Tomorrow we begin a new series in INCREASE on Sundays (ministry to grades 1-4) called “INTERSTATE 4 one another.” The first lesson is on traveling together. When I think of travel experiences that I have had with other people, I look back and laugh and sometimes groan in agony. Traveling together can bring out the [...]
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Traveling Together
Posted in community, loving on October 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Change This World and East Side Church of God
Posted in community, loving on February 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
East Side Church of God, Anderson partnered with Change this World to feed hungry kids. East Side raised $13,900 through t-shirt sales, dimes collected in water bottles, quarters collected in M&Ms tubes, and offerings in order to pack 50,000 meals that are headed to Uganda and Haiti. Today hundreds of people participated in packing the [...]
Be our guest!
Posted in community on January 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Disney has taken the art of hospitality to an amazing level. What other organization is more inviting, more welcoming, more caring, or more prepared for their guests? They are anxious for you to come and experience the wonder of a story. They do not just want to tell you a story, but they invite you [...]
Togetherness
Posted in community on August 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We are better together. all ages, the young and the mature, and everything in between male and female single and married boys and girls moms and dads grandmas and grandpas aunts and uncles nieces and nephews cousins and don’t forget the greats and the seconds and thirds friends acquaintances friends who I haven’t met yet [...]
Weekend Review
Posted in celebrations, community on August 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
. . . great weekend at church . . . Block party for the neighborhood – games, inflatables, and school supplies for the kids, lots of fun food like popcorn, hotdogs, snow cones, and cotton candy – YUM!, music, door prizes, sunshine, lots of love being shared . . . Block party Dunk Tank was [...]
What’s a Church to be? (and do?)
Posted in community, quotes on April 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We somehow think that the Church is here for us; we forget that we are the Church, and we’re here for the world. –Mosiac (Los Angeles) pastor Erwin McManus We, the church, know this. We do. We just forget sometimes. Prayer for today God, may we, your church, love the world in your name today. [...]
To Be Invited
Posted in community on April 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
to be invited is to be welcomed to be cared for to be wanted to be well thought of an opportunity to grow an experience of epic proportions an adventure to be included to belong to be loved
One Day Without Shoes
Posted in community on April 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Hard Without Shoes Through everyday encounters with domestic poverty, we are reminded to appreciate having food and shelter, but most of us all but forget about our feet. Food, shelter, AND shoes facilitate life’s fundamentals. Imagine a life without shoes; constantly aware of the ground in front of you, suffering regular cuts and scrapes, [...]
Hospitality by Henri Nouwen
Posted in community, quotes on March 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hospitality . . . means primarily the creation of a free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to [...]
1,000 Words on Community
Posted in community, reflections on March 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
