by ray | Jan 3, 2011 | Other Ministries
“The pastors of high-growth churches spent most of their time in prayer, study, and teaching.” Recently, Lifeway Research asked 200 pastors to provide an hour-by-hour calendar of what they do each week. The study included 101 pastors whose churches were in...
by ray | Jan 3, 2011 | Other Ministries
As you may have already heard in the sermon from March 27–28, the elders graciously approved on March 22 a leave of absence that will take me away from Bethlehem from May 1 through December 31, 2010. We thought it might be helpful to put an explanation in a letter to...
by ray | Jan 3, 2011 | Other Ministries
I wrote this report for Bethlehem and have adapted it for this first day of 2011 on the DG Blog. It’s longer than a blog should be. My only excuse is that I did cut 263 pages. For eight months of this year (May–December), I was on a leave of absence. That meant I was...
by ray | Dec 20, 2010 | Other Ministries
Update #5 from Francis Chan Beyond Expectations It has been an amazing couple of months as you probably saw from Lisa’s updates. I don’t even know where to start. Once again, God far exceeded my expectations. He has a way of doing that… Now to Him who is able to do...
by ray | Dec 6, 2010 | Other Ministries
Update #4 from Lisa Chan Obviously…I am not meant to blog. I allow far too much time to pass, and too many things happen in the space of that time! I cannot believe December is here and we have been gone for six weeks now. Our time with the children at Life...
