Happy Thanksgiving! I am so grateful we get to “be the church” in such a time as this! We need each other and our community needs us! Not all thanksgiving is “happy” but I find that often feelings follow actions and the act of giving thanks can lift the spirits when we...
Trunk or Treat Explained Back when we noticed that Halloween would fall on Saturday, we made a decision to cancel our Saturday gatherings, not for Halloween but to serve our community. This ran counter to how I viewed Halloween for most of the years we were raising our kids...
Pastor Randy provides some updates on building our team through the elder board and the Creative Arts Director. He encourages us to finish the year strong in our Bible reading by inviting us to read the New Testament with him through the end of the year. He also offers a few other updates coming...
CATCHING UP Since it’s been awhile since I’ve written, there is a lot to catch up with. “Thank you Thunder Mountain!” Lori’s Place. Did you know that the conviction rate for sex crimes soars from 20% to over 90% when Lori’s Place gets involved? When Mike and...
Word from the Lord? After we stopped gathering physically, the Lord led us to do a series we couldn’t have done “live” four times a weekend, and this lasted an additional six weeks. When we “reopened” on May 30-31 (after being exclusively online for ten...
What does it mean to“Be the Church”? 23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but...
GLS20 Report First what a great team that puts this on and what a great partnership we enjoy with Village Meadows Baptist Church! I love the servant’s hearts of our people who put in six months of work so that people can grow in their influence! Of the approximately 150 people who...
DANGER! DANGER! In the 1960’s there was a low budget sci-fi show on TV that became memorable for ONE thing and that was not for the quality or the accuracy (it was supposed to forecast 1997 lol!). It was for a small robot who would roll into the scene declaring the warning, “DANGER!...
GLS IS HERE! How to prepare? I want to start by saying how much I appreciate the many of you who are willing to invest in your own leadership development! This year is the highest registration by TMC attendees in the last three years and one of the highest ever! 1. Find your email from Global...
While we continue to meet both online and in person, our physical campus and staff look different! CONNECTION SPACE Remember when it was mentioned that we would be building connection space as a place to have barbecues where we would be able to get NFL Sunday Ticket? WELL...