Try This: Give a Sick Child the Chance to Give to Others

Reach out to your local children’s hospital and see if your church can offer a “mobile store,” where young patients can select gifts, which your church has donated, to give to their loved ones on such holidays as Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and Christmas.

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My Top 5 Books on Evangelism

The spiritual discipline of evangelism requires a faithful walk with the Lord, intentionality, understanding contexts, and connecting with people far from God.

Bethlehem Church: What You Celebrate, You Replicate

The power of storytelling is used throughout the year to proclaim God’s goodness to the congregation, and it seems to be affecting church growth positively.

The Danger of Attempting It Alone

It’s not just unwise to be without a church; it’s dangerous. And the reason it’s dangerous is because we aren’t strong enough to go at life with Christ on our own.