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Convocation
Feb. 6-9

Annual continuing education opportunity for clergy at Lake Junaluska, N.C.  
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March Forth for Children

March 2-3

Bienniel training event for children's ministry workers in Knoxville, Tenn.

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One Great Hour

of Sharing

March 18

Annual Sunday offering enables UMCOR to keep promises. Free bulletin inserts available

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Video Clip
On Saturdays from October to March, volunteers from Christ UMC, Asbury UMC, and other churches in Greeneville, Tenn., meet to cut and haul firewood. 
Greeneville Wood Ministry 2-3-12

 

For more information, visit the Greeneville Wood Ministry site.

 

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At Lunch with Asbury's Cliff Amos (291)

  

Two big disputes ahead at General Conference (279)

 

Swanson: Call to Action is God's call to promised land (223)

 

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We asked Katherine Gingrich, catering coordinator for The Bistro at Asbury Place in Maryville, Tenn.:   
 
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"What book is lying on your nightstand?"

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Wayne Kerr and Resurrection crowd 2-3-12
13,000 attend Resurrection, DR
over three January weekends


Highest-ever 563 indicate call to ministry
 
Holston's signature spiritual events for youth and young adults once again attracted thousands to the Great Smoky Mountains for encounters with God and Christian community. Reggie Dabbs and Matthew Paul Turner served as speakers. Wayne Kerr and Casey Darnell returned to lead worship and music.  
   
Photo: Wayne Kerr returns to Gatlinburg Convention Center.

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Bright Spots


bright spot 2-3-12

Blue Ribbon Team promotes
Vital Congregations by lifting up
'Bright Spots'

Bishop James Swanson has appointed a Blue Ribbon Team to help build Vital Congregations. With the aid of the book, Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard, here are this week's Bright Spots:    
 
* Resurrection promotes equpped, empowered, and inspired clergy leadership as well as strong youth ministry.                
                 
* Burks UMC, Chattanooga District, is engaged in mission, doing outreach in the community and world. Christ UMC and Asbury UMC in Greeneville, Morristown District, and Trenton UMC, Chattanooga District, are doing the same! 
Women at work



My Sister's House sign 2-3-12
Chattanooga church opens new ministry at St. Andrews Center    

 

When the Rev. Rhonda Hobbs was associate pastor at Burks United Methodist Church, she saw the need for a ministry that would serve women who are new to or re-entering the workforce.


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Commentary


Visiting the poor illustration 2-3-11
United Methodists fail to 
visit the poor, Carder says


"We can no more delegate relationships with the poor to others than we can attain spiritual maturity by designating another to read the Bible for us." -- Bishop Ken Carder


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