Neighboring

During a conversation over coffee yesterday with a friend, he asked why things like missional living, neighboring, being a student of the community where we live, collaborative partnerships, racial reconciliation, foster care and adoption, serving the poor, hospitality and expanding our relational capacity to include people across ethnic, socio-economic and generational lines into gospel-centered community were all so important to me personally.  I thought …

A Church of Irresistible Influence

Almost two years go, we appointed a team of people among our church family to spearhead our missional reach as a church, both locally and internationally.  Our Missions Team has since been working to help deepen relationship with our ministry partners, while mobilizing both covenant members, attenders and guests to be living expressions of the love of Christ by serving …

Carrying The Fire

And other reflections on growing up in the traditional church Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.Proverbs 22:6 I grew up attending Sunday services at a small, rural United Methodist Church in eastern Rockingham county - a solid 30-35 minute drive one way …