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Staff Appreciation: Jared Dorton
This year Staff Parish has decided to celebrate October as not only Clergy Appreciation Month but Staff Appreciation Month. Each week we will highlight different GSUMC staff and what their favorite things are. Please use this information to find some way to secretly or not so secretly celebrate them one time or many times. You can also write them a note of appreciation. It is up to you! Jared Dorton, Minister of Youth Birthday: September 29th List Your Favorite: College…
Daily Devotional: November 20th, 2019
THE ACT OF GIVING Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it, according to your means. 2 Corinthians 8:11 Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Luke 6:38 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my…
This week we finish how to live a Generous Life with ?Celebrating our 5 Covenants?…don’t forget to bring and fill out your covenant cards!
Good Evening! This week we survived our first snow of the season with bitter cold and thankfully temperatures have finally rebounded. And tomorrow the key word will be Celebration. At worship, it will be celebrating our 5 covenants of a Generous Life and tomorrow night we will be A Celebration of YOU all of you our faithful servants! And I would ask special prayers for my dad Jerry Squires he is in the hospital awaiting his kidneys doing better to have…
Prayer for People Living with HIV/AIDS
Original Text published by the United Methodist Church View Original Post Here World AIDS Day is December 1 and December is AIDS Awareness Month. United Methodists believe that people with HIV have the right to full participation in the church and society. This prayer for those living with HIV/AIDS was shared recently at the Breaking Barriers Conference sponsored by the United Methodist Global AIDS Committee and we asked some of those present to read it. We invite you to watch this video and share it in your own congregations and…
“Count Your Blessings”: An Antidote to Despair
A UMC.org feature by Crystal Caviness* Originally posted on UMC.org Count your blessings. Name them, one by one. This simple mandate for cultivating gratitude and thanksgiving is the opening line in the catchy chorus of “Count Your Blessings,” a church music staple first published more than a century ago. All these years later, the four verses and chorus can be summed up this way: Counting your blessings may be the antidote to feeling disheartened. The remaining line of the chorus…
We are the people of The United Methodist Church
Originally posted by the United Methodist Church View Original Post Here Meet the people of The United Methodist Church. We are making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world through our shared faith, mission and ministry.
Good Shepherd UMC Receives $10,000 Grant for Minibus
Originally posted by Golden Cross Foundation View Original Post Here Members of Seasoned Shepherds love the new mini bus at Good Shepherd United Methodist Church in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Made possible in part by a grant from the Golden Cross Foundation, the bus safely and comfortably transports a variety of groups from youth to senior adults to Room in the Inn guests. Good Shepherd United Methodist Church in Hendersonville, Tennessee, received a $10,000 grant from the Golden Cross Foundation, a non-profit…