A Bishop With A Vision

            Bishop Larry M. Goodpaster presided over his first session of the Western North Carolina Annual Conference earlier this month.
           He brought strong leadership and a boost of enthusiasm for our mission to make disciples of Jesus Christ in Western North Carolina.
            The 2009 Conference was inspiring and sobering.
            We learned that in spite of [...]

In Search Of Connection

         Recently I saw the results from a survey taken by Christian pollster The Barna Group.
         In a survey of young people they found the most common elements that young people said they were seeking from a church were

“to worship or make a connection with God” (45 percent described this as very [...]