WHEN: Begins at 12 PM on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012 Ends on Wednesday, Feb. 8 at 12 PM WHERE: Lakeview Baptist Assembly in Lone Star, Texas SPEAKER: George Brookover: Dealing with Conflict/ When the Trouble Comes ACCOMODATIONS: Register by e-mail: Lnunn@windstream.net Phone inquiries: 903.794.6231 Commuter $50, Overnight DBL $85, SGL $100 [...]
Sunday, January 15, 2012
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Attention Certified Lay Ministers and Candidates!
Rev. Dan Hoke and CLM Registrar, Anna M Rohde will conduct these key meetings to offer CLMs real help with church issues/concerns, spiritual direction, and valuable preaching resources. Please RSVP with Anna (903-758-7003) your attendance at either location.
January 16
District Office, Longview Location 10:00 AM – 1511 Judson Rd., Ste A
January 26
District Office, Texarkana Location 10:00 AM – 4008 Moores Lane
January 9, 2012 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Grace Crossing UMC, Longview
January 10, 2012 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
District Office – Texarkana
This year we have moved to the EZRA System for data entry, which replaces DOVE. Visit http://ezra.gcfa.org/ Your ID is your church’s GCFA number, “Company Name” is GBNO, password is txcumc1. For those without highspeed internet, identified places in the district will be available for your data entry. Contact either district office. Start NOW! Remember: SAVE FREQUENTLY.
903-665-3258 Rev. Allison Byerley, Dist. Auditor
903-794-6231 Lonna Nunn 903-758-7003 Anna M Rohde
January 8 at 3 PM @ Gilmer First United Methodist Church
January 22 at 3 PM @ Linden First United Methodist Church
Workshops:
Finance – Mr. Ed Moore
Staff Pastor Parish (SPRC) – DS Rev. Bill Taylor
Trustees – Mr. Jerry Massey
Administrative Council – Mr. Carroll Greenwaldt
Missions – Rev. Richard Laster & Ms. Marty Vaughan
– All are welcome. Committee Guidelines available $3 –
Sponsored by: North District Leadership Team
More Information: 903-758-7003 & 903-794-6231
This is to let you know that the Church Transformation Survey is now available on line. It is running on the same server that runs the Salary Sheet application, but there is a different logon screen to gain access.
This application is designed to handle multiple information gathering tasks for the Texas Annual Conference, so you will see a “Switchboard” screen after you logon to the system that has buttons to take you to the specific task you want to accomplish.
The church Level logon screen can be found by going to the conference web site and clicking on the “Login Area”. Below the link to EZRA is a new choice titled:
Vital Signs, Church Transformation Survey,
and other local church information
which takes you to the actual web page address of
http://www.
That login is like EZRA, churches use their GCFA number with the generic password. On the first logon they are asked to set their own password. If they make it the same as EZRA, both systems will take the same logon. The logon screen looks like
Hello to all clergy spouses!
I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas. May the Lord touch your heart
this Christmas and fill you up with His amazing love and joy. May He
continue to use you to be a blessing to all those around you.
I have some exciting news. We now have online registration. Yeah!!!!!
Laura Morgan, our registrar, has been working on this with Heartspring.
Thanks to Laura for making this possible. So we are going to be using it to
register for our Winter Gathering coming up February 3-4. See attached
information about the gathering.
Here is how the online registration works…..
Below is the link for the online registration. The link will take you to
the Heartspring Foundation site. Register as a guest–no log in or
password. The registration fee is nonrefundable upon registration, meals
are nonrefundable after 1/20/12, lodging is nonrefundable if Laura Morgan is
not notified by 1/31/2012 (48 hours prior to event).
Laura will be on a mission trip to Haiti January 7-14. If you have any
questions or concerns during this time, please contact Nancy McClanahan.
Nancy’s contact info …..Cell phone # 832-583-6022 …..email,
txnancy@hotmail.com.
Here is the online registration
link…https://public.
y=e92d5642-16a8-403b-acaf-
I have been reading a great book, Married to a Pastor’s Wife by H.B.London
and Neil B. Wiseman. I want to pass along to you the first couple of
paragraphs of the first chapter. Read it and be encouraged!!! Male
spouses, know that this is for you also. It does not include you since the
book is about pastors’ wives. But it IS about you since you are the most
important person in your wife’s ministry.
Our hats are off to you!!!!
“Hats off to all women married to pastors. These ladies of faith
deserve many 21 gun salutes, thunderous applause, and stunning bouquets.
Let’s celebrate their faithfulness – light the fireworks, strike up the
band, call out the cheerleaders, organize 10,000 parades, buy out the
confetti in every store. Let’s cheer and whistle as these unheralded
heroines of Christianity take their well-deserved bows.
Without these women’s spunk and tenacity, many pastors would quit
before next Sunday. Without many of them working in the secular marketplace
as breadwinners, pastors’ families could not survive financially – so they
would have to leave the ministry. And without their Kingdom involvement,
many congregations would lose their most dynamic spark plug for getting a
lot of good done in the name of Christ.
Ladies, we celebrate the amazing vigor you bring to the work of God.
Though many ministry settings are difficult, the whole church is not in
flames. All the wonderful work being done in local congregations does not
appear on the front pages of newspapers or in lead articles of clergy
magazines. In a thousand and one places, women married to ministers are
making miraculous contributions to the well-being of the church and the
salvation of the world.”
Be encouraged…..keep up the great work you are doing!!!!
Margaret Fort, your clergy spouse president
Calling all Walk to Emmaus and Chrysalis Participants for Jan. 20-21!
Have you experienced God’s amazing grace and the power of the Holy Spirit at a Walk to Emmaus or Chrysalis weekend? There is a community behind each walk or flight that serves to bring the weekend into being for pilgrims and caterpillars. Each weekend is designed for the participants to deepen their relationship with Christ and to go out into the world to share Christ. The N.E.T. Emmaus Community in our area has invited the South Central Emmaus and Chrysalis representatives to come and help each of us and all of us to prepare for walk/flight weekends, sponsor people, support reunion groups, and train clergy and laity in leadership. Please come and join us as we strengthen what we do as the Body of Christ for the world!
Leaders: Rev. Mike Cave, Carleen Alderman,& Pat Miller
Location: Tennison UMC, 313 N. Church St.,
Mt. Pleasant, TX 75455
Dates: Friday, Jan. 20, 5-9 p.m. Clergy Training
Lay folks are invited and welcome to join the clergy to discover how the clergy partner with the laity and the walks are designed to lead the pilgrims to a closer walk with Christ.
Saturday, Jan. 21, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Lay Training
Laity will look at reunion groups, sponsorship, training, weekend planning, and more.
Meals will be provided.
RSVPs are essential!!! RSVP to Rev. Debbie Riggsby, email at deborah817@suddenlink.net, call 903-243-3333 (cell), or text 903-243-3333. Please include your name and number of people attending.
SPECIAL NOTE: Clergy, if you have attended a walk or flight, please email Debbie Riggsby atdeborah817@suddenlink.net with your contact info (name, address, phone, email, and walk/flight info) ASAP as we try to update our clergy directory! Many thanks!
The Wesley at Kilgore College is hosting a Golf Tournament and Chili Cookoff on Friday, November 11, 2011 at Meadowbrook Country Club. Registration begins at 10:00 a.m. with lunch, cook-off and Shotgun start following. The cost is $75 per person which includes: green fees and cart for two, chili lunch, gift bag, range balls, door prize entry, and more.
For more information download the brochure or contact the Wesley at Kilgore College by phone, 903-984-6922 or on the web at www.kcwesley.org.
These two events at our South Central Jurisdiction Retreat Center in November may be a valuable resource for your churches.
Please remember to attend this year’s Sunday’s Best –Wiley Style solo gospel competition on Sunday, October 30th, 6:30 p.m., at the Julius S. Scott, Sr. Chapel. For more detailed information please see the attached flyer.
See ya there!
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