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Forrestdale Gospel Community

We have many challenges ahead of us, one of which is just discipling Jesus’...

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Knowing Your Neighbours?

A simple tool is helping churches in Arvada, Colorado, know and love their ...

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People Matter to God

Consider your own Christian community. How can you capitalize on your diffe...

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Report to Classes - Autumn 2012

Take the blink test!   This is what Jack De Vries encourages chur...

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MISSION MANAGER NEEDED!

We are calling for applications for a Mission Manager for the SWIM base in ...

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The U-Turn Church - New Direction for Health and Growth

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In our churches there are times when we need to take a new direction. ...

I Stand by the Door

stand_by_the_door“I stand by the door.  I neither go too far in, nor stay too far out.  The door is the most important door in the world - it is the door through which men walk when they find God. There is no use my going way inside and staying there, when so many are still outside and they, as much as I, crave to know where the door is.   And all that so many ever find is only the wall where the door ought to be.  They creep along the wall like blind men ....” Sam Shoemaker (1893–1963), an Episcopal priest who was instrumental in founding the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous, shares in this short piece of prose the passion that ought to mark every follower of Christ, a passion to see the lost found and enfolded into the body of Christ.

by Sam Shoemaker

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