North District Lay Speaker Training will be held Saturday March 6, 2010 and Saturday April 10, 2010 from 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. at FUMC Daingerfield. Both basic and advanced courses will be offered. If you are interested you should download the enclosed flyer and send to:
Teresa Fagan
TAPP United Methodist Church
P.O. Box 35
New Boston, Tx 75570
You can contact her at 903-628-2381 or by email teresaonamission@aol.com
The registration deadline is February 28, 2010
Rev. Amy Hodge is the interim director of the Wesley at Kilgore College. Amy is seeking opportunities to share the ministry and work conducted at The Wesley with our local churches. Amy is available to speak to gatherings of UMW, UMM, youth groups, Sunday School classes, and more!
Amy has set aside the following Sundays to visit churches in our district and she is available for pulpit supply at these times: Feb. 7 & 14, March 28, April 11 & 25, May 16 & 23.
If your church is looking for a hands-on, local mission, then consider signing up to provide, cook and help serve one of the lunches at the Wesley each Wednesday.
You can reach Amy by phone (903-343-8826) or email (amyhodge77@yahoo.com).
*If your church has the funds to buy health kit supplies but not the manpower to complete them; The Wesley will be happy to do all of the shopping and assembling. We are eager to be involved in the relief efforts!
*Another way that people could support The Wesley is with gift cards for various places that will allow students who are in need purchase food or gas. There are a great deal of students who are struggling to make it from day to day – this gift will truly help us to feed the hungry.
You can find out more about what is happening at the Wesley Foundation @ Kilgore College by visiting the Facebook Fan Page.
The North District Clergy Spouses will be having their February get together on Tuesday February 9th at the home of Cindy Masterson (15 Woodcliff Drive, Texarkana, Tx 903-794-7746). They will gather for fellowship at 5:30 p.m. with supper beginning around 6:00 p.m. You are welcome to come when you can.
Please RSVP to Nancy McClanahan so plans can be made. You can rsvp by email txnnancy@hotmail.com, home phone 903-756-5747 or cell phone 903-650-1507.
Also if you are going through Linden to get to Texarkana you are welcome to carpool with Nancy. Carpool will leave by 4:30. Please contact her directly.
Attention clergy, clergy spouses and laity delegates to the Texas Annual Conference. (Guests and non delegate laity do not need to register)
Pre-Registration is now open for Annual Conference 2010. Register early to indicate your preferred format of the Pre-Conference Journal.
To Register:
1. Contact the district office to obtain our district password. (Contact info)
2. Go to this link and when asked enter the password.
3. Follow the rest of the steps on the site.
The deadline for pre-registration will be May 15th at 12:00 noon (central time). After this point the system will be closed and cannot be reopened.
For additional information about this year’s event, lodging, and relevant forms, please go to www.txcumc.org/2010acforms.
It’s time to register for the upcoming Small Church Leadership Institute, March 8-12 at Mount Sequoyah Conference Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Space is limited – register today! Register at: www.mountsequoyah.org. or click the links below. Early Bird discount offered until February 15
Registration Form Link Informational Flyer Link
• Are you frustrated that your church is stuck at 25, 50 or 100 on Sundays? Are you saddened that your worship attendance is slowly declining each year? Does your heart break to see a bus load of school children drive past your building each weekday, but your children’s department is empty on Sunday? Do the tears flow because your own sister stopped coming to worship?
• Are you excited that your church has recently experienced growth, new households are attending, the congregation is filled with new energy and new life?
• My friends, I dream of the day when every one of our United Methodist churches are alive, vibrant, and filled beyond capacity praising and worshipping the Lord Jesus Christ every Sunday.
• This event is just for you. The Small Church Leadership Institute is designed to equip laity and pastors with the knowledge and skills to lead their small attendance church to a higher level of health and vitality.
• The generous financial support of five Annual Conferences (Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas East, Kansas West, and Arkansas) and the United Methodist Foundation of Arkansas – has enabled us to attract the best authorities on small church transformation in the country: (Alice Mann, Dr. Tim Reaves, and Dr. Doug Anderson (The Race to Reach Out)
• Alice Mann, Senior Consultant with the Alban Institute and author of several books including Can Our Church Live? Redeveloping Congregations in Decline, and Holy Conversations: Strategic Planning as a Spiritual Practice for Congregations, will be our opening keynote speaker.
• I look forward to seeing you at Mount Sequoyah!
For more information contact Marilyn Braswell-Mount Sequoyah Conference & Retreat Center-150 N. W. Skyline Drive Fayetteville, AR 72701 -479-443-4531or 800-760-8126
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Faith and Leadership recently posted this article Steve Jobs as Preacher by Carmine Gallo. It starts of with the following statement…
Christian institutional leaders — indeed, anyone who speaks to an audience — can learn from the Apple CEO, writes Carmine Gallo.
So what does Steve Jobs do that we all can apply? Here are seven things that are suggested. To read the explanations of each read the full article here.
1. Set the Theme
2. Tell Personal Stories
3. Introduce the Antagonist
4 Strive for Simplicity
5. Create a water cooler moment
6. Develop command presence
7. Practice Practice and Practice some more.
Whether you are looking to improve your sermons or your presentations to a board of trustees, you can improve by using some of Jobs’ effective techniques.
Jill Krone has Beth Moore Bible studies available for sale. These include Paul: To Live as Christ and Jesus the One and Only. If you are interested contact jill.krone@gmail.com or call 903.473.3755
First Methodist Church of Gladewater has a black and white copier available. It is listed as “in working order, as far as we know” and it is free as long as you can come pick it up. If interested contact the Secretary at First Methodist Church Gladewater. 903-845-2565
The Monday Morning Quadrant Meeting at Hardy Memorial will be held as usual for the Texarkana area on Monday Jan 25. Pastors have the choice of attending either the Quadrant meeting or the workshop at Gladewater with Dr. Jerry DeSobe.
This is a follow up to last weeks post about the Dealing with Difficult Parishoners Workshop
We originally posted that you only needed to RSVP with Lonna if you were staying overnight at the retreat. For planning purposes, however, we also need a count for meals. If you will be attending the Clergy District Retreat either overnight or coming for the day please let Lonna know so she can have a correct count for meals as well as overnight accommodations. 903-794-6231
