Music Ministry Cont. However, I also love the deep scriptural meanings and prayerful intent of most praise & worship music. I believe that it is possible to love and use both hand-inhand to create meaningful worship. Also, I want you to know that Zeke, Carrie, Deborah, and I are taking great care to make sure that any praise music we sing in church will be prayerfully considered and tastefully done, whether it is simply as special music or as a praise song that we want everyone to know and learn. Yours in Christ, Shane Sanderson Arkansas Conference News The Methodist Foundation for Arkansas will host Arkansas author John Grisham as its February guest speaker for its ongoing speaker series, “In Conversation Together.” For more information contact: Haley Walker Klein 501-664-8632 hklein@methodistfoundationAR.org “In Conversation Together” gathers online on the third Thursday of each month from 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. CST. The Foundation hosts the calls from our facility in Little Rock. Visit: www.methodistfoundationar.org Wesley UMC Newsletter The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song will premiere on February 16 & 23 at 8 p.m. on PBS stations nationwide (check local listings). This moving four-hour, two-part series from executive producer, host and writer Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University and director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, traces the 400-year-old story of the Black church in America, all the way down to its bedrock role as the site of African American survival and grace, organizing and resilience, thriving and testifying, autonomy and freedom, solidarity and speaking truth to power. February 2021 Northwest District News Rev. Stephen Coburn, the current NW DS will be retiring this year. Bishop Mueller has appointed Rev. Dr. Blake Bradford, who currently serves as the Central DS to become the NW DS, starting July 1. Bradford said his focus as DS will be to continue building on the work that Coburn and the churches of the Northwest District have already put into motion, while also figuring out what the post-COVID church will look like going forward.
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