Mattersey Hall Leadership Lectures

This year in June I was privileged to lecture at Mattersey Hall College in northern England. It was a thrill to be able to take our Student Ministries Pastor, Ricky Spindler who is like a son to me, and share in the ministry and fun! Paul and Carol Alexander along with Glenn Belfour and all the team are doing a great job there.

Many of you requested our teaching notes and we finally got around to posting them. I hope you can print them off and reuse them in your portion of building the Kingdom of God.

Love and prayers,

Gary Grogan aka Papa G

P.S: It was a thrill to watch England and USA tie in the World Cup with our Mattersey friends. LOL

NOTES:

Wednesday June 9--Chapel and Lectures

Thursday June 10--Lectures

Friday June 11--Lectures

Sunday June 13--Langold Message

Sunday June 13--Langold Power Point

PICTURES:

Urbana School of Ministry

We would like to let you know about an exciting training opportunity for young adults in your congregation who are preparing for full-time ministry. This fall, we are kicking off the Urbana School of Ministry which is fully accredited with the School of Urban Missions in Oakland, California. Students can earn a full Bible College degree at a fraction of the cost.

USM is located in the middle of a richly diverse community, hosting individuals from 121 nations of the world. It is a center of academic excellence that is committed to creativity and innovation. Students may find themselves handing out groceries to a single mom in our food pantry, sharing a meal with a Muslim couple, speaking words of hope to a runaway teen, or introducing a future CEO to Jesus.

At USM they will receive a quality classroom education and practical ministry experience in a vibrant church.
For years, our leadership has envisioned a school and church partnership where students could learn in the classroom and through hands-on ministry. They will gain not simply head knowledge, but skills they can implement and utilize immediately.

Students will then participate in one of the many dynamic ministries of Stone Creek Church in which they can observe/learn and actively participate. Each student will be mentored by church leadership, learning how to passionately follow Christ and live in the fullness of the Holy Spirit.

If you have any young adults who would be interested in attending USM, please contact our cohort director, Adam Sikorski at asikorski@sum.edu.

Dying to Self

I used this at our District Discipleship Camps in the past and I know it will be a blessing to you. Wise words for all of us to live by and experience His Highest blessing in our lives. Love you. Papa G


When you are forgotten, or neglected, or purposely set at naught, and you don't sting and hurt with the insult or the oversight, but you heart is happy, being counted worthy to suffer for Christ, THAT IS DYING TO SELF.

When your good is evil spoken of, when your wishes are crossed, your advice disregarded, your opinions ridiculed, and you refuse to let anger rise in your heart, or even defend yourself, but take it all in patient loving silence, THAT IS DYING TO SELF.

When you lovingly and patiently bear any disorder, any irregularity, and impunctuality, or any annoyance; when you can stand face to face with waste, folly, extravagance, spiritual insensitivity...and endure it as Jesus endured it, THAT IS DYING TO SELF.

When you are content with any food, any offering, any raiment, any climate, any society, any solitude, and any interruption by the will of God, THAT IS DYING TO SELF.

When you never care to refer to yourself in conversation, or to record your own good works, or itch after commendation, when you can truly love to be unknown, THAT IS DYING TO SELF.

When you can see your brother prosper and have his needs met, and can honestly rejoice with him in spirit and feel no envy nor question God, while your own needs are far greater and in desperate circumstances, THAT IS DYING TO SELF.

When you can receive correction and reproof from one of less stature than yourself, and can humbly submit inwardly as well as outwardly, finding no rebellion or resentment rising up within your heart, THAT IS DYING TO SELF.

Are you dead yet? In these last days the Spirit would bring us to the Cross. "That I may know HIM...being made conformable to His death."

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