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Situation (Friendly)• College Park has several veterans, military

personnel, and their families• We are partnered with HVAF of Indiana,

Inc. a homeless veteran organization whose chief goal is to end veteran homelessness

• There are a whole host of similar organizations

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Situation (Enemy)

• Satan wants us to ignore our veterans, active military personnel and their families.

• Secularism and progressivism are big enemies of Christ and of truly helping our veterans, active military and their families.

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Mission: Veterans, active military, and their families of College Park Church will purposefully engage and connect with veterans, active military, and their families to ignite a passion to follow Jesus on the home front and on the battlefield throughout the year.

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Commander’s Intent: Ignite a passion for veterans, active military, and their families to follow Jesus!

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Deployment

Post-Deployment

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LEADERSHIP TEAMLEADERSHIP TEAM

• Pastoral Leader: Don Bartemus

• Lay Leader: Arne Pedersen

• Deployment Support: Stan and Jan Gaidis

• Battle Buddies: Rex and Carol Joseph

• Family Support: Dennis and Valerie Couts

• HVAF of Indiana: Andy Bokmeyer

• Veteran’s Day Celebration: Arne Pedersen & Jeff Hallal

• Citizen’s Memorial Day Walk: Arne Pedersen

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Deployment Support• Spring (Month of May in time for Armed

Forces Day and Memorial Day)• Fall (Month of October in time for

Veteran’s Day)• Packages

• Seasonal campaign focus• Includes bibles• Includes letters from children

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• Timeline– We will be collecting

items for the fall shipping beginning in mid September.

– Sunday, October 23 will be the box packing date.

• Volunteer needs– Box packing– Donations– Decorate 18"

Christmas trees

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Battle Buddies• Veterans in a 1x1 battle buddy relationship• Special training to prepare and set

expectations– 30 hour seminary level course– Care and Counsel for Combat Stress

• Adopted the 219th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade from the Indiana Army National Guard

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• Timeline– Training dates

includes the first and third Tuesday and Saturday of the month

• September 6,10,20,24• October 4,8,18,22• January 3,7,17,21• February 7,11,21,25• March 6,10,20,24

– The return of the 219th BFSB is May 2012

• Volunteer needs– Attend training– Two additional leaders to

work with Rex Joseph– Leading Bible study

• HVAF at Warman house

• 219th BFSB after their return

– Mentoring• HVAF at Warman house

• 219th BFSB after their return

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Family support• Be the support network for families of deployed

troops– Be there to listen and just be there– Engage CPC tradesmen for specific needs (lawn

mowing, house painting, house repair, appliance repair, car repair, etc)

– Participate in activities with the families

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• Timeline– August 27th 219th

BFSB family picnic at Eagle Creek

– September 11th – TBD– October 15th

Dedication of Franklin Armory

– October 22nd Yellow ribbon program

• Volunteer needs– Family games and

volunteers to run them– Ladies bible studies

for women of deployed soldiers

– Professional list to volunteer services

– If possible, attend the care and counsel training

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HVAF of Indiana

• Monthly dinners at the Warman house

• Invite homeless veterans to church and get them plugged into CPC ministries.

• Provide fundraising efforts, food for the emergency pantry, clothing, and housing needs.

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• Timelines– Dinners

• August 26th

• September 30th

• October 28th

• November 22nd

– Events

• Volunteer needs– Need sponsor for

October dinner– Vets to come to the

dinners to interact with the clients

– Drivers to help bring men up to church

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Veteran’s Day Celebration

• On or near Veteran’s day

• Worship the Lord, honor those who served, and invite veterans to Christ

• Reach out to local community to invite veterans

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Veteran’s Day Celebration

• MG R. Martin Umbarger, The Adjutant General for the State of Indiana, is our special guest

• Mayor Greg Ballard LTC(R) US Marines will be attending

• Working on getting 1SG Chris Borgesi’s color guard and rifle team

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• Timeline– Saturday, November

12, 2011 at 1600hrs (4pm)

– Canvassing American Legion, VFW, Churches, etc from August through November

• Volunteer needs– Feet on the street

• American Legion• VFW• Area churches• Military units

– Ushers• Day of the event• Jeff Hallal is the leading

– Food Service• Day of event• Tammi Gant is leading

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Citizen’s Memorial Day Walk

• On Memorial day

• Guide kids through the various War Memorials in downtown Indianapolis

• Tie together responsibilities of the spiritual citizenship with the national citizenship.

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• Timeline– Focus on God and the

military for Next Generation in April – May

– Targeted families invited early May

– Final instructions week before in May

– Occurs on Memorial Day

• Volunteer needs– Targeted families with

kids +/- 8yrs old– Veterans to help walk

through various monuments

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