Dalton’s Sri Lanka Video Diary
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Dalton’s Sri Lanka
I met thirteen year-old Dalton Taylor and the rest of the Encounter Sri Lanka 2014 team – Dan Sheffield, Barry Taylor, Tracey Purdy Taylor, Amy Gendall, Rick Fox and Jaylynne Fox – on July 25th, the evening before they flew to Sri Lanka for a two week mission trip. My chat with Dalton went something like
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What Is a Healthy Church?
Anyone else a day behind with this short week? Yup, that’s right Church Health Thursday is on Friday this week! Oops! This week’s blog “What is a Healthy Church” is from Ron Edmondson and it explores just what the title suggests. Happy Thursday and Friday folks! Click here to read, “What is a Healthy Church.”
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3 Reminders from the Cult I Accidentally Joined
This week I am sharing something from Eric Geiger’s blog: “I did a bit of research and discovered I had accidentally joined a cult. Dissertations have been written on “the Jeep people”—the people who love a vehicle that rides rough and gets horrible gas mileage because we can take the tops off and go off-road
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The Sunshine Class
The Sunshine Class was started in1976 by Ethel Losier. Ethel and her family attended Thunder Bay Free Methodist Church but she felt that the Sunday school classes offered at the time were beyond her mentally disabled daughter’s understanding – so with God’s prompting Ethel began the Sunshine Class. Initially there were six students and three
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Why “Insiders” Are Killing Your Church
““Of course I want to reach lost people,” … but I’m not going to see us change the music. … but I’m not going to lead a capital campaign to raise the money. … but I’m not going to park far away. … but I’m not going to risk stirring things up right now in
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The Music Man
Pastor Doug Dawson from Open Arms in Tillsonburg, ON shared this story about Leonel who was a regular at Brazos Abiertos, an outreach ministry for Spanish speaking migrant workers. We may never see Leonel again and that is good news. This statement doesn’t make a lot of sense without Leonel’s back story. For the past three
Are You Too Christian for Non-Christians?
““Wouldn’t it be great if we had an app that measured our engagement with unbelievers?” something ran a running total of: Amount of Time x Depth of Relationship x Unbelievers Sadly, for many, the product would be small, low single digits. It is so easy to fill our time with the activity and fellowship of
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Seven Factors That Are Hindering Evangelism in Churches
I continue to dig into Thom Rainer’s work on the topic of church health – inspired by his book Autopsy of a Deceased Church. Here are some more challenging thoughts from his blog, “Seven Factors That Are Hindering Evangelism in Churches.” Of course the idea is to make sure that what he writes is not
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General Conference – Monday May 19th 12:35-3:00
This is the live stream for General Conference Monday, May 19th 12:35-3:00pm.
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