Habitat: Come help Catherine build her house!

HABITAT HOUSE: WEEK 2

Last Saturday was the wall raising and blessing for the new Habitat house we're helping build with eight churches. A single mom, named Catherine Darwin, is buying the house and has done 450 hours of community service. We are not only partnering with churches but with Habitat and with Catherine.

Catherine has a great outlook on life and is a great joy to be around. Look for her at the build times.

Great story about this area, South Haven neighborhood. A few years ago, South Haven was full of crack houses. An 80-year-old woman got on her knees and started praying for this terrible environment to change. Slowly the city and individuals began to address the problem and tighten down on crime in the area. Many of the houses were repossessed and torn down. Now, the area is rebuilt with Habitat houses surrounding the elderly woman's house!

We will be joining together with Common House Church to build this Saturday, Sep 22, starting at 8 am.

Would you come help? Not only that, but why not mobilize people in your small group to come? Please email Charlene Towsley krtowsley@yahoo.com or Greg Taylor gtaylor@garnettchurch.org and let them know so we can know if we have enough. We need about 15 to work. You will be glad you came!

ADDRESS & DIRECTIONS
3707 W. 54th St. South (South Haven neighborhood)….take I-44 west of the Arkansas, take the 33rd W. Ave exit and go south. Just after going south under the interstate, turn right/west on the service road and go to S. 37th W. Ave and turn left/south. This will take you to W. 54th and the site is on the south side.

--Greg Taylor

A Bigger--and Smaller--View of Mission

Check out this fine article on God's Mission in the World from John Stackhouse.

Anyone who is sent on a mission had better be clear about what is being asked of her and why. If she is not clear about the nature and rationale of the mission, she risks trying to do too much, or not enough, or the wrong thing entirely. She also risks trying to do the wrong thing for the right reason or the right thing in the wrong way.

Let's begin, then, with two ways in which our view of mission should expand. First, Christians typically have believed that those who have not heard the name of Jesus are simply lost and destined for hell. Much of the energy of the great 19th-century missionary movement among Westerners, and much of the impetus of missions work around the world to this day, has come from the horror of a Niagara of souls pouring into a lost eternity for want of an evangelist.

We also need to acknowledge, however, a corresponding horror in the hearts of many—including many missions-minded Christians—about a God who allows whole nations and generations to plunge into a lost eternity simply because no one happened to reach them with the gospel. Does faithfulness to the Bible mean we must retain this picture?

I don't think so. . . Read More

Randy Moody

It is with great sadness that we grieve the passing of Randy Moody. Randy was the former Lead Minister at Garnett and many of us remember him with love and respect. He ministered to us in a spirit of love, humility and service. For all of us who knew and loved him, this world is a little less bright because he has gone home.

Updates about Memorial Services can be found at the Newnan Church of Christ website.