Sunday, March 15, 2009
Because you asked. There are people on a regular basis that stop me and ask, "exactly what does Disaster Assistance do? We are always glad to answer their questions. May I again talk with you about what we do and how we have been so successful in signing up so many people for bible study?
First of all, it is getting to be spring time and this can be a time of weather damage. We are ready to go. We go into an area, meet and work with the local Church of Christ, prepare and cook a good hot meal for often hundreds of people. This meal is served to them and they are told and know it is from the church of Christ. We are now able to give bible tracts out to the people where ever we are. We keep several on hand so that we can immediately give them out. We want them to know that the meal is made possible by caring Christians in the Churches of Christ. People often reply with such thanks as "Thank God for the Church of Christ".
We also help the local church unload supply trucks. When a supply truck pulls up to a congregation who has never been in a disaster before, everything can be overwhelming. We offer not only to help them unload the truck, but also show them how to store and distribute the supplies. Churches we have worked with are very pleased that we help them do this, because as I say the supply situation and how to properly get them out can be overwhelming.
The other effort in this evangelism work is to sign people up for a study of God's word. Believe me when you are there helping to supply them with food and other necessities, they know that these Christians really care. Actually,we have people that hear about our bible studies and come asking us to be signed up for a bible study. We have their names, address and telephone numbers and we work with the local church in setting up the bible studies. We have found that when members of the local church conduct the study or at least go with us on the study, students have a better connection with the local church and this helps them in there beginning days with the church.
Last summer during hurricane season, we set up over 500 bible studies for local churches.
Now a logical question, and I was asked this question today from a Christian in Florida, how do you get funds to do this? The only answer is from sacrificial Christians like you who are interested in helping people and have a special interest in evangelizing here at home. This is a great work. We don't have a paid staff, no paid advertising, etc. We are under the elders of the Alachua Church of Christ AlachuaChurch of Christ 14505 N.W. 145 ave. Alachua, Fl. 32615.
If you would like to volunteer to help, we would love to hear from you. You can certainly email me. I would be honored to hear from you. You can go to our Director's blogsite http://www.mikesmissionupdates.blogspot.com and find out more about this work in evangelism. I hope you will tell your local congregation about this work too.
If weather disaster strikes, you will be hearing from us,and we really mean this, if you can add this work to your prayer list, we would appreciate that too. Don
First of all, it is getting to be spring time and this can be a time of weather damage. We are ready to go. We go into an area, meet and work with the local Church of Christ, prepare and cook a good hot meal for often hundreds of people. This meal is served to them and they are told and know it is from the church of Christ. We are now able to give bible tracts out to the people where ever we are. We keep several on hand so that we can immediately give them out. We want them to know that the meal is made possible by caring Christians in the Churches of Christ. People often reply with such thanks as "Thank God for the Church of Christ".
We also help the local church unload supply trucks. When a supply truck pulls up to a congregation who has never been in a disaster before, everything can be overwhelming. We offer not only to help them unload the truck, but also show them how to store and distribute the supplies. Churches we have worked with are very pleased that we help them do this, because as I say the supply situation and how to properly get them out can be overwhelming.
The other effort in this evangelism work is to sign people up for a study of God's word. Believe me when you are there helping to supply them with food and other necessities, they know that these Christians really care. Actually,we have people that hear about our bible studies and come asking us to be signed up for a bible study. We have their names, address and telephone numbers and we work with the local church in setting up the bible studies. We have found that when members of the local church conduct the study or at least go with us on the study, students have a better connection with the local church and this helps them in there beginning days with the church.
Last summer during hurricane season, we set up over 500 bible studies for local churches.
Now a logical question, and I was asked this question today from a Christian in Florida, how do you get funds to do this? The only answer is from sacrificial Christians like you who are interested in helping people and have a special interest in evangelizing here at home. This is a great work. We don't have a paid staff, no paid advertising, etc. We are under the elders of the Alachua Church of Christ AlachuaChurch of Christ 14505 N.W. 145 ave. Alachua, Fl. 32615.
If you would like to volunteer to help, we would love to hear from you. You can certainly email me. I would be honored to hear from you. You can go to our Director's blogsite http://www.mikesmissionupdates.blogspot.com and find out more about this work in evangelism. I hope you will tell your local congregation about this work too.
If weather disaster strikes, you will be hearing from us,and we really mean this, if you can add this work to your prayer list, we would appreciate that too. Don
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
As this blog site is dedicated to evangelism, outreach, personal work, church growth, names that I use to basically mean the same thing, we want to bring a lesson on how to help make the church a center in the community.
As we are always ready to leave "on the spur of the moment" with "Disaster Assistance to help people, we may have to interrupt, but as long as we are home, Howell, Tennessee, we want to bring this lesson. It has helped us at Howell to reach others with the gospel and I hope it will help you too.
MAKING THE CHURCH A CENTER IN THE LIFE OF THE COMMUNITY
1.Where better to learn about Christianity than in church?
2. Where better to learn of Christian conduct than in church?
3. Where better to learn to grow spiritually than in church?
It has been said and I hear it often, in the "old days" people went to church a lot because there were few other places to go. Now I want to tell you, if I live to July 2, I will be 68. I was born and lived in the old days. There were plenty of places other than church to go. We had movie theaters, television, football games, basketball games, baseball games. We had cars. That did not keep us from going to church. By the way that still doesn't keep people from going to church. Turn on the television to nearly any religious program and what do you see? A building full of people. How many of these people do you suppose do not have any other place to go? You see we can help engage the community thru
the church.
When I was growing up the church was very much a center in our lives. It promoted activities with the teaching that promoted my spiritual growth. We can still do this and look to the scriptures for guidance.
Should there still be an opportunity for the church to be a center of people lives?
If the church a center of people's lives will this help them grow spiritually and the church grow numerically?
Can we,by effort and guidance from the scripture, encourage the church to be at the center of peoples' lives today?
YES! YES! YES!!!
In the coming days we will be discussing some ways that may help you make the church a center of life in the community. For those of us already working at that maybe we can share some ideas as to how to improve. If you have some suggestions to help, please email me at donhudsoncoc@gmail.com If you know of other who might profit from these lessons, please tell them about this blog www.donchudson.blogspot.com Don
As we are always ready to leave "on the spur of the moment" with "Disaster Assistance to help people, we may have to interrupt, but as long as we are home, Howell, Tennessee, we want to bring this lesson. It has helped us at Howell to reach others with the gospel and I hope it will help you too.
MAKING THE CHURCH A CENTER IN THE LIFE OF THE COMMUNITY
1.Where better to learn about Christianity than in church?
2. Where better to learn of Christian conduct than in church?
3. Where better to learn to grow spiritually than in church?
It has been said and I hear it often, in the "old days" people went to church a lot because there were few other places to go. Now I want to tell you, if I live to July 2, I will be 68. I was born and lived in the old days. There were plenty of places other than church to go. We had movie theaters, television, football games, basketball games, baseball games. We had cars. That did not keep us from going to church. By the way that still doesn't keep people from going to church. Turn on the television to nearly any religious program and what do you see? A building full of people. How many of these people do you suppose do not have any other place to go? You see we can help engage the community thru
the church.
When I was growing up the church was very much a center in our lives. It promoted activities with the teaching that promoted my spiritual growth. We can still do this and look to the scriptures for guidance.
Should there still be an opportunity for the church to be a center of people lives?
If the church a center of people's lives will this help them grow spiritually and the church grow numerically?
Can we,by effort and guidance from the scripture, encourage the church to be at the center of peoples' lives today?
YES! YES! YES!!!
In the coming days we will be discussing some ways that may help you make the church a center of life in the community. For those of us already working at that maybe we can share some ideas as to how to improve. If you have some suggestions to help, please email me at donhudsoncoc@gmail.com If you know of other who might profit from these lessons, please tell them about this blog www.donchudson.blogspot.com Don
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