Minutes for the district council meeting of Nazarene Mission International for North Central Ohio District Church of the Nazarene.

1. NORTH CENTRAL OHIO DISTRICT
Minutes
The North Central Ohio District NMI Council met at 5:30 pm on Thursday, February 10, at Bueler’s Old Mill
Restaurant in Ashland. The following council members were present: Kathy Pelley, Sharron Sankovich, Alice
Traylor, Kenna Williams, Sheila Burrows, Mary Shaffer, Kathy Greenich,.
The following council members were not present Judy Bean, Deb Boquist, Elaine Gray, Susan Kuglin, Gloria
McNew, Joanna Pelley, Grace Pelley, Vicki Champer, Bob & Donna Hebets, Tim & Connie Sharrock, Meghan
Champer Cooke, Jessica Dawes, Kristen Batten Chuck & Joanne Nicholson.
Others present: Ivan Beatty, Pat Martin(Ashland CON NMI president), Stephen Zirkle(NCO NYI president).
At 5:45 pm, Ivan prayed for the meal and the council relaxed, enjoying the fellowship of one another.
At 6:45 pm, Kathy Pelley opened the meeting by distributing the agenda. She also announced that she received
a letter from Ted Esseltyn indicating that due to Joan’s health issues she needs to resign from the council.
Please continue to be in prayer for Ted and Joan.
Other prayer requests were:
• Matthew, Carrie and Libby Ward and all the extended family.
• Steve and Thais Ward for wisdom, strength and perserverance in this time of family stress as well as all
the stress associated with district pastorship and leading NCO.
• Mary Shaffer’s grandson has experience another break. Please pray for him.
• Churches in transition, especially Mike and Kathy not only due to the transition with CLE Victory but
also with learning to help their youngest adjust.
• Our special friends in China have struggled with some severe health issues. Please keep them all in your
prayers.
• SNU student CR is interning this summer in LA, while her brother CR is preparing to attend NYC in
Louisville, KY as part of the MK district.
Business:
30 Hour Famine
The following have been confirmed:
• Location is Bedford
• Andy Batten is to speak to the teens on Friday.
• Heaventrain service project is planned for Sat.

2. • A representative from Children’s Hunger Alliance is planned to speak to the teens on the HT bus during
the lunch hours for other volunteers.
• Justin Smith from NYI council is leading Tribe Haiti.
Still in progress:
Impact role in 30 hr famine—maybe lead worship, maybe their mission service weekend.
Who is available to help? Contact Kathy asap.
Stephen recommended not having spaghetti since his experience shows that students may not be able to handle
such a heavy meal after fasting for so long. Sandwich rings suggested? Any other suggestion?
Current draft of the schedule:
FRIDAY:
5:30 PM - Registration (North Foyer)
6:00 PM - Tribe Game (Gym)
7:30 PM - Worship (Sanctuary - maybe IMPACT Team???)
8:30 PM - Andy speaks & shares (Mike & Joanna Pelley will have returned from Haiti, so we may have them
share too).
10:00 PM - open gym, games, separate sleep areas for guys & gals, movie (the Ultimate Gift)
SATURDAY:
9:00 AM - Juice is served
10:00 AM to 4 p.m. - Heaventrain Ministries
4:30 or 5 PM - Debriefing
5:30 PM - Supper at Bedford in Gym?
Discussion was held on do we encourage the individual churches to register on their own or all register under
the district NYI. Problem that has occurred is country of focus. World Vision originally confirmed that our
funds were heading to Haiti. Then there was a problem with getting the NCO NYI donation website up and
running because of some type of technical problem between NCM and World vision. At this point World
vision indicated that because we were Nazarene our funds are automatically designated for Malawi. Then NCM
indicated that yes that is an option but not mandatory we could designate our funds to go to the World Vision
Haiti. We just needed to realize that if we do there would be no NCM connection. World vision however
hasn’t confirmed that this is true on their end.
So Stephen is going to communicate to the youth pastors/leaders that all funds collected by the youth of the
individual churches will be handled by the individual churches. They may choose where to send their funds
either my register online with World Vision and allowing their funds to head to Malawi, or having their church
treasurer send the funds to either the NCM Haiti Water Project or Haiti Earthquake Relief through our
Nazarene Global Treasury or online at www.ncm.org. The focus of the NCO NYI 30 hour famine though will
be Haiti and Cleveland.
A short discussion was held about advertising at the upcoming talent/sport
BLAST at Wooster. Kathy Greenich volunteered set up a table and to help
distribute the additional 150 student kits World vision has sent us. Stephen
will make sure there is a table available for Kathy.
Convention
Speaker Rev. Monty Cyr :

3. Caribbean Youth Ministries Coordinator since 2006—Monte Cyr serves with his wife Bethany as Global
Missionaries for the Church of the Nazarene on the Caribbean Region, specifically in the area of youth
ministries. They currently live in Miami, Florida, where Monte serves out of the Regional Office as the
Regional Youth Ministries Coordinator since July 2006. Before coming to the Caribbean, Monte served in the
same role on the Africa Region from October 1998 until July 2006.
Besides serving on the Regional level, Monte has been active in the Global NYI leadership and Global NYI
Council since 2001. He has just finished serving as the Global NYI President from 2005-2009, during which he
travelled world-wide ministering to and with youth and leaders.
Monte graduated from Northwest Nazarene University with a B.A. in Religion in 1986. He received his Master
of Divinity Degree from Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri in 1990. Monte was a full
time Youth Pastor from 1990 until their Missionary appointment in 1998 at Kansas City First Church and Boise
First Church of the Nazarene.
Monte shares that God has called his family to invest their time, energies, and lives into the youth and youth
leaders of the Caribbean. He has a passion for leadership development, and loves investing his life into the lives
of young leaders.
Monte and Bethany have four children: Robb (18), Amy (16), Bryan (14), and Nkele (9). His hobbies include
spending time with his family, scuba diving, playing basketball, maintaining a salt-water aquarium in his home,
and learning to play the guitar.
Still needed:
Worship? Stephen suggested not using impact since leadership will be changing and they may not be ready at
that point yet to perform. Kathy suggested the Sandusky Youth Worship team, someone else suggested
highlighting youth talent from BLAST. Any other ideas—send to Kathy!
Short discussion on how to do ballots and the consensus that we could do it before the convention at table like
the youth did for their ballots last year and like we all do when voting in our representative churches. WE DO
NEED NAMES for TELLERS, GREETERS, BALLOT workers. Send ideas to Kathy.
WE ALSO NEED NAME for POTENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR THE BALLOT. Send ideas to Kathy so she
has them for the May executive council meeting.
Do we have 2 offerings or only 1 offering? Any preference.
Discussed the time of the convention. Magic Mountain is still scheduled the night before. Can we have a
brunch? Probably not, interferes with Pioneer. How about 10 to 12 and then again 1-3. No food if we do this
time. Stephen and Kathy will run the ideas by the Assembly/Convention Planning team and get back to us.
Sun Valley will have an exhibition table.
Work & Witness Update
Feb 13- March 1. 10 team members left in the very early morning of Feb 13.
W&W Coordinator/Project Superintendent: David Restrick (from Ohio), and his wife Rhoda from England
Team Worksite Forman: Carlos Bauza from Argentina. He is here for this project with his wife and three
daughters

4. NCO Team Coordinators: Tim and Connie Sharrock, members of Mount Vernon First Church.
Mikel Norris, retired pastor, former pastor of MV First
Don Beecher, from Ashland Church of the Nazarene
Nancy Ritterbach, from Fremont Church
Juan and Eva Vega, from Bedford Church of the Nazarene. Juan is originally from Puerto Rico and Eva is from
Mexico.
Bob and Vivian McMillan, from MV First.
Kevin Hughes, from MV First
Follow their activity at their blog, http://ncoinmozambique.blogspot.com/ or simply like the North Central
Ohio NMI Facebook page and get it automatically sent to your FB news feed.
Children’s Mission Day Update
Approximately $6500 raised at this point for Heaventrain.
New project is Haiti Water Project.
Check out the pics, video and helpful resources at North Central Ohio NMI FB pg.
Deputation
Links family—Jeff & Susan Myers from Papua New Guinea are scheduled for a district tour June.
Dwight and Caroline Rich from Ecuador is scheduled for a district tour in May.
The Potters have a Sunday EVENING May 29 available, if interested and still available.
Linda Braeden from Africa is available in June.
2012 confirmed district tour: Stephanie Doenges from Papua New Guinea in May.
Contact Vicki Champer for details and our questions about scheduling.
For the good of the order:
• See you at Buelers on May 19.
Kathy Pelley closed our meeting in prayer around 8:40 pm.
Respectfully Submitted,
Sharron K. Sankovich
NCO District NMI Secretary