How do I spread the word?

Important events and ministry is always happening around Garnett. For example, this Saturday, Oct 27 is Angel Food distribution. It's also the second to last Saturday for building the Habitat House with Cat Darwin and her daughter over in West Tulsa. Warren Barfield is coming to Garnett Monday, October 29.

If you are involved in these events and want to get the word out, how do you do it?
Here are some steps:

1. You must own the responsibility -- that's the first step. Do what it takes to get the word out by word of mouth, phone calls, flyers, emails.

2. Send an email to Garnettinfo@gmail.com
with the exact wording of your announcement and when you'd like for it to go out.

3. For a possible spoken announcement about an event, email Greg Taylor, gtaylor@garnettchurch.org and make your request and deadline for a Sunday announcement is Thursday 4 pm.

4. If you want to put something on the Garnettchurch.org web site, you can also email Garnettinfo@gmail.com and make a note that you'd like for it to go on web site.

What we're reading

The leadership team (shepherds and staff) are reading The Leader's Journey right now. If you'd like to read along and talk to us about it, you can order through Amazon.

Habitat Saturday, October 13

Saturday morning, October 13, 8 am is our next Habitat build time.

We're building the house with a woman named Catherine Darwin, who is buying the house and has done 450 hours of community service. We are not only partnering with about eight other churches but also 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.

Can you come? If so, please email Charlene Towsley krtowsley@yahoo.com and let her know so we can know if we have enough. We need about 10 to work.

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

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.

Shepherd Selection Document

Here is the Shepherd Selection Process document (pdf) that was mentioned in the assembly on August 5th.

Please be in prayer for Loy Johnson and Jeff McIlroy and their families as they finish up their Shepherd training.