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Disciple: Picnic Blankets, Porch Drop-Offs and Costumes
posted on Dec 22, 2021 Children's ministry in a pandemic
The miracle of Christmas is near, and the excitement is in the air! Can you feel it? We are all preparing for the arrival of God as a human baby. I wonder what your children's ministry has in store to sh...
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Disciple: Gracious Hosts
posted on Dec 22, 2021 When the Dispatch of Business team decided that, due to discouraging COVID-19 trends, it was prudent to move the legislative portion of the 206th Annual Convention online, they also realized a need to be in the same space-not only because of the ...
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CAMINANDO WITH JESUS: Children of Light
posted on Dec 22, 2021 I n the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, ...
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Disciple: Ye Holy Angels Bright, Assist Our Song
posted on Dec 22, 2021 The following is adapted from the sermon delivered by the Rt. Rev. Sam Rodman during the Opening Eucharist at the 206th Annual Convention on November 20, 2021.
"Soon and very soon, we're going to see the King." The spiritual by Andraé Cr...
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Disciple: New, Notable & Newsworthy
posted on Dec 22, 2021 Toni Hagerman Announces Retirement
Earlier this fall, executive director of Galilee Ministries of East Charlotte Toni Hagerman announced her retirement. She served the ministry for six years, helping it grow from its infancy into the thriving...
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Disciple: The 206th Annual Convention Recap
posted on Dec 22, 2021 When the time came to make the decision on whether to hold the 206th Annual Convention in person, the stars weren't aligning quite well enough to move forward. Positive COVID-19 rates were trending up, and vaccination rates had plateaued wit...
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Disciple: Mission Strategy: Next Steps
posted on Dec 22, 2021 Throughout the summer, the Mission Strategy Task Force shared the work of the team to date. The goals, the strategies and the theology that comprise the mission strategy were presented via video and shared with clergy and lay leaders, in special ...
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Disciple: A Sure Foundation in Uncertain Times
posted on Dec 22, 2021 So then, you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom t...
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Disciple: Preach It!
posted on Dec 22, 2021 The Lay Preaching Training Initiative enters next phase
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.... The Word became flesh and dwelt among us."
- John 1:1, 14
In the prologue of John's Go...
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Caminando with Jesus
CAMINANDO WITH JESUS: Leaping for Joy
posted on Dec 17, 2021 In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.
When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the child leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was fille...
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