Brave church youth pastor11/25/2023 Our ministers will again go on retreat this spring to imagine and dream with one another about God’s movement within and through our church.Our Minister to Students, Dane Martin, will go on his own, well-earned sabbatical as he finds both rest for his soul and new insights into how to best share the Gospel with our youth.We will continue to care for those families and remind them of the love of God through embraces, cards, and casseroles. We will undoubtedly lose more of our beloved church members this year.We gained thirty new church members and baptized a number of people (including many youth!) this year and we welcome them into the life of our congregation!īut as I look back, I am also looking forward to what the Lord has in store for our congregation in 2023:.Revealed: The Book of Revelation (Eastertide).I was blessed to preach the following sermon series’ in 2022:.Together with four other North Carolina CBF churches, we are focused on the five traits of a thriving church: Compelling Clarity, Faithful Agility, Holy Tenacity, Rooted Relationships, and Dynamic Collaboration. Our Vision and Navigation Team entered into a process with CBF called the Thriving Congregations cohort. Out of that dreaming (and coupled with the results of a congregational survey) came our All Together Ardmore emphasis and our desire to see Community Groups form in peoples’ homes. Francis Springs Retreat Center, our ministers reimagined what spiritual formation could look like at Ardmore Baptist. You can read Lee’s reflections on her sabbatical here and here. She spent intentional time looking at the spiritual formation of children and how best to equip families to craft home cultures of discipleship.
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