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REHOBOTH CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES SEPTEMBER 2008 ISSUE NO. 103

REHOBOTH’S ANNUAL

MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN 2008/2009

He moved on from there and dug another well, and no one quarreled over it. He named it Rehoboth, saying,

“Now the LORD has given us room and we will flourish in the land.”

Genesis 26:22

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Membership Campaign 2008

ANNUAL GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING HIGHLIGHTS

The Rehoboth Annual General Meeting was held on Saturday,

June 14 at the Maranatha Christian Re-formed Church in Calgary.

Following is a brief summary of the day’s events:

1. The Audited Financial State-ment for the fiscal year ended on March 31, 2008 was presented. It reported Operational Revenues of $15,042,492.00 and Operational Expenses of $14,967,297.00, or an excess of Revenues over Expenses from Operations of $75,195.00. Should you wish a copy of the Au-dited Financial Statements you may request a copy from the Rehoboth Administration Office.

2. The Operating budget for the year 2008/2009 was presented and ap-proved by the membership in at-tendance. It projects revenues and expenses of $14,405,000.00 for the year.

3. Rehoboth acknowledged the com-mitment and dedication of retiring Board Member John Bekkering for serving an extra year as Past Presi-dent, as well as Jane Brouwer, both of whom have served Rehoboth in several volunteer positions for over 25 years.

4. The membership also acknowledged Marianne Penner of Three Hills and Tony Bouma of Calgary for six years of continuous volunteer service on the the Rehoboth Christian Min-

istries’ Board of Directors, both of whom were served notice that they were eligible for nomination again next year. We thank these retiring Board members for their invaluable service and leadership and thank them for countless hours of volun-teer work on Rehoboth’s behalf.

Mr. Bert Kamphius of Edmonton was re-elected to a second three year term to Rehoboth’s Board of Directors. Newly elected to the Board were Peter Lindhout of St. Albert, Annie Visser of Lacombe, Sherry Tenbrinke of Lacombe, Carl Price of Calgary, and Bobbie Bauer of Three Hills. The membership expressed appreciation and thanks to these newly elected members for

Rehoboth Christian Ministries’ annual Membership Campaign

is conducted in the month of Septem-ber by Volunteer Contact Persons and Canvassers across the province. The budgeted amount for this year’s cam-paign as approved by the Member-ship at the AGM in June is $45,000.00 in Membership Fees @ $10.00 and $125,000.00 in donations for a total of $170,000.00.

Your Rehoboth membership can and does make a difference! Your mem-bership along with your prayers, can and does affect government deci-sions when funding is negotiated for the programs Rehoboth Christian Ministries operates in support of the

individuals who live with disabilities that we serve.

WE NEED YOUR HELP!

Our volunteer Contact Persons will be recruiting volunteer canvassers to solicit memberships and donations from thousands of supporting mem-bers of over 60 supporting churches and individuals from across the Province.

Please respond generously when a volunteer contacts you regarding the Rehoboth Membership Drive in your congregation.

If you are not contacted by one of our volunteer canvassers this fall, please take a few minutes to fill in the form

on the back page of this Newsletter and send it along with your member-ship fee and donation to : Rehoboth Christian Ministries, 3920 – 49 Av-enue, Stony Plain, Alberta, T7Z 2J7 – or you can log on to our website at www.rehoboth.ab.ca and make your contribution “on-line.”

Rehoboth is truly blessed and con-tinues to expand and grow because of the generous and faithful support of God’s people throughout the prov-ince.

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Welcome to New Camp Caretakers

Welcome to Jackie and Hidde Born from Edmonton who have taken up residence at camp for the next 3 years. We are excited that they have become part of the Rehoboth Camp Family and wish them well in their time as Camp Caretakers.

We also wish to thank Kevin and Mar-ion Debree who after almost 5 years as Camp Caretakers have moved into Lacombe. Thank you Debree’s for your years of service and dedication to Re-hoboth Camp. We wish you well in your future endeavours.

The Board of Rehoboth Christian Ministries and the

Rehoboth Camp Committee would like to take this

opportunity to thank all the 163 volunteers who made

this Camp season the huge success that it was!

You made it possible for the 135 campers to enjoy

a week at Camp Rehoboth.

CAMP DATES fOR 2009 ARE:

Adult Week 1 – July 4-10

Adult Week 2 – July 11-17

Independent Week – July 18-24

Youth Week – July 25-31

Votes are in … this year’s camp gets

2 thumbs up!

CAMP REHOBOTH 2008



CAMP REHOBOTH 2008

The Board Acknowledges 20 Years of Volunteer Service at Camp Rehoboth

Ena Boot

Kevin Debree

Thank You Alice!

After almost 19 years of employment Alice Keizer retired at the end of June. Alice worked in the Ac-counting Of-fice most re-cently as the

Accounts Payable Clerk. We thank Alice for her many years of faithful service and wish her and Jasper the Lord’s blessings in the retirement phase of there lives.

Gaye Klooster

Good Bye Gaylene!

Rehoboth Christian Ministries Mission StatementIn obedience to the will of God, Rehoboth shall convey God’s love to persons with disabilities and their families by “making room” for them through personal support, advocacy and public education and by providing them with opportunities for personal growth and meaningful participation in society.

Financial PolicySpending of funds is confined to Board approved programs and purchases. Each donation that is designated toward an approved program will be used as designated with the understanding that when any given need has been met, designated donations will be used where most needed.

Gaylene Archibald, Re-gional Director for Re-

hoboth-Three Hills, retired on August 31 after 12 years of service to the Rehoboth-Three Hills program. Gay-lene was the first employee hired for our Three Hills pro-gram and was instrumental in expanding the program from the original 8 individu-als to the current enrollment of 10 Residential, 15 Day Pro-

gram, and 2 Outreach pro-gram participants. Gaylene’s enthusiasm, dedication, spir-itual strength, and infectious laugh, will be sorely missed by staff and clients alike. We wish her well and, as she is not actually moving away, in-tend to tap into her tool box of skills from time to time.

Thank you Gaylene! And may God bless you in your travels.



What keeps a choir going for so many years? An ongoing interest by hundreds of Edmonton children - including some of the children of those who were in the choir when it started.

Since 1978, the choir has maintained a close partnership with Rehoboth. Re-cordings, tours and worship services have allowed the children to encour-age public support of Rehoboth’s min-istries. This year’s 30th anniversary will allow former choir members and the community to join in remembering and celebrating the gifts that children can bring to worship and a cause such as Rehoboth Camp.

Rein Selles, Director, indicated that the invitation to Ken Medema to par-ticipate was important for two reasons: “First, we wanted to give interested children and adults who have been in-volved in the choir a chance to share their memories and hear those memo-ries sung back in a song. Second, we asked Ken to write a song for this year’s choir and to come and join us in pre-senting it as a new hymn for celebrating God’s faithfulness.

Let The Children Come!The Joyful Noise Choir of Edmonton celebrates 30 years of ministry with children and Rehoboth November 1-9, 2008.

Edmonton’s West End Christian Re-formed Church originally encouraged the choir’s formation and will welcome the choir with Ken for a celebration service November 9 at 10:00 AM. “This will give us an opportunity to thank the congregation and God for all he has done for and through the choir,” said Selles.

Seniors (and grandparents) have also been a special part of the joint ministry. As part of the anniversary, the choir will tour to Woodynook CRC, Lacombe on November 1 to provide a unique Seniors Tea for seniors from La-combe, Ponoka, Rimbey and Red Deer churches. Seating is limited so seniors will be requested to reserve seats. Lo-cal church bulletins will provide more information in October.

Anniversary plans include a live recording of the music presented by the choir, Ken and other special guests over the weekend. All proceeds from the celebrations will be presented to Rehoboth.

Plan to join us! For more informa-tion contact Linda Rosendal at Re-hoboth - 780-963-4044.

The Joyful Noise performed in Coaldale Canadian Reformed Church last fall on be-half of Rehoboth’s ministry in southern Alberta.

Join In The Celebrations

November 8Telling The Story In SongKen Medema In Concert with Joyful Noise ChoirWest End CRC - 7:00 PMTickets $10.00 eachOrder by phone 780-963-4044 or [email protected]

November 9Celebration ServiceWest End CRC - 10:00 AMJoyful Noise Choir Ken Medema

“Concert goers leaving couldn’t speak enough praise about Ken’s music and talent. What else can you say about a man who invites members of the audience to tell a story about their life, then almost instantly composes a song about them on stage? He is a musician’s musician.” -From Omnibus

November 1Seniors TeaWoodynook CRC, Lacombe2:00 - 4:00 p.m.Seating by reservation (check your church bulletin in October for more information)No Charge



STONY PLAINStony Plain’s Annual Golf Tournament raises over $40,000.00

Stony Plain Golf Committee would like to thank their volunteers for their sup-port. Volunteers on the day of the event were: Linda Maki, Jim Schoepp, Jessica Mulder, Kyla Maki, Marj Vandasselaar,

Mike Melenberg, Lorraine Mount, Cathy Vandermeer, Matt Melenberg, Rebecca Mount, Susan Lamoureaux, Stephen Van Belle, Lisa Dexter

Rehoboth Stony Plain participates in Stony Plain’s 100th year celebration and Farmers Day Parade and receives 1st place in the category of clubs and organization and 1st place over all. Good Job Everyone!!!

COALDALERehoboth/Coal-dale has had a wonderful and busy summer! Many of the individuals we serve, and some staff members, attended Camp Rehoboth, and it was the high point of their summer. Others also enjoyed day

trips to Waterton, The Carriage House in Raymond, and various other local attractions.

We also kept busy at the vocational site, where our fabulous summer students provided wonderful activities for us to enjoy! In June we had a carnival, with games such as mini-putt, bowling, feed

the clown and a dunk tank. The hit of the day was the dunk tank, everyone had great fun trying to dunk staff and the summer students!

Rehoboth / Coaldale also had our own Chinese Olympics at Park Lake! We

REGIONAL VIEWS

Open House at the Talent Connection in Stony PlainDecember 13 from 9:00 – 12:00

Pancake Breakfast Poinsettias will be available for $11.00 each



had a torch relay, an opening ceremo-ny, a Chinese feast, games, crafts and a huge water fight to finish off the day. We had a terrific time, and were blessed with a beautiful day!

In August we had a Talent Show – and what a talented bunch we are! Lots of singing and skits and fun! We are so fortunate to have the wonderful sum-mer students we do, they provide us with a great deal of help and FUN!!

CALGARY

Linda Powell, Calgary Region’s Re-sources Manager came to present us with our CET certificate.

Paul Dunnewold and Clifford Bennet at this year’s client camp. Both are cel-ebrating 20 years of living together as roommates and being in Rehoboth’s service.

Stampede Breakfast: Special thanks to Gail, Karen and Barry for coming out and cooking the pancakes and sau-sages!

THREE HILLSRehoboth Christian Ministries is pleased to announce the appointment of Debbie Dietz to the position of Re-gional Director in Three Hills. Debbie has been employed at Rehoboth-Three Hills for 12 years, most recently as Team

Leader of Vocational Servic-es. She brings an extensive knowledge of the commu-nity and of the individuals we serve to the position and we are thankful that she was willing to accept the addi-tional responsibilities of this position.

Congratulations, and wel-come to you new role Debbie!

GRANDE PRAIRIE

Welcome to Wendy, our newest resi-dent in the Grande Prairie Region.

Lisa helping out around the house

Louise and her Mom

Summer BBQ fun

REGIONAL VIEWS



2008-2009 BOARd Of dIRECTORSRobbie Bauer, Three Hills

Al Brander, High River

Peter deys, Lethbridge

Bert Kamphius, Edmonton

Peter Lindhout, St. Albert

Carl Price, Calgary

Otto Salomons, Lethbridge

Barb Slomp, Edmonton

Sherry Tenbrinke, Lacombe

Annie Visser, Lacombe

Mike Vos, Edmonton

Wally Mulder – CEO/Executive Director Office: 3920 - 49 Avenue Stony Plain, Alberta T7Z 2J7 [email protected]

MemorialsIn Memory of Mrs. Coleen GilbertIn Memory of Mr. Marinus BosIn Memory of Mrs. Annie VisserIn Memory of Mr. Fred De GrootIn Memory of Mr. John StiksmaIn Memory of Mr. Jack RuschIn Memory of Mrs. Minnie Mulder

CorporateATCO Structures Inc. – Company Matching

portionChristian Credit Union – EdmontonChristian Stewardship ServicesTelus Dollars for DollarsUnited Way of Alberta Capital RegionUnited Way of Alberta Calgary Region

Groups/Clubs/SocietiesProceeds from Kool’s KloksProceeds from John & Sally Leder’s Annual

Hoe DownGift from Young People Society of 40’s,

50’s & 60’s – Neerlandia CRC

ChurchesBarrhead Canadian Reformed ChurchBethel Community Christian Reformed

Church – EdmontonBethel Free Reformed Church – In Memory

of Mr. Marinus BosBethel United Reformed Church – CalgaryBrooks Christian Reformed ChurchCoaldale Canadian Reformed ChurchCovenant Christian Reformed Church –

EdmontonEdson-Peers Christian Reformed ChurchEmmanuel Reformed Church – NeerlandiaFaith Fellowship Christian Reformed

Church - FairviewFellowship Christian Reformed Church –

EdmontonGranum Christian Reformed ChurchInglewood Christian Reformed Church –

EdmontonIron Springs Christian Reformed ChurchMaranatha Christian Reformed Church –

CalgaryMaranatha Christian Reformed Church –

Edmonton

Neerlandia Canadian Reformed ChurchNeerlandia Christian Reformed ChurchNew Life Fellowship Christian Reformed

Church – Red DeerOrthodox Reformed Church – EdmontonOttewell Christian Reformed Church –

EdmontonParkland Reformed Church – PonokaProvidence Canadian Reformed Church –

EdmontonSonlight Community Church – Regina,

SaskatchewanSonRise Christian Reformed Church –

PonokaSt. Albert Canadian Reformed ChurchSt. Albert Christian Reformed ChurchTaber Canadian Reformed ChurchTrinity Christian Reformed Church –

EdmontonTrinity Reformed Church – LethbridgeWest End Christian Reformed Church –

Edmonton – in Honor of Five Gables 10th Anniversary

Gifts Gratefully Received The following donations were received from February 14, 2008 – August 22, 2008

their willingness to serve Rehoboth in this capacity.

5. Though not all were in attendance, 104 staff members were acknowl-edged for Two, Five, Ten, Fifteen and Twenty Year Staff Service Awards.

20 Years – Sigrid Schlick-Miklos

15 Years – Janeen Sharrun, Judith MacCallum and Craig Morris

10 Years – Victoria Forand, Janice Blake, Cindy Beyers, Kathryn Mur-phy, Ardelle Perrin, Esther Ahulu, Marina Evangelista, Douglas Cos-man, Eileen Sawatsky, Terri Ann Miller.

5 Years – 14 employees

2 Years – 64 employees

6. Reports from the various regions in which Rehoboth provides supports, as well as from the Camp Program, Director of Human Resources, Di-rector of Operations, and Executive Director were noted.

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