Dear Church: About 30 members participated in a discernment activity Sunday. We used four scenarios for the future development of the church property (no change, minimal change, moderate change and maximum change) to clarify the church’s vision as it relates to the neighborhood — to answer a central question that...
Dear Church: University Baptist Church was founded as a mission of First Baptist Church to the University of Texas in 1908. On the occasion of the church’s 75th anniversary in 1983, the congregation expressed its gratitude “to those great-hearted people who conceived the dream of the University Baptist Church with...
Dear Church: Earlier this year we inserted into the church’s announcements a prayer request: “Please pray for our Discernment Committee, the staff and the congregation as we step further into the wonder and fear of what the Spirit is doing at the corner of 22nd and Guadalupe.” The prayer request...
Dear Church: This Sunday following worship the congregation will continue its discussion about extending the interim process. I realize now that this is how we should have framed the discussion — “extending the interim process” rather than “extending the interim pastor’s contract.” I am a resource for the process, but...
Paul, Lisa, Jody, Richard, and Anna, to the church at 22nd and Guadalupe. Grace to you and peace from God the Creator and the Lord Jesus Christ. We never cease to remember you in prayer, thanking God for you because of your witness to the resurrection in Christ Jesus as...
