St. Paul's UMC: Engaging Our Community for the 21st Century.

I am so glad to let you know that Dr. Jim Bankston will be speaking to Ordinary Life this week. Jim has provided excellent leadership for St. Paul's during the seventeen years he has been Senior Minister here.

I have wanted Jim to speak to our gathering for some time but his schedule is always so full. 

This will be an excellent time to engage Dr. Bankston on a more personal level and to get his take on what is going on in the religious scene. You have heard me say that St. Paul's is a bubble. It is a good bubble but it is not reflective of what is going on with the rest of much of organized religion.

I hope, if you are in the Houston area you are able to attend and take advantage of this opportunity.

Much love,

Bill Kerley

 

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Journey of Hope

Dear Folks -

Sunday, Ordinary Life hosts Journey of Hope ... from Violence to
healing. This is an organization led by murder victim family members
joined by death row family members, family members of the executed, the
exonerated, and others with stories to tell. This organization conducts
public education speaking tours and addresses alternatives to the death
penalty. For more information consult their website
www.journeyofhope.org.

Be Well,

Susanna

(as usual for guest speakers, there is no text available)

 

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Tom Peery ~ So, Dad, what makes a man? Or, a woman, for that matter...

Dear Folks,

It was a pleasure to hear from Tom Peery this past Sunday.  Below is his preview.

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Tom Peery struggled through being a skinny boy in a football-crazed Texas high school, endured an all-men's engineering college, the U.S.Army's Basic Combat Training in killing during the Viet Nam War, then a 25-year competitive ladder-climbing career, workaholic-style, in a multi-national chemical corporation, led by men who preached "cool heads prevail." During his ten-year mid-life crisis that followed, anger, fears, grief, and shame emerged, and, he began to nourish his spiritual life and other relationships. Now 66 years old, he's still learning about life.


Tom is a husband of 36 years, father of two adult children, a staff
spiritual director at the Cenacle Retreat House, and coordinator of the
Southeast Texas Association of Spiritual Directors. In April, 2009, he
was local coordinator of Spiritual Directors International's North
American conference in Houston. He is writing a book in response to his
son's question to him, on the night before his son turned twenty-one:
"So, Dad, what makes a man?"

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Enjoy!

Be Well,

Susanna

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