building a community to reach a community

Research tells us that each child needs five spiritual champions who will commit to playing a significant role in their faith journey. They don’t have to be seminary graduates with all the “right” answers, they just need to show up on purpose in the lives of children and care deeply about how they grow. Spiritual champions invest their time, their conversation, and their prayers into kids as they grow.

On Friday May 3, 2013 pilgrims from Grace Fellowship Church joined by others from different states and churches headed for the “Holy Land”. Needless to say a trip of a lifetime. Thousands of pictures were taken by these pilgrims in an attempt to seize a moment that they had seen with their own eyes. It was an incredibly awesome trip which I will attempt to touch on only a few of the places we visited...

I have been out of the loop recently due to a trip to Israel with some folks from GFC, Tri-cities, Florida and Ohio. It was a fantastic trip that left all of us with a deeper understanding of the Bible (never to be read the same again!). Indeed, impressions of modern life in Israel - both for Israelis and Palestinians, are also very vivid.

GFC is part of a weekday joint ministry that prepares and serves meals for the homeless, the elderly, and/or home-bound persons who have no resources to prepare a meal for themselves. Twenty-five area churches have signed up to serve, and GFC serves on the fourth Monday of every month. My name is Sue Doyle, and I am a member of the Shepherd’s Lunch committee that coordinates this effort.