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Outside the Box,
Outside the Box with David Christy: Celebrate the Change (Worship in Gym this Sunday!)
Dear Fellow Ministers, This week the “change” from the Sanctuary to The Commons (8:15 am) and Gym (9:30 am, 11 am, and 12:30 pm [CCH]) begins! See a few pictures and watch my short video clip for this week. Isn’t change fun?! Actually, it brings great opportunities to really focus on what is important. Pam and I are discovering that...
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Outside the Box with David Christy: Beyond Busy
Dear Fellow Ministers, I once heard a pastor say, “If you know everything going on at your church, your church isn’t doing enough.” By that measure, Matthews UMC is doing WAY more than enough! There are more things going on than “you can shake a stick at.” This week we have over 100 children, youth, and adults here for Music...
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Outside the Box with David Christy: Humility, Hunger & People Smarts
Dear Fellow Ministers, In his book The Ideal Team Player, Patrick Lencioni writes: For organizations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I’m convinced that “the right people” are the ones who have (these) three virtues in common – humility, hunger, and people smarts. I refer to these as virtues because the word “virtue” is a synonym for the...
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Outside the Box with David Christy – True North
Dear Fellow Ministers, As you are aware, we are in a sermon series on finding Hope in Chaos. We will talk this Sunday about two differing definitions of “chaos” – one being a bunch of “stuff” happening and the other being formless void (i.e., NOT a lot of “stuff”). Isn’t that interesting? I get distracted both by too much and...
Outside the Box,
Outside The Box with David Christy
Dear Fellow Ministers, What a gift Matthews United Methodist is to God, our community, and each other. I am grateful for the excellent offering of gifts people share in worship. Wow! You will want to listen to the music (if you haven’t already) at each of our services on Sunday. The authenticity with which this church worships is a gift....
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Outside the Box with Pastor David Christy – The Main Thing
Dear Fellow Ministers, Pam and I are so excited to get to be at Matthews UMC! We have been watching your worship services for months online, and we look forward to getting to be in person with you this week! We will begin a series on “Hope In Chaos” using much of the book of Colossians as our scriptural guide....
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Community,
Growth,
Outside the Box,
Outside The Box with Pastor David Christy
Dear Fellow Ministers, I am so grateful to get to be a part of your ministry here at Matthews UMC! Wow… what an amazing church you are. Pastor Susan and I have about unpacked our offices and are discovering what living outside the boxes is like at MUMC. We are finding out exactly why we have both heard so many...
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Gratitude,
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Just These Lines,
Leadership,
Encouraging You in this New Season
Just these lines… …to encourage and challenge you in this new season to embrace incoming Pastors David and Susan, who are super excited and a little nervous (they are human), with the same welcoming and radical-love-of-Christ spirit of which you welcomed me. May you seek to discover together where our Triune God, who comes to all of God’s children in...
Change,
Just These Lines,
Passing the Mantle
Just these lines… … to give thanks for the wonderful, welcoming, love encouraging Body of Christ at MUMC who have graciously embraced a quirky retired clergy woman still surprised and humbled by the unexpected new season of ministry I have shared with this congregation and your incredibly gifted and giving ministry staff team. This past Sunday, Father’s Day and Trinity...
