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Your first time
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No I am not meaning sex. I am meaning teaching/preaching. How many teach or preach? Were you super nervous your first time? How have you countered that and what tools have you utilized to sharpen that gift? I have only taught Sunday school twice and spoken what was on my heart three four times maybe. But...
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Altar Guidelines
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Hi, All:
We had a situation last Wednesday night at church. I was home sick w/ the kids, so I missed it. We had a lady come to the church. It was her second time there. She asked prayer for her father who was dying w/ cancer. I think, dh asked her to come up front to stand in...
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Kids' Festival Update
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Summer Splash...our church's first ever Christian Festival for Kids (and the whole family!) was a smashing success!!!
And I don't say this lightly. After the two-night kids' crusade, I was actually crying and depressed because I didn't get the numbers I had prayed for. YP spent a go...
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People who try to appoint others - ever had this happen?
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Hey everybody...just want to know if I'm the only one this ever happens to. I'm dealing with a situation right now that is like this -- have faced it before and just wonder how often any of you have it happen.
When someone steps down from a ministry, do you ever have the case where they try to appoi...
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Deanna
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Bivocation partII
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Alright! I put it before God in prayer that since I could not discern what was in my heart that He would have to let things work out in His perfect plan. I honestly was not able to hear him in the matter of selling my machine. I wanted to sell it and cultivate ministry and my teaching. I did not want to have to ge...
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Bivocation
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How many of you are bivocational? Not your dh but you, yourselves? Part time or full time?
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Breaking the "boys' club" - rant!!
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Our YP and I just got back from a week at junior high camp, and this issue has been at the forefront of our minds...that is, the pastors who are excluded from the larger group of "important" pastors in our district. Many of them are women who are just as licensed, credentialed, and/o...
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This may help all of us
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I was wondering, ladies, what kind of special things do you do for your staff and those special people in ministry who gives their all to the ministry. Do you give them birthday gifts, or banquets, or quarterly gifts? I just wanted to know b/c we have really good people who work real hard at...
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Prayer for Summer Splash '05
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I'm asking for all the prayer I can get, from anyone who will pray:
In two days, our church's FIRST EVER Kids' Crusade kicks off, ending with a HUGE community barbecue on Sunday afternoon. This is my first time ever preaching at a kids' crusade, and our church's first foray into something this...
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Shoes
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No, I am not going to ask what kind of shoes you were when you preach/teach. LOL! Due to my recent post on pants, I thought I would go ahead and get that out of the way.
Anyway, on to more serious things. I can't remember who it was, or what post it was in, but someone menti...
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Prayer Requests
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Hi, Ladies:
I have a several prayer requests:
1. Ds3 is sick again. He was sick less than 2 weeks ago. He was burning up w/ fever & complaining of severe headache & stomachache. He got better. Then Sunday night at church he started burning up w/ fever again &...
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Destiny's Closet testimony
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I just wanted to share a testimony with you all...
As you all know, I am a contract administrative person on the side and currently I have been contracted (for about a year) by the local union. Well, as aprt of that, I have also been able to pick up additional work by doing resumes for people and have had a...
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While I was gone...
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...my DH and some friends finished building our castle (our kid's area, complete with puppet window towers), a family who had left the church awhile back [before my time!] called the pastor and apologized and asked if they could come back, and 15 NEW PEOPLE have signed up for the new Alpha cour...
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I'm back too!!!
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Hey guys, I'm back too! I was gone the past three days, in Cocoa Beach, FL with my "Titus Project" young women's mentoring group. I took them on a 3 day retreat there. WE HAD A BLAST!
Wow, it's so great that it's actually part of my JOB to be sitting out on the beach with college girls....
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Pants
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I have a question that I would like to pose to the group. Recently I have seen several women preachers/pastors and worship leaders in pants every time I see them on TV. I do not have a problem with women wearing pants to church. I wear them myself to Bible study and over e...
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