On…

Love:

Communion with God:

Inspiration of the Bible:

Purity:

Doctrine of God:

Answered Prayer:

Creation:

And solutions for the Fall of Man??:

In review of 2009, it was a very busy year full of growth. With your financial gifts, we helped to equip almost 900 students, parents, leaders and Pastors with a Biblical Worldview on issues of youth sexuality through our ANSR, A New Sexual Revolution event. Hundreds of teens texted us with questions and even today we continue to provide them with help. We hope, with His provision, we will be able to improve and organize this event every other year.

theConnection also had the privilege of helping 30 Christian schools to collaborate in two different events. In Harrisburg and Lancaster, we pioneered the now annual CEO, Christian Education Options fair. Together those events brought out over 500 parents looking for answers. Each school has prospective families because of the event.

We have spent an immense amount of time building our new website and theConnection’s network of Churches, Christian School and Organizations. If you haven’t visited the website recently, you’ll surely want to see the evidence of hundreds of hours of work and the beginning Central PA collaboration taking place.

We are very thankful to Peter and Jill Stein for faithfully hosting theConnection’s monthly prayer meetings. This past year we’ve learned four things; we can’t do everything at once, we can’t do them alone, eventually we’ll need to get a paycheck to continue, the Lord is sovereign, opening and shutting the right doors (flexibility).

What, then, is on the agenda for 2010? Exciting things! In a step of faith, Dan has moved his seminary schedule to part time. The plan is to start area gatherings for Pastors and Ministry leaders. Getting them together for prayer, purposeful fellowship and facilitating conversations of needs. Our vision continues to be to serve and create a strong bond in the body of Christ also through its leaders, helping one another to see each other as fellow believers and neighbors, and ultimately facilitating more Christian community collaboration.

We are currently entrenched in the planning of two events. ACSI, the Association of Christian Schools came to us asking to help them with an Economic Summit for Christian School Leaders. We agreed and this will take place on March 25th. Our main event for the year is the Shepherd Press East Coast Authors Conference. It is titled, Rejuvenating the Gospel in Your Marriage and Family. Dr. Tedd Tripp, Dr. Dave Harvey and 5 other authors will help equip our community and show the practical implications of the Gospel in this area.

Thank you again for your support. Please continue to pray for theConnection Ministries and our mission to serve Central PA’s Christian community with collaborative events and to develop the most distinguished network of co-laboring Churches, Christian Organizations and Schools. If you know others who would be willing to help support this needed mission right here in our own backyards, please pass along our information.

Dear Ministry Friends:

It’s finally here! This week we’re pleased to present our refreshed brand identity and web home to theConnection friends and supporters. We’re interested in your feedback, and want to express sincere thanks to the entire team of design professionals who worked along side us to make this possible.

The new logo or graphics package doesn’t change our mission. Not one bit. In fact we think you’ll agree, the visual message packed into the new design brings renewed clarity and focus to a simple idea – collaborating to build up the Kingdom of Jesus Christ.

Please consider submitting your church, school, faith-based ministry or organization for inclusion on our “network” page. You’ll also want to print out flyers to promote upcoming events hosted by theConnection. And if you haven’t noticed, we asked a few of Central Pennsylvania’s leading Christian voices to Tweet their view of the world – right here, on theConnection’s online headquarters…Check out the Leader Tweets Live.

Thank you again for your continued prayers and financial commitment to our work. We can’t thank you enough for all you do.

Sincerely,

Rebecca & Dan
Co-Founders
theConnection