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| Broadway Baptist Church in Ft. Worth, Texas, is one of the newest Alliance congregational partners. Learn about them and other new church partners below in Alliance News. |
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Alliance welcomes new church partners
The gifts and resources of the Alliance are expanding with the addition of six new congregational partners in recent months. And, the list keeps growing every day!
Joining the more than 140 churches already affiliated with the Alliance are:
The Alliance is stronger and more diverse as a result of these new family members, and we encourage you to learn more about each one. You also can l
earn about becoming an Alliance congregational partner on our
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Practicing Congregation
by Tim Moore
Churches change about
every seven years.
That's what a long-term pastor told me 30 years ago while I was in seminary. Rick was a visiting fellow on campus as part of his third sabbatical. For 21 years he had served his congregation and was using the sabbatical to prepare for another seven years.
As we talked in a common room in the dorm, he
explained how he had pastored three different churches in the past two decades and was getting ready to pastor his fourth church - all from the same address. The conversations we had over the handful of weeks he was on campus were truly a part of my seminary education. My ministry serving as a long-term pastor mirrored Rick's experience. I served at least three churches in the nearly 20 years I served Sardis Baptist Church.
People die, move, have babies. The babies grow into children, then into teenagers. Others join the church by conviction, or to get away from an unhealthy congregation, or to raise their kids in church.
Keep reading...
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Iraq pilgrimage reflects interfaith commitment
He and his colleagues stay on the front lines of justice, advocacy and interfaith work in the Republic of Georgia and throughout the region, and recently he
participated in the Arbaeen Pilgrimage from Najaf to Karbala, Iraq.
The event, the world's largest annual pilgrimage, marks the end of the 40-day mourning
period following Ashura.
It is undertaken primarily by Shia Muslims, but Christians and others also take part.
Pursue these videos to learn more, and to see the bishop's involvement.
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