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Saint John's United Methodist Church provides a welcoming and loving community for worship, education, and outreach. The congregation has grown from under 90 worshippers in 2001 to just under 200 currently. It supports various programs for children, youth, women, and men. The church also hosts several community outreach ministries and provides space for other groups. While the church faces challenges around growth and facilities improvements, its vision is to build on its strengths as an active community focused on ministry and service.
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God’s special providence is toward His children.
We may suffer now, but joy can and will come
God can see what we cannot see
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It seems that current missionary work requires spending a lot of money, preparing a lot of materials, and traveling to far away places, so that it feels like missionary work. But what was the result they brought back? It's just a lot of photos of activities, fun eating, drinking and some playing games. And then we have to do the same thing next year, never ending. The church once mentioned that a certain missionary would go to the field where she used to work before the end of his life. It seemed that if she had not gone, no one would be willing to go. The reason why these missionary work is so difficult is that no one obeys God’s words, and the Bible is not the main content during missionary work, because in the eyes of those who do not obey God’s words, the Bible is just words and cannot be connected with life, so Reading out God's words is boring because it doesn't have any life experience, so it cannot be connected with human life. I will give a few examples in the hope that this situation can be changed. A375
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Chandra Dev: Unveiling the Mystery of the Moon God
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Dear readers,
This month we continue with more inspiring talks from the Global Spirituality Mahotsav that was held from March 14 to 17, 2024, at Kanha Shanti Vanam.
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Happy reading,
The editors
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