Please consider attending the Journey to Generosity this Saturday, May 1, 9 A.M. – 1 P.M., in the Gathering Place.
Living a life of generosity is a process and a journey. Many of us want to be generous people, but we do not always know where to begin. If you want to move farther on the journey toward generosity, then we encourage you to join us on Saturday. We will look at practical ways to manage finances, look at testimonies from those who are embracing lives of generosity and spend time focusing on ways God is leading us toward lives of good fruit.
This seminar will be presented by Rick Carder, Minister of Life Stewardship at Richland Hills Church of Christ. Child care will be provided. Cost is $10 per person or $15 per couple, but please don’t let the cost keep you from attending. For more information or to register, visit www.glenwoodchurch.com > Events > The Journey to Generosity. Please contact Ben Siburt if you have any questions.
This is the sixth Sunday built around our 40 days of prayer and fasting.
Week 1- Wayne Propst urged us in our transition time to recognize The Blessing of God that can occur while we pray and fast. Especially in the fast paced world we live in, we should be still and wait before our God and know He is with us.
Week 2- Dewayne Manning urged us to let our time of approaching Gods be without any agenda and to sincerely seek The Voice of God
Week 3- Reggie Howell asked us as the People of God to put away our frantic busyness of schedules and empty ourselves so we can be truly be God’s people.
Week 4- Gregg Grubb reminded us that God’s Spirit is poured out on all of His people and throughout history it is God’s Spirit that enters our lives and when that happens everything changes.
Week 5- Wayne helped us to look at the kind of leadership that we seek is one that reflects the one true and living God.
Glenwood will present a seminar
‘The Journey to Generosity’ Saturday, May 1
9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the Gathering Place.
Generosity is a journey. Nobody ever comes to a place in their life and says, “I’m generous, now what can I work on?” With generosity, there is no destination. Although, we know generosity is much more than money, finances play a major role in determining where our hearts truly are – therefore, financial generosity will be a main point of discussion. It is my hope and desire to encourage those who are not on a journey, to put the habits in place in their lives so they can live generously and to encourage those on a journey of generosity to move further along. As Hebrews 10:24 says, “And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.”
This seminar will be presented by Rick Carder, Minister of Life Stewardship at Richland Hills Church of Christ. Child care will be provided. You must register any children so we have a count for babysitters. (No meals will be provided). We look forward to your attendance. Please contact Ben Siburt if you have any questions.
Please click here to register.
Area Vocal Groups Come Together for Free Community Concert
From Classical to Jazz, Barbershop to Gospel, area vocal groups of all sizes and genres come together to celebrate the beauty and magic of the human voice at the East Texas A Cappella Celebration. The free community concert will be held this Saturday, April 10, at 6 P.M., in the Glenwood Church of Christ auditorium. Participating groups include The Blessing (women’s contemporary worship), Clearly Vocal (five-voice vocal jazz), Faithful Praise (gospel), John Tyler High School Choir, Then & Now (barbershop quartet), TJC A Cappella Choir and UT Tyler Patriot Singers. Performers will combine for a grand finale, conducted by Dr. Cameron Rose, Director of Choral Activities for the University of Texas at Tyler. The event is presented as a partnership between UT Tyler and Clearly Vocal. (more…)
About Paul Faulkner
Paul Faulkner is founder and principal owner of Resources for Living, Ltd. (RFL), an international counseling and consulting company located in Austin, Texas; Quebec City, Canada; and Mexico City, Mexico. As a major provider of counseling to and through such major corporations as Wal-Mart, Kroger, and IBM, over three million individuals in North America can access mental health services through RFL. The company also provides nonprofit counseling to churches and other charitable organizations including the United Methodist Church, the Catholic Church, and World Vision. (more…)
Today we begin the fifth week of Footprints of Faith. This is a forty day period of prayer and fasting that was started on March 7. It is a period where we have been focusing on God’s Vision for Glenwood. A part of that Vision involves the preparation for the search of a new preaching minister as well as a children and women’s minister. Each week there has been a topic, a scripture and a prayer guide for our daily meditation. We have asked you to pray for God to give us wisdom as we focus on God’s will and vision for Glenwood. We encourage your response to the questions DeWayne Manning proposed several weeks ago regarding vision casting. Many of you have joined us in periods of fasting over the last four weeks. The forty days will officially end on Thursday April 15. Your Shepherds will meet for prayer and begin the process that will be used for the selection of new ministers. During this time, we ask that you continue to be in prayer for us and for unity here at Glenwood. (more…)
Footprints of Faith
Week 4: The Spirit of God
March 28-April 3, 2010
When Jesus quoted Isaiah 61 to his local congregation, as recorded in Luke Chapter 4, it was shocking and offensive to them. I think one reason for this is because they were not any more familiar or comfortable with the Scriptures contained in the books (or scrolls) of the prophets than we are. For the most part, the words of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Hosea, Joel, Amos, et al, were not comforting, but were intended to get the attention of God’s people and bring about repentance. We are much more comfortable reading the Books of Moses, or the Psalms or Proverbs than we are hearing judgment pronounced. But Jesus is bringing the Kingdom near, and these words from Isaiah are just right for that. (more…)
Footprints of Faith
Week 3: The People of God
March 21-27, 2010
The end of this week will mark the halfway point for our time of 40 days of prayer and fasting. This week we will focus on “The People of God.” We invite you to be in prayer this week so that we may embrace the promise that His faithfulness will continue through all generations, that this body at Glenwood will be a testimony to God’s unending love, and that we will be the face of Jesus to our community. (more…)
Week 2 – The Voice of God
A major part of prayer is listening to God and allowing Him to direct us.
We as a church are in the second week of our designated 40 Days of Prayer and Fasting, Footprints of Faith. Our purpose is to position ourselves as a church to hear God’s voice, to listen to Him, to ask for His guidance, to ask Him to make known His desire for us.
The decision from the Elders to invite the entire membership to join us in prayer and fasting came after a Visionary Planning Weekend and reading together a book entitled, Discerning Your Congregation’s Future. We want the entire Glenwood family to join us in prayers for God’s guidance for Glenwood’s future. This desire was in place prior to Jeff and Katie being called elsewhere. As a part of this period of prayer and fasting, we want to ask God’s guidance in the “minister search process”. We want it to be a part but not the central focus. (more…)
Today is the beginning of the six weeks that we have set aside for prayer and fasting. We want you to join us in this period. We are asking several things of you.
First, we ask that you pray daily. Ask that this body receive wisdom and discernment as we choose two new ministers. Pray for the person who is to come. Also pray for those applicants who want to come, but are not selected. Pray for the process that will be used to select these new ministers. We, as your Shepherds, have not decided what that process will look like yet…and will not decide until we complete the next six weeks of prayer and fasting. (more…)
