September 2005

Raleigh Church Forms Relief, Relocation Teams

Hope Community Church, Raleigh, North Carolina (Mike Lee, pastor), is working on several different areas of help for the Hurricane Relief. According to a church spokesman, they have separated the volunteers into Work Relief Teams and Relocation Teams. The Work Relief Teams are being formed to go down to the Gulf area with Samaritan’s Purse

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Your Church: An Outsider’s Perspective

Do you ever wonder what your church looks like to an outsider? Some churches we know, in order to get a good visitor’s perspective, have recruited outsiders (non-believers, non-church-goers) to attend a service and then write a review, which can be quite instructive to church staff and leadership. Recently we came across a church-review website

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Indiana GBC ‘Adopts’ Gulfport Congregation

In what is, to our knowledge, a “first,” a Grace Brethren church is adopting a hurricane-ravaged church in the south for long-term help, assistance, and encouragement. Bruce Barlow, associate pastor of Winona Lake (IN) Grace Brethren church, announced to the WLGBC congregation in a memo yesterday that the church is partnering with First Baptist Church

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Google Introduces Blog Search Engine

According to an Associated Press report this morning, Google has just introduced a specialty search engine which sifts through millions of frequently-updated personal journals called “blogs,” (such as this one), a long-anticipated development which is expected to help propel blogging even further into the cultural mainstream. The new tool, unveiled Wednesday at http://blogsearch.google.com, focuses exclusively

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