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Guidelines For A Mission Team No One Will Ever Forger…Ever!
Guidelines For A Mission Team No One Will Ever Forget…Ever! With summer behind us churches will no doubt begin the process for choosing mission trips for next year. Before making your choices here is a true story of one team who came to our church to minister… Their Guidelines…”First of all choose a location that […]
TOP 4 WAYS TO LEAVE WELL IN MINISTRY
When (not if) we are faced with leaving a ministry, as staff or volunteer, it is vital that we do so in a manner worthy of the God we serve. Period. What I have learned over the past 25 years is that we can leave well or not well. Leaving a ministry is part of […]
Something to Think About
i (heart) tim keller “Jesus’ teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing, religious people of His day. However, in the main, our churches today do nothave this effect. The kind of outsiders Jesus attracted do not bothercoming to our churches, even our most avant-garde ones. We tend to draw buttoned-down, moralistic people. The licentious and liberated or the broken […]
Why Connecting is Critical in Ministry
Recently when sharing about his ministry a youth pastor said “you attract people like youself.” Though I agree with his statement the fact is a ministry will never reach full potential if you stop there. This pastor had a youth ministry that had decreased to a small number and I was asking questions to evaluate […]
Make God Laugh
(from Todd) “The mind of man plans his way, But the Lord directs his steps.” Proverbs 16:9 Someone once said that if you want to make God laugh share your plans with Him. If this is true God has had a good chuckle with the Seeley’s. After returning to Madison from NYC […]
The Purpose of Life in A Nutshell
(Once a quarter I share a guest blog post with my readers. Because of a number of people in my life going thru some type of adversity I have chosen to share this interview by Pastor Rick Warren.) You will enjoy the new insights that Rick Warren has, with his wife now having cancer and […]
Trusting God in the Dark
When I left Birmingham that November for Colorado Springs it was already dark. After a year on staff at Briarwood Church in Birmingham The Navigators had recruited me. I was eager and excited. Within a few hours I was on an isolated highway in Mississippi. The headlights on my car were the only light for […]
Does Your Church Have Walls?
Last night as Todd and I lay in bed we got into a discussion about the church. We actually arrived at that topic when I told him about a Honda car I owned during my early days on staff with a para-church organization in San Diego. The car had served me well relocating me from […]
What Made My Mother’s Day A Memory
Today I want to want to share what made my Mother’s Day so special. It is nothing unique and has happened every year since my first born was 4. If you have children it probably happens at your house too. What makes my Mother’s Day a special memory is the home made card. I love […]
6 Things Every Woman Needs
Women are searching today as never before for fulfillment and purpose in life. What can fill the deepest longings of a woman’s soul ? Many answers are being given. Where is a woman to find peace in a storm, joy in adversity or hope in pain and loss? At 22 years old I wrote out […]
