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and left his family behind to fight against the Union armies (17-18). Three years later, the war had reached Tant’s home in northern Georgia. The homestead that he had labored to establish there was destroyed five days before the Battle of New Hope Church occurred, leaving his wife and three young sons to fend for themselves amid a hostile environment (12-15). This was J.D. Tant’s first taste of what the world offered. The years following the War, his parents did what they could to provide for their

or as camp staff at Camp Don Lee. The camp has a loose affiliation with the North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church (NCCUMC). The Conference once owned the three camps within its geographic boundaries and provided a significant portion of those camps’ funding. In 1992 the Conference transferred ownership of the camps to a new non-profit, North Carolina United Methodist Camp & Retreat Ministries, Inc. (NCUMCRM). Today, the Conference provides logistical and limited financial support

persistent loving response to us. Then in as such, challenged by our lack of response to God. Maddox fine tunes Wesley’s approach to God’s accumulative, yet, fluid ‘types’ of grace towards humanity, while Heitzenratzer covers Wesley’s birthing of Methodist doctrine, discipline and practice within a modern lexicon and ‘good ole’ Outler continues to share Wesley’s meticulous day to day faith conundrums and conversions. First, I wish to touch on Maddox idea around responsible grace. Just as the word

There is numerous church literature that provide insights and recommendations for church growth. However, a majority of the literature uses anecdotal context for their measurements. An examination of recent quantitative metrics provides further insight into reversing church growth trends towards healthy and vital congregations. Paramount to the use of the data, the model utilizes worship attendance as the foundation or principal variable. The component incorporates all United Methodist churches that

On Wednesday, June 17th, 2015 at around 9:05pm, a group of people gathered to attend a bible study session at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Dylann Roof attended the session and was welcomed by the group. An hour into their session, when the group began their prayer, Roof pulled out a glock 41 .45-caliber handgun (2015) and ended the lives of nine of the fourteen group members. In the aftermath of attack, all our nation could do is ask, “Why?” Why someone

Church Camp Counseling For community service I worked at Lake Lucerne Camp - Wisconsin United Methodist Church for two weeks, one week of training and one week of assistant counseling. The first week of training consisted of all the adult councilors and everyone (high schoolers) who signed up for the Leaders In Training (LIT) Program. The LIT group was the only group there besides the church group Rizing Sun, a group of children from kindergarten to twelfth grade who all have one or more parents

service projects for the community, non-profit organization, or church in hopes of spreading good will among those affected by these actions. They also must be available to offer support to individuals who walk in and require the outreach coordinator’s services. Jeanna-Mar Simmons, a family friend, generously allowed me to shadow her on April 24, 2014. This wonderful lady is the outreach coordinator for Christ United Methodist Church. During my shadow, I was able to discover the intricacies of the

On behalf of the, 2010 Call to Action Steering Committee of The United Methodist Church, the following UMC Vitality Indexes are provided to the denomination research on the characteristics and common practices of highly-vital congregations within the Church. The following models utilize the Annual Local Church Reports to model churches progress or change over time. We believe that the use of metrics and the creation of a Vitality Index is an important step forward in helping the denomination develop

reading this book and evaluating Grace United Methodist Church, I have noticed several things that need to be fixed. One of the main things is the youth group lesson focus and the way the youth relate to one another. One of the things that I have learned from reading Dean’s book is that everything you do has to be tied back to the Bible. I have always known that everything has to have a purpose when it involves youth. I know that by working in a church you need to include the Bible in what you do

was presented in a mannerism that was extremely radical, Walker uses the bible and what can most clearly be defined as a Methodist theology to support his stance on the issues of society. David Walker was “born a