Please send your SOC Offering to Brother Jon Henry by June first. 50% of the offering remains in the district. 50% of the offering goes to Headquarters.
Sunday School Camp ages eight – twelve begins June 13, 2011.
79.66% reporting:
EASTER SUNDAY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE 5875 with 47 0f 59 churches reporting.
The UPCI has asked the WV District Sunday School Department to gather and report the Easter Sunday School Attendance for all district churches. Will you help us by reporting your attendance. Will you also let us know if you are using UPCI Sunday School Literature? Then we ask, will you please send to your district Sunday School Department a Save Our Children Offering? Thank You for caring about reaching souls for Jesus.
Our goal is to “REACH” and “WIN” people to Jesus through Sunday School. Look at the results for the month of April 2011. With nine churches reporting there were 981 visitors in our district Sunday Schools. What are you doing that is getting people to go with you to Sunday School. Leave a comment. Perhaps your method would work for others.
Honoring the Past While Looking Forward to the Future
The WV District UPCI ministers have voted on three different occasions to sell the campground. The third and final vote (on April 19, 2011) was to accept an offer of $320,000, which amount is to be protected in an interest-bearing account that guards the investment while funding the planting of new UPCI churches.
By vote of the ministers, the funds cannot be touched except by a super-majority vote of the District Conference. The recent theft of all copper plumbing lines from the camp is resulting in an insurance claim that will be sufficient to cover all the District’s closing cost for the sale. This means the full $320,000 will go into the protected account.
The District will be having youth camps elsewhere. Youth camps / camp-meetings are a part of our Apostolic culture, and they will continue to be. With God’s help, our future will be even brighter than our wonderful past. With many fond memories, we honor not only the history on the campground, but all the precious saints and ministers who have labored to provide that history.
We are asking that all WV District churches report their Easter Attendance to SSDir@wvupci.org. Would you also report if you do or do not use the UPCI Sunday School literature. Our prayer is that you would have a great attendance in Sunday School Easter Sunday with many visitors. In the first three weeks of the Sunday School outreach we have reports of 316 visitors in Sunday School. Sunday School continues to be a great method for REACHING people who need Jesus.
Visit the Webster Springs United Pentecostal Church Website – <a href="http://www.frontiernet.net/~wsupc/“>
Ravenswood 1 refilled with the Holy Ghost
Apostolic Life Cathedral Huntington 1 baptized
Christian Apostolic Church, Clarksburg We had a great move of God.
Please join in and report your Sunday School Attendance and Number of Visitors. ssdir@wvupci.org
Please give in the Save Our Children Offering.
How many visitors will the WV District have in Sunday School for week two?
Will you report your Sunday School attendance and visitor count? SSDir@wvupci.org 
Will we reach our district for Jesus?
How many souls will the WV District UPCI have in Sunday School by Easter Sunday?
Will you join in the count and report your Sunday School Attendance and your total number of Visitors? SSDir@wvupci.org
April 3, 2011
Will you Please give in the Save Our Children Offering?
How many visitors were in your Sunday School today April 3, 2011?
What was your Sunday School total attendance?
Reports are coming in from West Virginia District UPCI churches.
As of 3:00 PM Sunday afternoon the count is up to “57″ visitors.
Email you totals to Paul Rounds Sunday School Director – SSDir@wvupci.org
April 3, April 10, April 17, and April 24 Easter Sunday
WV DISTRICT UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
SUNDAY SCHOOL – REACHING OUT
Will you join in and report your Sunday School soul winning outreach in the four Sundays leading up to Easter?
1. Which UPCI Sunday School will have the most visitors each week and the greatest over all total of visitors?
(Report the number of visitors in Sunday School each week)
2. Which UPCI Sunday School will have the greatest percentage of visitors to attendance?
(Report your total attendance and the number of visitors each week)
3. Which UPCI Sunday School will see someone receive the gift of the Holy Ghost in Sunday School?
(Report the number of those who receive the Holy Ghost for the first time)
Then we are asking that someone from every WV District UPCI church would report their Easter Sunday School Attendance.
Report by email: SSDir@wvupci.org
or by phone Sunday 12:00 Noon to 6:00 PM 1-304-847-2167
The Theme is – WE WANT YOU TO COME TO OUR SUNDAY SCHOOL
The Goal is – VISITORS IN YOUR SUNDAY SCHOOL
The Plan is – WV. DISTRICT SUNDAY SCHOOL CONTEST
The Time is – APRIL 3, 10, 17, and 24
Will you encourage your church to plan, prepare, and join, in reaching people for Jesus?
The Christian Educator magazine for Sunday School teachers is now free on the UPCI Sunday School web site. Go to www.sundayschooldivision.org then click on “Christian Educator.” You can read the magazine online and you can subscribe. If you subscribe to the free online magazine you will be notified by email when a new issue has been posted.
Just wanting to let everyone know some details for the Section 3 SOC rally. It is Friday, February 4, 2011 in Pennsboro @ 7:30. Bro. and Sis. Michael Ray will be ministering, so you won’t want to miss this event. Again it is not on Thursday the 3rd but Friday the 4th of February. Help us “Save Our Children.” God bless.
Pastor Steven Joy
Section 3 Sunday School Rep.
(Note: The newest reports are shown at the top.)
Elder John Sandy sent us the following comments and photos via email:
Here are some pics from Sunday School camp that you can either use on the church bulletin or the district website. I had to delete several that did not come out too well due to lighting.
I am also including some of the better ones that JT took after service, before we left. He is definitely hooked on becoming an every-year camper. He loved praising the Lord and thought all the church events were perfect for him. He has come home excited about what God could do through him!
I am especially thankful for those who go and take time from their personal jobs to minister to these young ones and make them strong now, so that when they become the senior high group, they can hit the ground running.
INVOLVED; DEDICATED; COMMITTED; CONSISTENT
The future of the WV UPCI is looking brighter because of Sunday School kids that love to praise God and learn of Him!
(Photos below by Elder John Sandy and/or J.T. Sandy)
Angel Raye Bowers sent us this message via Facebook: “My little girl and I both received the Holy Ghost last night [Friday night] at WV Church Camp!”
Tiphanii Meadors posted on Facebook: “Had a great night at camp! 33 total filled with the Holy Ghost @ WV Sunday School Camp!”
Adena Joseph (camper) reported when she arrived home: “Thirty people got the Holy Ghost!” (That apparently did not include some who were filled in the final service.)
Pastor Keith Fought posted on Facebook: “Was at Holy Hill tonight to get Kenneth from Sunday School Camp. He received the Holy Ghost at eight years old!! I am so proud of him.”
Pastor Steven Joy posted on Facebook: “We just found out that a total of 23 have received the gift of the Holy Ghost so far in the WV UPCI Sunday School Camp!”
Jerry Bonecutter posted on Facebook: “My 7 year old, Tyler, was filled with the Holy Ghost at Sunday School Camp, second day!”
Amy Hay posted on Facebook: “My 36 year old husband (aka the sound man) got the Holy Ghost!!” Then Paula Witt commented, “Yes, he SURE DID!! I’m still rejoicing!! 
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Tiphanii Meadors posted on Facebook: “16 kids filled with the Holy Ghost at Sunday School Camp so far!!” (That was as of about mid-day Wednesday.)
Pastor Steven Joy posted on Facebook: “At least 10 kids received the Holy Ghost so far. We’re just getting started too.” (That was as of sometime Tuesday.)
New on the Fliers & Forms page:
WV District Youth Camp Application, Rules, & Regulations (revised 2010)
This single PDF contains all the needed forms related to WV District Youth Camp: Camper Application, Worker Application, plus Camp Rules & Regulations. The file was revised May 28, 2010. Download size: 169 KB.
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