The Neighborhood Café is Back Inside!

As I write this article, I am aware that Lent is approximately half-way over. Being a season where one is challenged to face their mortality, I am also aware of many situations and circumstances that point out my humanness and frailty. Some of these situations are personal with me and my family and others are circumstances that I am
walking through with friends and church members.

As I write this article, I am aware that Lent is approximately half-way over. Being a season where one is challenged to face their mortality, I am also aware of many situations and circumstances that point out my humanness and frailty. Some of these situations are personal with me and my family and others are circumstances that I am
walking through with friends and church members.

The old saying, “Time flies when you are having fun” is definitely true. I have been back as Pastor at AMC for a month, and I am having a blast and time is flying by. The Season of Lent and the celebration of Easter is just around the corner. Lent has always been a meaningful time in the Christian Church. This was the time used by the early church to prepare new believers for membership in the church. Early believers went through a time of catechism and study of the basic principles of Christianity during Lent and celebrated Easter Sunday as their first day of Church membership. I can only imagine how special that first time of worship and communion was for the early Christians.

Let me say first that I am very excited to be returning to Archdale Methodist Church as pastor. During the past six months, I have spent much time praying and discerning the path God would have me to follow at this point in my ministry. Many things have happened in the time that I have been gone from you. Some have been wonderful and life giving, while others have been quite challenging.