"Happy Kids" in the Beckley paper!

A project initiated by our Mission Team in 2010 was featured this week in The Register-Herald (Beckley). The story begins:

"The Happy Kids Project is a network of churches, clubs, non-profit organizations, individuals and civic groups working together to aid at-risk youth by providing school-related items for students whose families cannot afford them and assisting students in funding for after-school or enrichment activities.

'As is the case everywhere, there is a great need throughout Greenbrier County,' said organizer Jane Gillespie. 'Schools provide what children need to achieve academically. Happy Kids is a resource for non-academic needs.'"

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Morning Worship, 11/13/11

The moral of the parable of the talents is simplistically difficult: If you have good news to share, you better share it...or else.



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Morning Worship, 11/6/11

Pearl Buck, the great author from West Virginia, once said, “If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.”  On this All Saints Day, when we remember the saints who have come and gone, leaving behind their lessons to us in the pages of history and in our own memory, let us look back…so that we can look forward. 



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Morning Worship, 10/30/2011

Our culture conditions us to be first.  To be the best.  To be served.  To win.  Christ conditions us to be last.  To be our best.  To serve.  To surrender.  Do you see the difference?  He turns everything upside down.  He doesn’t want us to wear our faith in boxes on fringe; he wants us to live it in our actions by being not the first, but the last.  Not the winner, but the one who surrenders.



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One year ago, 33 men were trapped 2,300 feet underground in a Chilean copper mine. The hell they faced is incomprehensible to us. And yet, the hell that has haunted them since then is all too familiar to us.



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Morning Worship, 10/16/11

Leslie Clay is a Presbyterian Mission Co-Worker in Nicaragua along with her husband, Carl Agsten. Originally from Charleston, she's back in West Virginia for a few weeks to tell the story of her mission work. Here, she preaches on the parable of the rich man and Lazarus.


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Morning Worship, 9/25/11

This week concludes my sermon series on the book of Jonah. After finding his way out of the belly of the beast, Jonah relents to God's call and goes over 500 miles to Nineveh. Despite his worst prophetic efforts, the people listen to Jonah...and he is angered at God. Why? And what message does God give in response to Jonah?



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