BENEVOLENCE OF THE MONTH
DiscipleLife-Alive!
DiscipleLife-Alive!
Disciplelife-Alive! is about mission. Disciplelife-Alive is about better training, better equipping, and better serving all of the members in our mission area (formerly the NTNL Synod). Disciplelife-Alive is also about consolidating our resources into a centralized location which we already own, Briarwood Retreat Center. After much prayer, discussion, and discernment, it seems as if the Holy Spirit is leading us into a new way to be a "synod," mission area, or more to the point, CHURCH together.
When we pool our resources, we have much that we can learn from each other around our mission area. With a centralized mission center, we can gather from all corners as well as broadcast out to those unable to travel long distances for training. With a few additions and some added technology, everyone in our mission area will be able to benefit from professional teachers, theologians, and "hands on" evangelists who can help teach and train us to be better sowers and growers of disciples for Jesus Christ.
I am thankful that our leaders are helping us focus on mission and outreach. I am thankful that we will soon have new opportunities to learn how to reach folks in our community who desperately need a word of hope. I am thankful that we are still learning how to be better stewards of the tremendous resources with which God has already blessed us.
Let us be generous in our support of Disciplelife-Alive! Let us be a congregation who is willing to step out in faith with the idea that there really are things that we can do better together than we can do by ourselves. Let us support the excitement building for better teaching, training, and transmitting the good news of Jesus Christ. Let us support Disciplelife-Alive through our benevolence of the month!
