Sometimes in ministry you need to take a break and spend a little time with family. With summer approaching the BSN team will be taking a mini break from our blog during the months of June, July and August to spend time with family and friends. You can still connect with us on our facebook page. We had hoped to do some travel this summer to promote BSN, but we are still available for local gatherings if you are interested. You can contact us at blendedsoulsnetwork@gmail.com , or via twitter . Pastor and ministry wives are encouraged to join our private facebook community page. Of course if any of you attend or hold an event with other churches and would like us to promote or write about it please let me know. We should be back up and running in the fall. Enjoy the summer!
A network of Pastors and Ministry Couples. Blended Souls is a gathering of "sista's" and "brotha's", from various Christian denominations, ages, economic and ethnic backgrounds. Our goal is to purposefully make an impact for change in the world by promoting unity, opportunities for ministry couples to network, and exchange ideas so that our churches can partner together within our communities. We strive to reach out to women and men from every tongue, tribe and nation!
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Let's Get Together!!!!!
This weekend my family and I attended an annual community picnic in my hometown of Gloucester, VA hosted by several churches in the Ware Neck area of Gloucester County.
This includes my family's church, Union Zion Baptist Church, Buelah Baptist Church, and Singleton United Methodist Church.
The pastors of these churches all belong to the Gloucester Ministerial Association, which is non denominal organization comprised of various church leaders in the community.
This includes my family's church, Union Zion Baptist Church, Buelah Baptist Church, and Singleton United Methodist Church.
The pastors of these churches all belong to the Gloucester Ministerial Association, which is non denominal organization comprised of various church leaders in the community.
In the four years that the three churches have met for fellowship they have held the annual picnic, conducted a unity service, and this weekend even sponsored a 5k Walk to raise money for the Gloucester/Mathews Free Clinic.
Pastor Cohick from Beulah Baptist and Pastor Dickerson from Union Zion have even switched pulpits on Sunday morning to demonstrate their committment to unity within their community and the church!
Although the turn out this year was smaller than usual (probably do to the fact that it was Mother's Day weekend) I'm very proud of my hometown, especially my home church for being so open to partnering with other churches in their community.
The theme for this years walk was "Connecting Our Community Together Thru Faith and Fellowship". I don't know about you but I get goose bumps when I see God's people not just living, & working with one another...but showing genuine "L-O-V-E for one another. How can we as a community of believers get together; not so that we can shine, but so that the LOVE of Christ that is in us can S-H-I-N-E ?
2 Chronicles 7:14
14if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face,
and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal
their land.
and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal
their land.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
You're Not Welcome
Pastor Tubs wife Melissa and I connected via twitter and eventually through Facebook. Melissa is a big part of our BSN community and after several conversations we realized our husbands had a few things in common, including the fact that they are both bi-vocational. I can tell you from my own experience that you have to be a very special man to not only hold down a full time day job but act as a full time pastor as well(are there really any part time pastors?). After hearing about Pastor Tubs (did I mention I love saying that name...lol?) bible study with other men from varying denominations and backgrounds I knew he would be a great contributor to BSN.
At Acts2 Church we meet on Sunday
mornings and you are not invited. Yes, I am the pastor. Yes, I have said this
to people.
Anyone who stopped reading at those
three sentences is now switching over to their Twitter pages to write about a
pastor who doesn't want people at his church. I am sure the tweets would range anywhere from
"doesn't love his people and stay away" to "clearly this guy
doesn't understand the Gospel" (sorry not good at twitter abbreviation).
However, like many things in life that people don't want to wait to find out
about before speaking, there is an explanation.
On Saturday mornings we meet at the
church for men's Bible study. We do a verse by verse study of Scripture and
often discuss how the particular verses help us be better husbands, boyfriends,
fathers, and most importantly Christians. (Yes, most importantly Christians, if
everything in my life is taken away today I still have God.) Although the group
is not always large there is something still very special about it.
This group of varying size is usually
always made up of men from different churches. Even in a small group it is not
uncommon to have anywhere from three to five different churches represented.
What makes this even more uncommon is that the churches range from Independent
Baptist to Pentecostal to non-denominational. (And as we study the Book of Acts
you can imagine some of the conversations.) Furthermore, this group has been
known to have various ethnic backgrounds represented.
Pastor Tub Rorabaugh is a devoted Christian, husband and father. He is the senior pastor of Acts2 Church in Jacksonville, FL. Acts2 is a church plant based on the concept of making better Christians through disciplining and community (Acts 2:42-44). Tub has been involved in Christian education at Temple Christian Academy for five years.
He is a graduate of Liberty University with a Bachelor of Science in Religion. His desire to remain in God’s will leads and directs his daily walk. Tub is married to Melissa and they have two teen aged sons, Danny and Hunter.
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