Conversations with Leaders: Ross Paterson I have been fortunate to serve on the pastoral staff for the past twenty-one years at, CrossPoint Community Church, Modesto, CA which has recently gone through a major transition. For 36 years one man was responsible for a passionate execution of Pastoral Care for our congregation. Three years before his [...]
Growing old is not for sissies An eighty-four year-old woman watched her children put price tags on her belongings. Her eyes filled with tears as she silently reminisced about the things piled high on makeshift tables in her garage. There was the pink vase that she’d bought with green stamps as a young mother. An [...]
While lying in a hospital bed at St. Jude last August, I was given the privilege of time to re-evaluate my life and life’s work. I discovered that when one’s body is broken, many values change. That which was so important no longer is. And that, which meant so little, strangely means so much. In the middle of the night I spent some precious moments reviewing my outlook on life—and death.
The Quality of Engagement By John Coulombe Provided by CN Building Adult Ministries Resource Center It all has to do with change. Winter blows in and snaps the buds, flowers and blooms into a new cycle of growth, renewal and life. As with the seasons of nature, so it is with the nature of man. [...]