World Convention eNews Oct 2014 – Connecting Everywhere…Every Day
Connecting Everywhere… Every Day
ChristiaNet
October, 2014 Issue 134
Established in 1930 to promote global fellowship among churches with their origins in the Stone-Campbell movement, World Convention cooperates with Christians everywhere toward the unity of the church.
EVANGELISM AND UNITY
Gary Holloway
Note these words from Jesse Bader, the founder of World Convention:
Evangelism is not the only business of the church but it is the church’s first business and what Jesus made primary his church dare not make secondary. Evangelism is not an elective. It is a divine imperative. The church must evangelize or perish. There is no alternative. To evangelize is the greatest work in the world.
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The Women’s Desk
Julia Keith
I’m numb from media onslaught with fear mongering stories. I wonder if I’m listening to voices inspired by God or those of the enemy. And I wonder about the outcome of manipulation. There are days when I have to walk away – thanking our merciful God who offers me a choice.
Josephine Gilstrap Blakemore, age 99, of Hyde Park and Hinsdale, died peacefully May 10, 2014. Josephine was the beloved wife of the late W. Barnett Blakemore, Dean of the Disciples Divinity House of the University of Chicago and President of World Convention from 1974-1975.
Marcia Kay Thomson, age 76, of Mount Vernon, Illinois and Masvingo, Zimbabwe, Africa passed away Sunday, September 21, 2014. She graduated from Mount Vernon Township High School in 1957 and Ozark Christian College in 1963. After graduating college, she went to work at Mashoko Christian Mission in Mashoko, Zimbabwe, Africa. During her fifty years in Zimbabwe she held many different positions, including administrative assistant at Mashoko Mission; college Bible school teacher; and business manager for CAMELS Printing Shop in Masvingo. Marcia was also a long-time advisor and board member for Zimbabwe Christian College in Harare. She was instrumental in building churches in Rushungarumwe and Rufaro, Zimbabwe.
Daily Disciple
-Gary Holloway
“O the quiet holy joy of the silent hour, when the soul is alone with God! Have you learned to love it, dear reader? If not, you have yet to attain to one of the purest and sweetest pleasures possible to the Christian in this life” (J.H. Garrison, Alone with God, 21).
If this quotation has appeal to you, you are not alone. Many of us long to spend time alone with a God. But an hour? In our busy lives? Perhaps, like me, you have desired and intended for years to have a regular quiet time with God, but did not know how to begin. If so, then this volume provides a starting point, a daily five-minute devotional that can begin your time with God.
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