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Top Five Tuesday — Top Five College Campuses
August 28, 2012 0

I grew up just down the street from a college campus (see below).  Since it was so close and since my father worked there, I spent a lot of time as a child walking around it. I suppose that’s why I still like investigating and appreciating what it is that makes college campuses so unique.  Read the full article…

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A District Superintendent On Fund Raisers
August 27, 2012 0

As part of yesterday’s message in the Money Talks series, I shared these words from Mary John Dye, who served as the Superintendent of the Statesville District of the United Methodist Church for four years: If churches would advertise the worship of God half as much as they advertise their barbeques and chicken pie suppers, a lot Read the full article…

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Money Talks Week Four — Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
August 24, 2012 0

It’s a cliche, but it’s also a question. As Good Shepherd has a series called Money Talks, does this church put its money where its mouth is? Are we doing as an organization what we want you to do as individuals? Find out this Sunday. 8:30.  10.  11:30.

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Bringing The Human Trafficking Fight HOME
August 23, 2012 0

This is a busy week around the Good Shepherd campus when it comes to the fight against human trafficking. First, we hosted a Breaking The Chains Conference on Tuesday, August 21.  That event filled our church with social workers, law enforcement personnel, and elected officials who brainstormed together on ways to combat the modern day Read the full article…

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What’s The Source Of Our Unity?
August 22, 2012 0

As some of you know, the United Methodist Church elected a new slate of bishops over this past summer.  The elections and subsequent assignments involve a lengthy process that has grown more and more complicated in the 200+ years Methodism has been in the United States. And the vast majority of newly-elected bishops had some version Read the full article…

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