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What does a typical Sunday Morning Look Like?

What does a typical Sunday Morning look like for GFBC?9:30 AM - Family integrated Sunday School   We run one Sunday School class for the entire church.  During that class we will cover a topic for book for many weeks.  It is at this time that we also run our ...

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How do you have Sunday School without age graded ministries?

How do you have sunday school without age-graded ministries?Our Sunday School time is family-integrated.  We have one Sunday School class that runs prior to our morning worship and in that class young children sit and learn beside their parents.  The often will take a topic and teach on it ...

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Important New Book

Paul Renfro, my fellow elder at Grace Family Baptist Church, has joined with Timothy Jones (editor), Brandon Shields, and Jay Strother to write a very important book.  Perspectives on Family Ministry, takes a careful look at the very important question, “How should the church organize it’s efforts to disciple ...

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Fuller Youth Institute: Right Questions... Wrong Presuppositions

By Matthew Hudson   Recently, editors of Leadership Journal, Marshall Shelley and Brandon O'Brien, interviewed the executive director of the Fuller Youth Institute at Fuller Theological Seminary and a former youth pastor, Dr. Kara Powell (Ph.D., Fuller). It was so refreshing and encouraging to hear them ask one of ...

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