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My mother sent me an encouraging email forward today. It is a copy of the October 18 message from D. Max Whitfield, Biship of the Northwest Texas and New Mexico Annual Conferences of the United Methodist Church. As some of you know, I grew up in the Methodist church and still have a soft place in my heart for those Methodists. Anyway, Biship Whitfield’s message is all about how in the year 1910, the Northwest Texas Conference had 8,900 people accept Jesus Christ for the first time, resulting in a 25% increase in overall church attendence. The second point of the article is that only 189 out of 415 churches actually met in their own buildings at the time — the rest met in people’s houses! Read it for yourself – I’ve included the complete text of the article below.
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It’s been a little over three months since my wife and I stepped down from our ministries at Mesilla Park Community Church to help plant the new church in Las Cruces. I’ve included the text from a newsletter article I submitted for Mesilla Park’s new monthly newsletter to get everybody up to speed on what’s been going on in that time!
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