Renewed Resolutions
The first month of year is always a time when people enact their New Year’s resolutions. This yearly tradition is a time for us to take...
Hayes Barton Partners with ZOE to Empower African Orphans
Empowerment. The process of developing the capacity to control one’s own life; to become self-sufficient; to garner the strength, skills,...
New Year Blessings
In Scripture from Luke 2:22-40 we hear that throughout his life Jesus grew in wisdom. If we are to be disciples of Jesus Christ and...
Hayes Barton in the World
Last Friday, I had the oppo rtunity to volunteer at the Pride for Parents Store located at First Presbyterian Church downtown. This...
New Year, New Way: Conversations on the Way Forward for the UMC
The mainline church across America is emerging as a movement to focus on the love proclaimed in the gospel message. We find the Church...
Advent Events
Greetings to all of you in the HBUMC community! I pray that this note finds everyone doing very well and having a happy first week of...
Advent the Kaizen Way
A few days before Thanksgiving, I pulled out a small book that I read a year or so ago. The dear friend who gifted me with the tome...
Scattered to Serve: The Light of Christ in the World
This past weekend it was a humbling honor to participate in the Scattered To Serve mission and ministry of HBUMC. The lives we touched...
Cloister Thoughts
Matthew, Luke, and John all make the twelve disciples of Jesus the good guys in the Biblical story. Next to Jesus, they are the most...
Share a Glimpse of Heaven
I’m not sure about the rest of you all, but for me the last four months have flown by! It seems like it was just a short time ago that I...
