Regional Echo Conference

Hello MidNorth Region Brethren
(Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Missouri, Michigan & Minnesota),

Greetings of God's love and mercy!

Our Regional Echo Conference has just officially been set. Below are the details:

Date: Saturday, October 8, 2016

Venue: St. Zachary Church - Gymnasium (same as last year's)

Conference Fee: $15 only - inclusive of Lunch 
(kids 8 to 12 - $5 / kids below 8 are free)

Program:

7:30 - 8:30 - Light breakfast (bagels, donuts, coffee)

8:30 - 9:00 - Rosary

9:00 - 9:30 - Worship

9:30 - 9:45 - Welcome

9:45 - 10:45 - Talk #1 "A Merciful God"

10:45 - 11:45 - Talk #2 "Mercy to Others"

11:45 - 12:00 - Sharer

12:00 - 1:30 - Lunch - Lunch - Lunch

1:30 - 1:45 - Gathering Song

1:45 - 2:30 - LCSC Pillars

2:30 - 3:30 - Talk #3 "Mercy to the World"

3:30 - 4:00 - Praisefest

4:00 - End of Conference

There is a 5:00pm Anticipated Mass at St. Zachary Church.

Also we will have Kids Watch, just like last year.

Early evening - SG bro Frank Padilla, wife Sis Gerry and our Country Servant bro Ed Yamba 
will fly immediately to New Jersey for the East Region Echo Conference the next day

Brothers and sisters, many where not able to attend the Conference Cruise last month.

This is the best time to hear all the talks once again from the conference. 
Let us really make sure we and the rest of our members all attend and be blessed.
As our theme for this Conference say in Ephesians 2:4 - He is "Rich in Mercy".

God bless,

bBarber Rabor

MidNorth Regional Coordinator

p.s. 
Area Servants, please forward and really invite your membership

for Illinois area - bRene please forward as well.

Thank you!

Area Updates

Hello brothers and sisters,

I know at least half, if not most of our membership in our area don't have or don't use social media (i.e. facebook, instagram, etc..).. where we post almost instantly current activities in our community. And that is okay, just doing things old school.

So allow me to share to you once again some major developments that we have very recently in our area.. through this email.

LIVE LIFE & LIVE PURE MOVEMENT

At least another half of us were not able to attend the LCSC Pillars training we had over the weekend. As previously announced, we had 2 Full-time Workers from the Philippines who are going all over the United States right now presenting and promoting LIVE LIFE & LIVE PURE Movement.

Needless to say, their presentations as expected, were very current, relevant and very exciting. Hence, we immediately talked to some of the parishes here and offered specifically Live Pure to be given to the Youth of their Churches. Here's what transpired:

St. Isaac Jogues Parish in Morton Grove

We presented to head pastor Fr. Mario and Fr. Carlos. They were very excited and affirmed they could definitely use this program. They are just adjusting as the new pastor and new associate pastor of this parish. They said they will call me really soon.

St. Stephens Catholic Church in Des Plaines

We spoke with head pastor Fr. Noel and Fr. Ronald. They totally embraced our Live Pure program. We will conduct the different Live Pure Forums to their confirmandis on Oct. 15, 22, and 29. Probably this will be the first Parish in the USA to utilize our Live Pure Movement.

St. Catherine Laboure in Glenview

We spoke with head pastor Fr. Maina, though he had initial concerns with the two different existing CFCs, he was also excited to have Live Pure given to his Parish Youth Camp on January 2017.

St. Francis of Assisi in Bolingbrook

Through bRuben and bLu Coson, head pastor Fr Herb agrees also to have our Live Pure given to the Youth of their Parish.

St. Lambert Parish in Skokie

Though head pastor Fr. Simon wasn't really very excited yet when I spoke to him at Church about Live Pure when I presented to him (he only gave me 3minutes to explain).. but when some of his Youth leaders attended the Live Pure presentation of Ina in Bolingbrook, they were very excited and said they will personally convince their Parish Youth leader to have it given in their parish. I'm pretty sure this time we will now have a thorough Live Pure presentation also with Fr. Simon.

We are also currently setting appointments to different Catholic Schools and offer these Live Pure Forums to their confirmandis.

Brothers and sisters, truly the Spirit is moving with us so please schedule an appointment to your own parishes and let us know. We are very excited to present our Live Pure Movement to them.

Also, very important, on a different note, our Area bank account was hacked a few days ago, someone stole some $5000 from our account and we haven't fully paid yet our final bill for the SFL Conference. But God is good we got back every single dollar of it yesterday. Hence, we have now a new bank account number. So for those of you depositing your tithes directly to our old account number, it has been closed already. We have a new bank account number now. So please call our Area Treasurer bFerdie (630-981-7558) as soon as possible to get the correct account number to deposit to.

By the way, we also have a special visitor from the Philippines who will give a teaching to our Handmaids this Saturday at St. Lambert Parish in Skokie from 1:00 to 6:00pm. She is sMenchie Donato. She is also a full-time pastoral worker from the Philippines serving the HFLs. She just came from Europe.

Please save the date also for our Regional Echo Conference on October 8th. Our SG bro Frank Padilla and our Country Servant bro Ed Yamba will be here to give the talks. Details will follow.

And lastly, we will have the CFCFFL Annual Top Servants Gathering on October 28 to 30here in Chicago. Details will also to follow. We will be needing your support and service once again on this 3day semi-conference.

God bless you all.

-bBarber Rabor

area servant
8472195412

barberr2@gmail.com