Yesterday . . . 2500 people . . . On two campuses . . . Packed this many meals now headed for Haiti . . . Which means that overall we've packed ONE MILLION meals as a church. A milestone I celebrated with a backhand gong bang.
Frequently Asked Questions What Are We Doing? We are harnessing all our Sunday morning people and energy and campuses to prepare and package over 280,000 Meals Ready To Eat (MREs). Where Is All This Food Going To End Up? After we prepare and package the meals, Stop...
I received this poignant note on the back of a Connection Card this past Sunday. The author is a guy who, along with his wife, has been driving over an hour each way to get to Good Shepherd on a Sunday morning. My family has been coming to this church for about 10...
On Sunday, I (briefly) announced a new initiative at Good Shepherd called #Invite9000. Huh? Well, here are the top five things you need to know about the project and, more importantly, how you can become part of it over the next twelve months. 1. It's a...
How to . . . Prepare a church to package 280, 000 meals on a Sunday morning? Launch a new initiative (with its own webpage!) called #Invite9000? Connect stewardship with evangelism? Include a terrific faith sharing testimony video from one of our guitar players? All...
The song "Question" is typical Moody Blues: overwrought, self-serious, and, in spite of itself, pretty good. In fact, as a teen it made a brief appearance in my "All Time Top Ten Songs" list (and yes, I still make those lists in my 50s). Here it is:...
On any given day, I’m called on to make a number of decisions. Usually, those decisions are strategic in nature: how best to align the staff, how most effectively to extend our influence, how to maximize the impact of our facilities. Sometimes I find those decisions...
Most of us in this current era assume that Methodists and emotion have an uneasy, awkward relationship. Now: Good Shepherd has its share of worship enthusiasm. There's clapping, amen-ing, and even the occasional "WOOH-ing," especially at our 11:30 gathering. So,...
Have you noticed people want you to take a stand these days? To make your decision, your position, your viewpoint known. It's true in politics, it's true in theology, and it's true in Methodism. And in thinking on these things I've realized that there are some topics...
Simul justus et peccator That's the Latin phrase Martin Luther used to describe the state of the human soul: simultaneously justified and sinful. And while I'm less Lutheran than I am Wesleyan, nevertheless, I wanted the people of Good Shepherd to catch at least a...