Liberia-District Superintendent on the Amendments to UMC Constitution

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SouledOut: Praise Band @ First UMC Hillsville

We are blessed to have one of the best Praise Bands in the area and in the Church as far as I am concerned. SouledOut not only plays great music, they actually lead us in Worship of our Father, God. We have learned a lot this week in revival with Terry Teykl about being  in the Presence of God and not just being a hard working church. Both should go together.

On these videos the sound quality is good but as you know they are not studio recordings. Come hear them in person and you will be blessed.

I am including this blog for your sheer listening enjoyment and also that you might have a worshipful time as you listen.

Ronnie

Bring The Rain

My Savior,My God

Trading My Sorrows

Because of Your Love

I Am Free

I Will Go

Because Of Your Love

Holy, Holy, Holy

May 19, 2009 Posted by imagebearer | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Membership Amendment United Methodist Church

I started blogging about the 32 Amendments that will be voted on at Annual Conferences this year and in the beginning I said that I will let you see both sides of the argument and that is what I am doing  here. Let me say that I do not endorse the views of this video in any way shape of form. This video absolutely leaves no room for people to wonder if the membership amendment is about practicing homosexual people becoming members of the United Methodist Church. However, you have to read Scripture and make your own conclusions.

Ronnie 

Here is an opposing view.

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National Spokesperson for OPC Speaking @ 1st Hillsville UMC May 24th

Mary Damron to speak at Hillsville’s First United Methodist Church.

The National Spokesperson for Operation Christmas Child will be speaking during the evening service on May 24^th.

HILLSVILLE, VA, May 11, 2009— Operation Christmas Child National Spokesperson, Mary Damron, will be speaking at Hillsville’s First United Methodist Church on Sunday evening, May 24^th at 6:30 p.m.  The public is invited to hear Mary share her powerful story of love and dedication to the children served through Operation Christmas Child, a project of Samaritan’s Purse. 

Damron first heard about Operation Christmas Child in 1994 on a television show airing an invitation from Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan’s Purse, to participate in the project by packing shoe box gifts for needy children worldwide. Her heart already burdened from African refugees and Bosnian war victims, Damron took up Graham’s invitation and called for her neighbors to do the same.  Mary was driven to collect some 1,200 shoe box gifts that she hand-delivered on Thanksgiving Day in her twenty-ton truck from rural West Virginia to the Samaritan’s Purse headquarters in Boone, N.C.

Struck by her deep faith and undaunted spirit, Graham invited Damron to travel with him on a box distribution trip to Europe.  “Giving a shoe box doesn’t take the children off of the garbage dumps, out of the orphanages, or off of the streets, but it changes how they feel about themselves,” said Mary. “It tells them they are special! They have human value and a Creator who loves them. I watched a filthy, smelly, five-year-old girl with matted hair who was living on a garbage dump pretend to be a princess, blowing kisses after she put on the jewelry she found in her shoe box gift.”  Since that first trip, Damron has helped distribute boxes around the world.

Mary was born and raised in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia and has experienced poverty first-hand during her humble beginnings where she was left to care for seven siblings in her teen years. God has used her experiences to ignite her heart for needy children around the world. Mary’s mission with Operation Christmas Child has taken her from the devastated streets of Sarajevo to the filthy living conditions in a Kosovo refugee camp, to the stage of the Grand Ole Opry, and to the White House Oval Office.

Mary has been married for 36 years and continues to reside in the small town of Ike’s Fork, West Virginia, where she is the mother of three and grandmother of five. Known as mother, grandmother, Mama Gump, and Operation Christmas Child Spokesperson, Mary Damron travels nationwide sharing the excitement of bringing the Good News of God’s love to millions of hurting children living in some of the most desperate places around the world. 

For more information on the talk or to learn how to participate in Operation Christmas Child, call 540-382-4479 or visit www.samaritanspurse.org.

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