{"id":10508,"date":"2015-09-18T00:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T00:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=10508"},"modified":"2018-11-09T00:25:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T00:25:17","slug":"noac-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2015\/noac-by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAC by the Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by Jim Grossnickle Patterson<\/small>
Bethany Seminary hosted one of the daily ice cream socials at NOAC<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 2015 National Older Adult Conference, which was the Church of the Brethren\u2019s 13th NOAC, gathered 906 people at the Lake Junaluska (N.C.) Conference Center on Sept. 7-11. This number includes registered participants, staff, volunteers, guest speakers, and young adult assistants.<\/p>\n

Here are some more NOAC numbers:<\/span><\/p>\n

Offerings:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

$3,297.43<\/strong>*: offering received during worship on Monday, Sept. 7<\/p>\n

$8,662.02<\/strong>*: offering received during worship on Wednesday, Sept. 9<\/p>\n

$11,344.19<\/strong>*: offering received during worship on Friday, Sept. 11<\/p>\n

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Photo by Nevin Dulabaum<\/small>
NOACers got up early for the walk\/run around Lake Junaluska benefiting the Nigeria Crisis Fund.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NOAC for Nigeria walk\/run around Lake Junaluska:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

$1,010<\/strong>: received in registration fees<\/p>\n

$8,939<\/strong>*: received in additional donations to the Nigeria Crisis Fund<\/p>\n

$9,949<\/strong>*: total raised for the Nigeria Crisis Response<\/p>\n

Kits for Kids:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

46<\/strong>: number of NOAC volunteers who assembled kits for distribution by Church World Service, through the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Md.<\/p>\n

416<\/strong>: number of School Kits assembled<\/p>\n

287<\/strong>: number of Hygiene Kits assembled<\/p>\n

$1,283<\/strong>*: received in donations to Church World Service<\/p>\n

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Photo by Jim Grossnickle Patterson<\/small>
The NOAC Golf Scramble is a favorite recreation activity. Shown here, a couple of NOACers prepare to set out on their golf cart.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Share a Story:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

403<\/strong>: new books donated to Junaluska Elementary School–more than one each for the school\u2019s 350 students<\/p>\n

1 box<\/strong>: gently used books donated to the elementary school for classroom use<\/p>\n

1 box<\/strong>: extras from the Kits for Kids service project donated to the school to aid students in need<\/p>\n

And now…NOAC News!:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Too many to count:<\/strong> laughs, chuckles, contented sighs, and even the occasional tear elicited from NOACers by the video antics of the NOAC News crew: David Sollenberger, Larry Glick, and Chris Brown.<\/p>\n

*The Treasurer\u2019s Office notes that these are not final numbers, but represent the tally of checks and cash donations as of this publication date.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The 2015 National Older Adult Conference, which was the Church of the Brethren\u2019s 13th NOAC, gathered 906 people at the Lake Junaluska (N.C.) Conference Center on Sept. 7-11. This number includes registered participants, staff, volunteers, guest speakers, and young adult assistants. Here are some more NOAC numbers:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[806,1259,1256],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-10508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-congregational-life-ministries","tag-noac","tag-older-adults"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10508"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13094,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10508\/revisions\/13094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10508"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=10508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}