Category: Church Leadership
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Italian Dinner was a Fun Event
Italian Night, a great theme event One of the things JoAnne and I will miss from Community Wesleyan is the themed fellowship dinners. Over the years we have attended many of them from Valentine Dinners with intimate settings for two to grand senior buffets with all kinds of themes. Last Saturdays’ Italian night was…
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Lenten & Easter Series Planned
Pastor Eric kicked off our Lenten Easter series called Walking with Jesus this past Sunday. He and I have been working behind the scenes on the entire outline for this series. Our goal is to focus our thoughts in the Gospels on the ministry of Jesus and our reaction to it. This will help us all to be…
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Expository Preaching Course Concludes
Teaching Preaching Once again this winer I took my turn in serving as teacher for the Burmese Bible School, Syracuse location. My assignment was a new one—to teach a course in expository preaching. I accepted since preaching is a favorite discipline of mine and I felt well prepared both by my years of formal training…
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State of the Church address
At the semi-annual church conference, I changed the format of my usual report and instead presented a “State of the Church” address. It was meant to summarize the achievements of my pastorate and describe the position of our church today as I view it. I am attaching it in pdf format. The State of the…
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Sermon coordinated Bible reading for November 4-24
Our Big Bible Bonanza reading contest has been very successful in encouraging daily Bible reading. Though people could choose to read any passage of at least five verses that they wanted to, many chose to follow the sermon coordinated outline series that we prepared for the contest time. At least one person wondered aloud what…
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Big Bible Bonanza increases Bible reading
Blue Angels vs. Goldfish Everyone a winner – that was our goal at the beginning of the Bible reading emphasis. More specifically, the goal was to increase the number of people reading their Bible every day. Well, what has happened? How are we doing? Our organizers divided the congregation into two alphabetical teams…
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Thank you so much for pastor appreciation month
It’s been a great month This has been a great pastor appreciation month. My associate, Pastor Eric and I say thank you to all of you—so many kind words, gifts, food donations and people generally going the extra mile to make us feel special. Just as a sample, today I received a restaurant gift certificate…
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October and November Messages Planned
I haven’t blogged in a couple weeks because I have been traveling part of each week. But now that the schedule has returned a little more to normal, I will try to catch up a little. As you can see, the plan below is already in progress. Our October series was planned to go with…
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On Celebrating World Communion Sunday
On October 7, we at Community Wesleyan, Kirkville, will join Christians around the world in the celebration of World Communion Sunday. This year, I did a little research to see what some others were saying about the observance of this special Sunday. It was a great way to use the spirit of the day to…
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FRC Simulcast marks a new first
Hurrah for a landmark event. Last Sunday evening our church hosted its first simulcast, the Family Research Council (FRC) I Pledge event. We met in the sanctuary and viewed nationally known speakers on the big screen. Over 40 people attended; a number equal to about 30 percent of our recent average Sunday attendance. Included were…