILITIES flyers and helped push wheelchairs? None other than Kip, helping out David Simmons! You can barely see him, but his head and part of his Kindness in Progress t-shirt is showing behind Karen McDole. Apparently when he makes public appearances, Kip avoids being teased about his purple color by appearing in his natural tan state. And if you look closely, you'll see he is wearing his well-deserved Pork Producers hat from the Indiana State Fair |
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The Pastors took this challenge seriously, too! During the week of Labor Day, in the mornings they delivered fresh donuts to several places in our community, including Cicero Utilities, Iris Rubber, Cicero Fire Station, Cicero Police Station, Hamilton Heights High School, Middle School, Primary School and Elementary School, and the Post Office. Sorry if you were trying to get fresh donuts at Village Pantry last week! In the photo, Kip is surrounded by (from left to right) Chad Allen, Tim Lueking, Steven Hancock, Bill Bergstrom and Ben Radant. |
A home fellowship have combined their Kip $20 Blast challenge monies and have purchased goats for Damou Christian Mission (Tina Eisenhower) in Haiti. Home Fellowship members are: Bob & Tomme Camp, Jim & Linda Hedges, Jan & Susan Hoch, Mike & Judy Jenkins, Rick & Vicki McGaw, Walter & Ann Morris, Ken & Cheri Newcom, Paul & Judy Settles, Richard & Betty Wilgus, and Steve & Donna Zell. (oops, this one was wrongly assigned to the elders - they did the next one) |
Looks like Kip lost his head over this one! The elders are buying flower packets and they are going to give them away free at the Atlanta Earth Festival at the end of September. A Kindness in Progress sticker will be applied. |
Noblesville - 9/4 - 9/6
Rosalia Hancock, Joyce Hancock and Richard Walsmith also baked 60 loaves! Between the two groups, they went to all six different fire stations in Noblesville and the Cicero Fire Station, and gave each firefighter one to take home to his or her family. There were enough loaves for every person on each shift. We then gave the leftover ones to our neighbors. It was a good opportunity to meet some new poeple at the fire stations, and to also talk with our neighbors. Many were surprised and pleased that we would do this, with no expectations of anything in return. |
Cicero - Sept. 7 |
Noblesville - 8/21-9/2 |
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Some of the Crosslight Christian Daycare staff went to the Cicero park at Brinton and Stringtown and painted the skate ramp, picked up weeds and trash. This is something that helped out the park crew get other things done and helped the community by beautifing the park. Top Row (l to r): Heather Dougan, Beth Lacey, Jody Boyd; Bottom Row (l to r): Jenni Roosa, Tara Gardner, Vanessa Sheller. |
Kip has been to the Laundrymat! Betty Cunningham took him there and he put quarters in several machines and left "you've been served!" cards and ready reference tracts. Kip and Betty also sent out some "thinking of you cards" and baked and delivered 3 Zucchini breads. |
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Cicero - Sept. 1 |
London, KY - August 25 & 26 |
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The schoolagers from Crosslight Christian Daycare dared to do a great and helpful KIP |
Kip helped move Pastor Chad Allen and his wife Megan from London, Kentucky to Cicero. (Left to Right) Sharon and John Knapp, Tom Ping and Kip, Robbie Ping, Paul Martz, (kneeling) Dan and Pam Conder all went down on Friday night August 25, and spent the night, then made the move on Saturday. They were greeted at the house in Cicero with several more who helped unload. |
Who knew that Kip liked to vacuum? Sharon Knapp helped prepare Chad and Megan's new home in Cicero. | ||
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Darrell Zaneski, Jay Kinder and Renee Kinder get a really little hand at the Pork Tent at the Indiana State Fair from Kip. |
Kip stopped by to give an encouraging word to the cochroaches at the races at the Indiana State fair. |
Jeff Roberts and Kip deliver a weather forecast to the Indiana State Fair attendees. |
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Take pictures of the Kindess in Progress mascot, Kip, as you perform your simple ways of showing God's love. |
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Cicero Christian Church |
The first "Trunk or Treat " took place on Tuesday, October 31, on a cool fall evening. Nearly 30 vehicles were here with at least 100 of our church family having a great time giving out candy. Many wore costumes and decorated their vehicles. There is already talk of next year: bringing portable fireplaces, having contest for best decorations and costume, and so forth. We figure at least 400 neighborhood kids got candy. 
Several members of a Community Gathering pooled their resources and filled jars with candy, decorated them for the season, and handed them out in the community, including Arni's restaurant. Those that participated included Jeff, Chris, Nigel and Joelle Meyer, Bill & Shirlty Carter, Marie Mosbaugh, Cathy Green, Sarah & Dudley Senefeld, and Janet Bangs. Above (left to right): Cathy Green painstakingly cleans a jar. Shirley Carter holds down the decorative cover while Chris Meyer secures it with a ribbon. The finished product. Shirley, Chris, a lucky recipient, and Cathy perform their simple act of kindess at Arni's. 
Another Community Gathering group accepted the challenge! Kip knows how to cook fantastic banana bread! Clarence and Kathy Rudd; Jon, Emily and Leah Croke; Eddie Rudd; Sharon Allman and Willie Ogden worked together on Labor Day and made 49 loaves of banana bread. They cut them in half, then wrapped each half-loaf. They enclosed in each one a "Kindess in Progress" card, a "You Are Served" card and a scripture written on a piece of paper. 
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