Pastor's Blog: Becoming Your Best Self
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This past week the ministerial staff and I attended an Enneagram workshop, which addressed the variety of personality types that exist among us humans and how one’s individual type influences every aspect of his or her life. For those of you not familiar with the Enneagram, it is basically a model of how nine personality types (“ennea” is nine in Greek) relate to one another to represent human behavior in its most natural expressions, along with what our behavior looks like when we’re healthy or what it looks like when we’re distressed.
Pastor's Blog: Support for a Missions Partner
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One of the new realities in missions is the need for strong partnerships. This approach to the Great Commission has always been a hallmark of Baptists, but never more so than in recent years. And of course the logic is simple: We can do so much more together than we can do apart. Even for churches that have a strong missional heritage like ours this principle still holds true.