Bellaire United Methodist Church

The past four weeks a group of women have gathered around a table and have experienced true communion with one another and with the Holy Spirit.  The kickoff for Women’s Ministry in 2012 has been a lunchtime Bible Study that is focusing on discerning the voice of God.  This study has really been about learning Read the Rest…

Dear Family in Faith, How is counting your blessings going?  I have heard back from several people now who have all said what a difference it has made to be looking for and focusing on the blessings they have received each day instead of the worrisome or troublesome things of each day.  If you haven’t Read the Rest…

Dear Family in Faith, I wanted to tell you how proud I am of you all. The “Have a Heart For Others” auction was an outstanding success and it is because you pulled together and made it work. Fay named many of the people involved yesterday in service, but you ALL made it work. As Read the Rest…

Dear Family in Faith, This month we celebrate one of my favorite days (and, no, not just for the food)—Thanksgiving.  For my family, Thanksgiving is actually a month-long event that leads into Advent, another time of preparation and thanksgiving.  It begins November 5th, with the celebration of Joshua’s, our eldest son’s, birthday.  It sets the Read the Rest…

Dear Family in Faith, This past week I was in Kansas at Church of the Resurrection United Methodist Church for Leadership Institute 2011.  It was a great conference and the workshops were, for the most part, amazing.  In one class, the room had some 200 people in it and the stories being shared from churches Read the Rest…

Dear Family in Faith, I know there is a lot of uncertainty in life right now.  The stock market graph looks like a roller coaster, people are afraid of when the next shoe in the economy will drop.  Financial forecasters are not holding out promising news anytime soon.  Then, there are natural disasters all around us: Read the Rest…

Dear Family in Faith, While we continue to feel the effects of a historic drought, we have brothers and sisters in faith all across the east and now south who are dealing with the opposite problem, flooding. Many of us have experience with or vividly remember this phenomenon in 2001 with tropical storm Allison. Even Read the Rest…

Dear Family in Faith, The Duke of Cambridge said in the late 1800’s, “Any change, at any time, for any reason, is to be deplored.” Change is one of those things that none of us are really comfortable with. Many people, if they had their choice, would choose to keep everything the same. It’s comfortable. Read the Rest…

This past Sunday, after what I felt was a great worship experience, I got the question, “What is the church?” That is an interesting question, because while most do describe it as a what, I think of the church as a who. When I was a kid, we would place our hands together and interlace Read the Rest…