So, here’s the document which mgpc endorsed/adopted/supported last Sunday. MGPC Ministry & Mission 2012 Hopefully it speaks for itself. I’ve never really been a part of a church that tries to clearly state its broad ministry aims for the next year before. Getting used to the process has been a real transition. I added a …

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Tomorrow I’ll post the Ministry And Mission 2012 document and draft budget that Mount Gambier Presbyterian Church adopted last Sunday. One of the perennial questions we get each year is why our budget is always in deficit. It’s because we plan it that way. We do hold some invested funds, and that’s because folk either …

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J.D. Greear provides thirty-six ‘plumblines’, values he’s picked up over ten years of pastoring which he wishes he’d had from the beginning. Including the now ubiquitous nod to ‘the city’ there’s a lot of well phrased wisdom here. Yes, I know there are only thirty-five. Weird, huh? (I think 35 was meant to be 35 …

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What does For The City promise? Darrin Patrick and Matt Carter have planted churches in the heart of two US cities. In 180 pages they seek to ‘shed light on what a healthy church looks like, [and] share from our experiences as church planters how to pursue the goal of healthy, God-honoring churches in cities …

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