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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 could ever recall here. Now, I’m sure people are convinced it’s worth the walk up and down the sidewalks and knocking on the doors—why I wanted just us to do it for that event. Consequently, more of us will be a part of the inviting process. Okay, I’m gonna goal set. I’m pushing for 100 kids. Depending on your church size, that may or may not sound significant. However, I think for us that will be a great (some might say impossible!) start in our attempts to revive our children’s ministry. If you’re at Oak Haven, don’t freak o...

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 site. Stay blessed...john

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 blue is gone. Shoveling the rain water out of the garage, however, was quite the fun experience—all four hours of it! Stay blessed…john

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 up in the sanctuary. Two will be on the side walls. Someone said they would serve the purpose of stained glass windows; I liked that connection. The third banner will be on a back wall; this will be the outgoing banner. We have two extra banners we’re using now, but we’re looking to buy two others and figure out what we want the outgoing banner to be. If you have any suggestions shoot ‘em this way. I was thinking of the “Go Out” type of message. I know; that’s real original. Another thought was to put the vision of the UMC—w...

This is a great sermon player. Not only does it work well, but its free! I hope it comes in handy. You can view my sermon network channel here , or click her e to download a podcast.

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 Conference Mercedes FUMC (Mercedes, TX) of the Southwest Texas Annual Conference Edinburg FUMC (Edinburg, TX) Bandera UMC (Bandera, TX) Oak Haven UMC in Irving, TX

I have read this story many times. This is the first time I've seen it on video. Funny.

Take the pole out of your own police car before you judge us!