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November Newsletter

by George | Nov 14, 2015 | Newsletter

November is the month where people’s lives get busy – very, very busy. There is the Thanksgiving meal, trying to get a jump on Christmas shopping, and decorating the house. For some, it’s also time to make sure those Christmas cards are ready to go out.

But November is also the month of thankfulness. It is a time where we are reminded to stop all of the busyness – for a day at least – and be thankful. I know that I have a lot to be thankful for. I am thankful for you, your prayers, and continued support of our ministry.

Though the year is winding down, it is not winding down for our ministry. We are planning Thanksgiving meals at Dutch Gardens MHP on Sunday, November 22 at 1 p.m. and Willow Way Apartments on Monday, November 23 at 6:30 p.m.Please come and join us for a time of fellowship. Let us share a meal with you and your loved ones. Or help us serve one another.

Looking ahead to December, we are planning a Christmas play and party at 1 p.m. Sunday, December 13 at Dutch Gardens. We need donations of small toys, stocking stuffers and candy for this event.

Exciting plans for 2016 are being prayerfully formulated. As the ministry grows, we plan to go to many new locations to share the love of Christ and minister to new groups of people. If your church or youth group would like to help us with block parties, Easter egg hunts or Vacation Bible School, please let us know.

Also, don’t forget our regular events that we have on a weekly basis. Each Monday night, we have a dinner and Bible study at Willow Way Apartments in Rome. This weekly gathering of people has developed into a strong and cohesive group. We welcome anyone to come enjoy food and fellowship with us. On Sundays we have a worship service and lunch at Dutch Gardens MHP. It is also a small group, but a good one.

Please pray with us and for us – for the leaders, workers, resources, open doors and chances for many people to be reached with the good news and love of Jesus. We also need bilingual volunteers, as there is a high population of Latinos in these communities.

A dream of ours is to acquire a bus – old or new – which would be used as a mobile outreach center. Special events and regular meetings could be held there. It adds “legs” to our ministry. Help us pray about having this resource to help others.

And why not consider joining our team? You can still attend your favorite local church and be a local ambassador and missionary for Christ with us at the same time! Help us be the hands and feet of Jesus!

Scripture For The Heart of A Small Group Leader

by George | Sep 4, 2015 | Community News

Scripture For The Heart of A Small Group Leader.

All types of people can be successful small group leaders. We sometimes believe that it takes a special kind of person to be a leader or a great Bible Theologian to be able to lead a small group. The most important thing to remember is that God is more concerned with our heart than our ability. We so often hear that God does not call the qualified but qualifies the called. So who can lead a small group Bible study? Good News, You do not have to be perfect in order to lead a small group. What is important is that you are continuing to grow in spiritual maturity and that your heart is continually seeking after God. God’s Word helps us understand some of the traits that should be present in the life of any spiritual leader.

Scripture For The Heart of A Small Group Leader:

Hebrews 10:24-25

And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

1 Thessalonians 5:11

Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

Matthew 18:20

For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”

Proverbs 27:17

Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

Acts 2:46

And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts,

Ephesians 4:15-16

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

Acts 2:42

And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.

Acts 5:42

And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.

Acts 20:20

How I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house,

Acts 2:40-4

And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation.” So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls. And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. And all who believed were together and had all things in common. …

2 Timothy 3:16-17

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.

John 13:34-35

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Psalm 133:1

A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!

Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Galatians 6:2

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

James 5:16

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Hebrews 3:13

But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

2 Timothy 2:2

And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

Mark 3:13-15

And he went up on the mountain and called to him those whom he desired, and they came to him. And he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them out to preach and have authority to cast out demons.

Matthew 28:19-20

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Acts 2:46-47

And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.

Acts 1:13-14

And when they had entered, they went up to the upper room, where they were staying, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas the son of James. All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

Romans 12:10

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

Romans 8:28

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

1 Corinthians 14:26

What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.

Acts 6:1-6

Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution. And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables. Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty. But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” And what they said pleased the whole gathering, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch. …

Deuteronomy 4:10

How on the day that you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, the Lord said to me, ‘Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.’

Exodus 18:13-21

The next day Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning till evening. When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning till evening?” And Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God; when they have a dispute, they come to me and I decide between one person and another, and I make them know the statutes of God and his laws.” Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good. …

Psalm 119:29-30

Put false ways far from me and graciously teach me your law! I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I set your rules before me.

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