We dedicated a Habitat For Humanity house on Saturday. We parntered with Selwyn Avenue Presbyterian Church as well as some corporate sponsors in Charlotte. It took 14 Saturdays of volunteer labor to build a house for and with the Hoover family. The Hoovers worked right alongside us most of the way. Jeff Humphries from Good Read the full article…
Notice anything about these two church logos? Neither mention Methodism. Yet these are two of the most influential and effective Methodist churches in the USA — one of them in Indiana and the other in Houston. There’s some interesting conversation in the blogosphere these days around whether or not Methodist churches should identify themselves as Read the full article…
I’ll be visiting in the hospitals later today. Occasionally I’ll hear that pastors of churches the size of Good Shepherd don’t do hospital visitation anymore. Now I don’t do all of it. I share responsibilities with Rich Tuttle, our Pastor of Congregational Care, who has an anointing to do hospital work. And I don’t throw Read the full article…
So today we had a planning meeting to lay out the first Sunday morning message series of 2009. And as always happens, more and better ideas emerge out of that group than I could ever come up with on my own. Those meetings are why series like Oddballs and Loved have resonated with so many Read the full article…
I’m quite fond of telling parents “‘No’ is a complete sentence.” It gives parents a renewed sense of authority and strength. However, I not nearly as good at realizing the same thing is true in church. Most church leaders are like me: someone in the church has an idea for ministry, brings it to me Read the full article…
