Last week Pastor Tim begins a new sermon series entitled, Handling Negative Emotions. Hopefully, the sermons will be very helpful to you but if you feel that you need more personalized help, please contact Pastor Tim at 336-692-3237 or email timanne@bellsouth.net Remember, God never intended for us to live the Christian life alone. We are supposed to bear one another’s burdens.
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Family Game Night a Success!
Dear Friends,
We had a wonderful time Friday at Family Game Night. I believe we had the greatest number of visitors so far. We look foward to having even more of you join us next month. Even if you hate having fun, please try to make it to the next FGN and suffer for Jesus’ sake. 🙂 Okay, I’m being a little sarcastic, but you get the point. I love you all and I believe if we work together, we can make a difference in Winston-Salem. FGN makes serving easy and fun!
Pastor Tim
Helping our Family in Egypt
If you are a Christian, you have family all over the world. Baptist Equipping Nationals (B.E.N.) is a unique missions agency that GreenTree supports and that runs a seminary in Egypt. B.E.N. is collecting funds to help our brothers and sisters there as they are under extreme financial and safety concerns right now. If you would like to give, please do so through GreenTree by labeling the amount on your offering envelope as “Egypt.” One hundred percent of this will go to B.E.N. to be given to needy believers in Egypt.
Friendship
Note from the Pastor:
I want to take this opportunity to tell you how much I appreciate your friendship. Of course, I haven’t known some of you long enough to call you more than an acquaintance, but I hope that will change. A few of you I haven’t gotten to know very well even though I have known you for a while. Most of you I can call friends of mine, and that makes me feel like a rich man.
Friendship is as ordinary as air, but like air it is very precious. Deep, satisfying friendships hardly ever just happen. Instead, they are developed with great effort over a long time. The older you get, the more you see how rare a truly good and loyal friend is. “A friend loves at all times…” Proverbs 17:17.
If you have a good friend, be sure to tell them how much they mean to you. Be sure to be loyal. And remember, a great friendship can start with, “Hi, my name is…what’s yours?”
Privilege & Responsibility
Words like responsibility and commitment sometimes seem negative to us because it feels like so often we are being asked to take a responsibility or make a commitment. It can be overwhelming. In fact, sometimes others try to manipulate us into taking on responsibilities by making us feel guilty. Sometimes we over-commit and find ourselves in a rat race that is anything but fun. However, many responsibilities are linked to privileges. The ability to see the benefit of taking on a responsibility helps us become more willing to do so or to continue in an existing responsibility. In light of this, please consider the value of the Wednesday evening Growth Group. If you are being helped, then sign up on the back table to help with child care or food to allow the Wednesday Growth Group to continue to be a great ministry.
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