it seems like every piece of electronic equipment at the church decided to fail in the past week. Last Thursday when the boiler inspector stopped by, she noticed that our hot water heater was squirting water everywhere! Monday the internet wouldn’t work at the church and I was on the phone with tech support for…
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some thoughts on amendment one
The first amendment that comes before our Annual Conferences from General Conference this year is to change the wording of paragraph 4 in our constitution. There are a whole lot of youtube and blogposts and newsletter articles about this and suffice it to say – there are reasons to be in favor of it and…
Derrama tu Santo Espíritu
Last night we had our second monthly bi-lingual worship service. None of the planning or preparation that we had really put into it could have created the spirit of worship that we shared. We couldn’t have made it happen… but God could. In our first worship service, we decided to pretty much stick with the…
Becoming Disciples through: Accountability and Practice
1. Our life of faith is a journey Later on in today’s service, the life of faith will begin for this little girl as her parents and family bring her forward to be baptized. As the water is poured over her head and the Holy Spirit fills her life nm, we are remembering that God…
FF: Bucket List
From Rev Gals: Do you have a “Bucket List”? In other words, from the movie ofthe same name, five things you want to see, do, accomplish, etc. before you kickthe bucket? I actually don’t have a “bucket list”! I have a friend who I know has all of these lists of things that she wants…
no words…
New York RegionNew Riverside Pastor’s Compensation Splits CongregationBy PAUL VITELLOPublished: April 23, 2009Parishioners have filed a lawsuit to stop the installation of the Rev. Dr. Brad R. Braxton, who they say will receive more than $600,000 a year and will shift the church’s mission. He’s a former preaching professor of mine from Vanderbilt. And I…
knock-knock
I have posted on here many times that home visitation is not my strength. And if I’m to be honest with myself, even though it is the number one priority of my PPR, it’s not as high as it should be when I sit down and schedule myself for the week. And reason #1 –…
making members, making disciples
At my church, we have a pretty significant number of people who are “constituents” of our church and not official members. For various reasons, these people want to be an active part of our congregation but do not want to take the vows of membership and officially become United Methodist. And yet, many of those…