Yesterday, Ron Dozier brought Fashion Statement to a close with a message called "Hand Me Downs." It's been an eventful seven weeks: we prepared 193,000 meals for Fed Up Sunday, collected 1310 shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child, and had a surge of worship...

I have found that in church life, the more you prepare to receive guests, the more guests you will receive.It even happened back at Mt. Carmel Church in Monroe, NC, a congregation I served from 1990-1999. Once we put a plan in place that all first time guests would...