Saturday, November 7, 2009
A Day of Celebration at The Ministry Center
Today The Ministry Center Advisory Council, led by our Chairperson, Janelle Wade, celebrated the lives that have been touched and transformed during the first four months of operation! What a great team God has assembled at Trinity UMC! How grateful to God we are for this West Campus! Our people truly have a vision to effect lives in practical and measurable ways! The GED (General Educational Development) classes, the School of Music, and the Health and Wholeness components of the Ministry Center are off to a great start. ESOL (English Speakers of Other Languages) is set to begin in January of 2010. I can't wait to see what God will do next! It was our special treat to have Rev. Ed Dinkins, former pastor of Trinity, and his dear wife, Patsy, as our guest. In addition, our District Superintendent, The Reverend Doctor Sharon Austin, encouraged and challenged us to continue to move forward with great expectations of God's grace! My heart is full!
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Great to hear that God is at work in such significant ways!
A note of gratitude and appreciation. I looked you up and found this site. I don’t see recent updates so I hope this gets read as I never had the chance to say it and feel led by Holy Spirit after all these years. My utmost gratitude to you for recognizing (and not running off) a lost soul years ago and welcomed into your family for a period of time. Through patience, exposure and persistence you preached the words that led me to Christ (Thank you!), instilled Godly values and watched the Lord move in a wrecked young life. But that was only the beginning. As a never ending student of Christ that was just the genesis of what God had planned for my life and those around me. Praise Jesus. So many friends, family and church members have received Christ as a result of the Lord using me as a tool. The domino effect has just been awesome. You unknowingly have had an indirect impact on so MANY lives across the nation. My appreciation is for the life you have lived and still do. No one truly understands the “fish bowl” you and your family live in for Him with limited resources, little thanksgiving including passing comment on “how good the praise music was” by existing visitors at service. Thank you for your servant hood to the Lord. Thank you on behalf of those who don’t truly know the pain and exhaustion you bear in your calling. I pray you are still going strong, passionate and at peace!
well....I finally found you! My name is Berita Mooneyhan and my husband, Claude Mooneyhan. You touched our lives deeply! In fact you are the minister who married us 32 years ago. How time passes by so quickly. Claude is in the ministry with Global Teen Challenge. He is a missionary there. He has worked with Teen Challenge for 18 years. Glory be to God. I became a nurse. Got injured, back, by tripping over a bed alarm chord that the nursing assistant left hanging when she put the patient to bed. That was a year and a half ago. I just got a spinal fusion a month ago, and am still dealing with a lot of pain. Would surely appreciate your prayers on that. Oh, how i want to be HEALED! Just wanted you and your blessed family to know what an impact ya'll have made in our life. We have two daughters. Hannah and her husband, Shannon, just moved to Atlanta. They have two children, Micah, age 7 and Anabel, age 4. Our other daughter, Paula, our youngest....age 28 is married to Jonathon,and lives in the UK. She is an opera singer and travels all over Europe and is being awarded a gold medal by Prince Charles and will be singing for him. She does not have any children yet. We are both on Facebook if you would like to keep in touch. We love you and your family very much! Berita Mooneyhan
To Anonymous and to Berita,
Thank you for your kind remarks. I am truly humbled by them. As we serve our Lord, we don't always keep before us the fact that days, months, years, decades, and yep, almost a half a century of ministry dashes by so suddenly. I've been reminded more often, lately, that we are like the grass...and the flower...and the vapor....and the span of a man's hand. We are here only briefly, momentarily, when compared to eternity. So, we work, we labor, we give, we serve, we plant, we water....we live...all in the name of our Lord. We call it "ministry." And, it is. We forget ourselves (or, at least, we should), and we spend and are spent for Him. Then, someone writes, shows up, calls, contacts you with a message of encouragement, such as yours. We look back, and we don't always remember (although, in your case, Berita (and Claude), we do...thank God. And, we marvel at what God did and how He sustained you, developing you by His grace and working in you to plant His kingdom in others. It is worth it all...and just to think, God used a vessel, weak, failing, flawed, but ransomed and restored, journeying on to complete the race we began with little knowledge of what it all would mean in eternity! Thanks for sharing!
What a wonderful family you have! You will be in our prayers. May the Lord bring you His healing and restoration in every way!
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