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Grace UMC is located in South Central Pennsylvania about 60 miles north of Baltimore,Md. The community of Hanover is growing about 7-8% annually.  Overall population of the community within 10 miles of Grace Church

The Internet has given Christian churches and ministries a brand new opportunity to communicate the gospel in a new, worldwide society.  Distance in time and physical space is not a major obstacle anymore.

I was privileged to visit Northpoint's new Browns Bridge Campus a few months back. This is an amazing story--brand new 3,000 seat auditorium filled twice on Sunday morning. How do they do that?

Clif Christopher, Horizons. In this next seminar I will be discussing the impending crisis in financial stewardship that I believe has come and is still to get worse. At the same time, we

It is becoming increasingly clear that if outreaches to our cities are not both caring for the people as well as aware of the environmental footprint we leave behind we are not going

This idea is borrowed from an old, now unidentified source. It still works well as a learning center. Create a "stick of dynamite for each myth (a toilet paper tube or rolled up piece