Moving people to deeper participation in worship is a goal of discipleship. Meaningful participation escapes many. After all only so many people can preach, sing, take up the offering, or read scripture. But that is not the whole of meaningful participation in worship.
One church has utilized Twitter to involve the congregation in worship. [...]
Archive for the ‘Religion’ Category
Using Twitter & Interactive Worship
Posted in Discipleship, Local Church, Religion, worship, tagged Discipleship, Twitter, worship on October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Religion Survey
Posted in Religion, Religion in America, tagged Baylor IRS, Jake Beaty, Religion in America on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jake Beaty posted thoughts on the Baylor survey What Americans Really Believe from the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion. I found it interesting, but will not try to comment on something he has already done such a good job on. Check out the links.
Purpose
Posted in Discipleship, Local Church, Religion, tagged Discipleship, Local Church, purpose, Tim Randolph on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It has been a while. I have tried to not be neglectful, I have just been busy with other internet related endeavors. Our webhost for the church converted to php5 at the end of April. For most that means nothing. For us it meant that our phpWebsite based church website stopped functioning. phpWebsite is a [...]
Meeting People Where They Are
Posted in Discipleship, Local Church, Religion, Religion in America, World Views, tagged ministry, students, technology, young adults on March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A YouTube video by Professor Michael Wesch and the 200 Kansas State University students in his ANTH 200: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology class in the Spring of 2007 has been burning up YouTube and the blogosphere. A Vision of Students Today highlights the issues of how contemporary students learn, what their needs are for learning [...]
Operation C.R.I.S.I.S.
Posted in Discipleship, Home Groups, Missions, Religion, Religion in America, WRBN, tagged compassion project, Discipleship, home group on February 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
712 Franklin Ave
This morning was Food Pick Up for Operation C.R.I.S.I.S. We were expecting about 3,000-4,000 pounds, but only 500 showed up. Twice a month we pick up food from the Capital Area Food Bank in the parking lot of the Church of the Open Door. We then take it to OC on Franklin [...]
The Ruth Project: Waco Immigrant Services Center
Posted in Discipleship, Home Groups, Local Church, Missions, Religion, Religion in America, WRBN, tagged compassion, Discipleship, home group, immigrant on February 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This morning I met with Carmen Branscum. Carmen is a Social Work Intern at the Ruth Project here in Waco. The Ruth Project is joint venture of both the Waco Regional Baptist Network and the Isaac Project of Buckner International. She came to talk with me about what they do and how we can [...]
Visitation/Outreach
Posted in Discipleship, Local Church, Religion, Religion in America, tagged outreach, recomendation, transition team on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Like with the Sunday before those interested in visitation and outreach at Park Lake came together to form a team this past Sunday. It was a good size group. They came with many good ideas. We left the meeting with a leader for the group and a place to jump off. As the team [...]
Prayer Ministry Start
Posted in Discipleship, Local Church, Religion, tagged prayer ministry, transition team recommendations on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This past Sunday I met with all those interested in participating in working on the recommendation from our Transition Team concerning a prayer ministry here at Park Lake. It was a good meeting and i think we have made a good start. We reviewed the why we were there and emphasized the need for someone [...]
The WRBN Senior Adult Council
Posted in Religion, Religion in America, WRBN on February 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I attended the WRBN Senior Adult Council meeting at Grace Temple Baptist Church. It was not my first time at a council meeting, but the last time I went was for the Thanksgiving Luncheon so this was my first regular meeting. I must admit that I do not know that much about the council and what [...]
