April 22, 2021
Our “pulpit was empty.” In the jargon of our church that meant that our professional orator in residence had left us for greener pastures and we were on the prowl for another. Then we got this letter from some preacher fellow that wanted to come for two weeks and live with us and preach to us on three Sundays.
August 5, 2007
By John A. Meisenbach Could two churches in south Tampa, Florida, possibly become one? That”s the question we first considered in September 2002. I was serving as minister of Palma Ceia Christian Church (established 1947), when I called David Ingram, chairman of the elders of Westshore Christian Church (established 1958), and asked about the feasibility of merging the two churches. At that time, Westshore was between ministers, and I sensed God”s call for unity. After much prayer and discussion, the merger attempt was aborted in January 2003. Palma Ceia went ahead with a self-evaluation process and made plans to move
March 11, 2007
By Tim Harlow I don”t think I fully understood shepherding until I took my family to visit a little Dutch theme park in Holland, Michigan. It was a petting zoo\cheese-making\candle-dipping experience. On this particular day, one of the sheep in the petting zoo had executed a clever escape and was wandering through the outlet mall next door. Up to this point, he had done no harm (although he was glaring at the sweater store). His escape had been through a little pond at one end of the zoo. He must have been desperate, because, as the nice Dutch lady told
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