The time is getting close. Our church will have to mount up, flyers in hand, and hit the streets of the neighborhood. We have scheduled our VBS for the last week of July. The Uth Kwoir from Trietsch Memorial UMC in Flower Mound will be coming to Oak Haven to help us put on this event—more on that another post.The family and I did the inviting for the Easter Egg Hunt in April. I think that event was a great success. One member said it was the best they...
The Strategic Planning Team of the North Texas Conference recently launched its website. You can visit the site at:www.holyconferencing.com. I have joined the discussion forum. This will be a good place for me to connect with members of the conference; I haven't done so well in that department my first year here. It will also help keep me, and some of you, up to speed with work of the planning team. Take a look and let me know what you think about the...
Last week we had a pretty big storm roll through DFW. We had rain water come in our two offices. My office is the one with carpet. Oh joy! So, right now I have some of my stuff up off the floor in my office and the rest of it stuffed into the other office as we wait for the carpenter to replace the flooring. Nope, I’m not complaining; there are much worse things that could be happening. The carpet will be replaced and all will be well--and the Cowboy...
Yep, some of the redecorating was planned while some of it was nature’s way of getting us moving. I’ll share nature’s work later on. We, in my opinion, enhanced our worship space this past week. This Sunday will be the first worship service with the new set up. It’s real simple.We turned the pews at an angle (as much as we could) so they are sort of forming a circle. Oh yes, the theology of circle. Also, we decided to keep an additional three banners...
Here are churches I have served before. Yes, I know about the church not being buildings....but come on! That would be a lot of people to show.El Buen Pastor (Mercedes, TX) of the Rio Grande ConferenceMercedes FUMC (Mercedes, TX) of the Southwest Texas Annual ConferenceEdinburg FUMC (Edinburg, TX)Bandera UMC (Bandera, TX) Oak Haven UMC in Irving,...
