Bill Teague’s lpc e-pistle

Debits, Credits and the Cross
 
Every so often I get to put on my old Church Administrator’s hat and lend a hand to those who do such a great job accounting for every penny the church receives and gives away.  As Dawn steadily chips away at the monumental job of transferring all our financial records from one computer system to another, I’ve offered my extra set of eyes when the numbers have gotten just too knotted and gnarled to make any sense. Frankly, I love it. Continue Reading »

They’ll Know We Are Christians by Our Facebook Pages
 
A disclaimer first.  I am a terrible Facebook friend. If you happen to be one of my 101 Facebook friends, you know that I update my status about every three weeks and make only occasional comments on your posts. I have two apps and I don’t really know how I got them. But I do check Facebook fairly often just to listen in on the lives of friends and acquaintances. It’s sort a fly-on-the-wall approach to social networking. Continue Reading »

The Gospel and the Classroom: HPCA and a boy named Kyseem
 
The non-sectarian public school is one of the treasured gifts of the American tradition. Its critical place in our civic life is unquestioned. But the private, often Christian, school is also an essential American tradition that has deepened and continues to deepen the conversation in the public square. Christian education has often acted as a corrective and conscience, especially as non-sectarian sometimes becomes aggressively secular (and hence no longer non-sectarian). Service in explicitly Christian education is a vital ministry to which God calls some of his people. Continue Reading »

Why Bother? 30 Hours, Haiti and Tenwek
 
As they have for more than a decade, middle and high school students from LPC and the community will gather during a late winter weekend for what is called the 30 Hour Famine. The 90+ kids and many of the 100+ adults who will play a role in the weekend will quit eating at noon today and not eat again until 6:00 p.m. Saturday. 30 Hours without food. But 30 hours filled with opportunities to learn and serve and have a little fun. The kids will spend the night at LPC in a “tent city” set up in the Fellowship Hall and elsewhere. There will be games and songs and lots of things to do, and as their stomachs begin to growl, they will be reminded of a world where nearly 1 billion people – one in seven of the world’s population – will go to bed hungry. Why bother? What good does it do to miss three or four meals? Continue Reading »