Pacesetters Bible School Newsletter

Title: Defending the Faith without Dividing the Body.
Yucaipa School of the Bible
Yucaipa First Baptist Church
Yucaipa, CA.
Sunday Night Oct 1 @ 6:00 PM

Title: Defending Christianity in a Secular World
Yucaipa School of the Bible
Yucaipa First Baptist Church
Yucaipa, CA.  
Monday Nights 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Oct 2 – Nov 13, 2006

In a Chicago United Methodist Church, Elvira Arellano is claiming sanctuary in order to avoid deportation. Sanctuary is not a legal reality in the United States. The U. S. Supreme Court has already upheld convictions of pastors who offer it.
What is the moral issue involved here, and how should a church proceed under [...]

Many churches have trouble getting the majority of their membership active in church. The rule of thumb is that 20% of the people do about 80% of the work. The result is that some members are overworked, and that many church programs are understaffed.
One problem that I see is that the 20% are [...]

Does your church use its facilities during the week? Have you considered the opportunities you might have for ministry?
Many church facilities are unused except on Sunday and a small number of church events. Share any opportunities you have seen and any ideas for better using church facilities for ministry in your community.

A friend e-mailed me an article by Brian Vaszily, titled Whether You’re Left or Right, It’s Time to Fight the Bullies. This is some good advice. What would Jesus do? He would speak up in defense of others.
On a related topic, how Christians treat their neighbors from a different faith, there is [...]

I didn’t get any response to my last post about how to keep young adults in the church, so how about this?
Would you go this far, or farther, to bring church to the people?
Check out Villagers get a prayer with pint, from the BBC News.

Beth Quick has a post on young adults seeking ordination in the United Methodist Church, but I think it brings up a couple of good questions about young adults in general. First, do we minimize them by calling them “young” adults? Second, how can the church keep them with us as they move [...]

As reported in the Pensacola News-Journal, the Back-to-School clinic at Gonzalez UMC on July 30, 2006 was a big success.
See the story here.