Blog - 06/2008
Bibles & Wells in Uganda Update
This year at Na we gave all the shirt profits to build wells in Uganda and then sold $10 bookmarks and gave the profits to send Bible to Uganda. Your response was amazing. We raised $3,000 to build wells in Uganda and, get this, $19,000 to send Bibles to Uganda.
Doug Hayes leads the ministry, Covenant Mercies, that will be building the wells and getting the Bibles to Uganda. We asked him to give you a better idea of what these funds will mean to the people receiving clean water and Bibles…
Read More...Check out Resolved 2008
Last week two guys from our team--Scott Schefferstein and Matt Wahl--went to check out the Resolved conference in California. They loved it.
Scott says: “The Resolved team did an outstanding job orchestrating a great conference on Heaven and Hell. Both Matt and I received much truth and encouragement from the sessions & worship. We were blown away as the admin team blessed us in many ways and engagedus…
Read More...Feeding on God
One of the best resources I can recommend to people after Na to supplement what they learned is Mike Bullmore’s message “Feeding on God: Cultivating a Fruitful Life in the Word.” In the message Bullmore goes through four convictions we need to have about scripture, what our appropriate posture toward scripture should be, and gives some simple recommendations for spending time in God’s Word.
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Application 101 & Hermeneutics 101
We just uploaded two short and sweet guides on how to apply what you learned at Na 2008 and how to read your Bible better. Check them out.
Application 101: Helps you dig into a particular message you want to apply and has five principles to keep in mind as you change your Bible reading: Time, Place, Plan, Memorization, Involving Others.
Hermeneutics 101 : Seven questions to ask every Bible passage you come across in order to help you better interpret the passage and a short bibliography of other Hermeneutics resources.
Read More...Get in the GAP
I wanted to let you all know about a great opportunity to participate in worldwide mission in the UK by going over for 11 months and serving a church there.
To learn more check out the below info about GAP (Grow and Proclaim) from the GAP website or skip all that text and watch this video where Pete Greaseley, the Sr. Pastor at Christchurch, explains the program.
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