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Open Door Class Feeds Less Fortunate: December 9, 2009

tsims — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:49:20 +0000

Members of the Open Door Sunday School Class provided food for and / or served some of the less fortunate in our community when they did the Power Meal at Mt. Calvary UM Church on Wednesday, December 9, 2009. The menu included fried chicken, salad, corn salad, green bean casserole, sweet potato casserole, au grautin potatoes, bread, pecan & pumpkin pie, and cookies.

Thank you to Ann Bowling, Garland Dean, Wanda Hoffman,
Gary Sparks, Paul & Patti Stillson, Retha Stone, and Kris & Paula Tilker
for your ministry!

Open Door Class Makes a Donation to Heifer International

tsims — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:51:34 +0000

Heifer International is an organization, which “teaches a person to fish” (so to speak). Through financial donations they give people in need throughout the world animals such as oxen (for milk and or farming), goats (for milk production), chickens (for egg production), bees (for honey production), etc. Thus, this helps provide them with food and the resources to be entrepreneurs, selling their produce.

The Open Door Sunday School recently sent a $500 donation, which buys a heifer. If you’d like more information about or would like to make a donation to this worthwhile cause, you can contact the Open Door Class or Heifer International.

New Study in Open Door Sunday School – August 2

tsims — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:14:10 +0000

Join the Open Door Sunday School Class, beginning August 2, for a study led by Rev. Troy Sims on how to understand the Gospel of John – which is quite different than Matthew, Mark, and Luke and must be looked at in a different manner in order to properly understand it.

For more information about the Open Door Class (which meets in Rec. Lobby in Rm 2-R), contact Alan Ballard (940-766-4863).

Open Door Class Begins Studying the Latest Spong Book

tsims — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:57:52 +0000

On Sunday, April 5, 2009, the Open Door Sunday School Class began studying the latest book by Bishop John Shelby Spong, Jesus for the Non-Religious. In this book, Spong invites his readers to look at Jesus through the lens of both the Jewish scriptures and the liturgical life of the first-century synagogue. Dismissing the dispute about Jesus’ nature that consumed the church’s leadership for the first 500 years of Christian history as irrelevant, Spong proposes a new way of understanding the divinity of Christ: as the ultimate dimension of a fulfilled humanity.

For more information, contact Alan Ballard: 940-766-4863.