Archive for January, 2007
the Thread 1.23.07 Volume 3.1
Good Morning! (Welcome Message)
…or, better said; good afternoon! I hope all is well in your neck of the woods. Everything is great in mine. Lori is doing well and the baby planning is going on like Donkey Kong! This year is truly going to be a whirlwind kind of year.
The church is wonderful and as you can see, in our on-going plan to make life as simple as possible, we have come up with our latest time and money saving solution for the church. We are not going to be using constant sontact for our email list any longer pending this test. So, let us know if you want to be removed from the Thread events and encouragement email weekly. We have built our email list into our church weblog and now, everything is a one step process, not to mention the money we are saving.
Some of our plans this year include:
1. Changing our venue for our Tapestry Sunday Nights
2. Along with that, changing our time to a more cool and classy time that’s a bit more culturally relevant to our area.
3. Start a NEW Sunday Morning Service by summer. (Planning is happening right now). This service will NOT replace the current Tapestry Service (MY FAVORITE TIME). Instead, it will be a new service purposely aiming to reach a new morning family crowd, effectively reaching out to the 10:30-11:30AM crowd.
4. Continue the plan with the Reserve, building our refreshing center, placing it in trust and finsihing the financing project.
5. Have one BIG family FUN event every month!
6. Keep doing GSF every second Saturday of the month.
7. Have an amazing summer with the cookout series and much more.
8. Send out up to 5 mission teams with GSF and COF.
The goal for the year is to have fun and reach out to others all year long while truly pursuing the PRESENCE of GOD.
I think we can do it. And I must say that I am so happy that all of you are along for the journey!
Let’s chat later…
Inspire! (Quote of the Week)
-Thomas Leonard
Encourage! (The Story or Thought of the Week)
Title| “Choices”
Author| Byron Pulsifer
Credit| Wow4U
Choices. We all make them everyday. Some are good, and some are not so
good. You can surrender your destiny to the desires of others, or you
can make your own. The point is that we can make choices that help us
to move forward through adversity, or we may make choices that assist
others to move beyond or through some of life’s issues.
“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice;
it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
William Jennings Bryan
Choices are within everyone’s command. No one has to do, or is
obligated to live their lives as others live.
On the other hand, inevitably at some point in our lives, we witness,
first-hand, choices that other people, friends, family members or
colleagues make that we can clearly see are leading them down a
slippery slope to either immediate devastating consequences, or a
future that can be potentially harmful.
As caring people, we probably have all made efforts to try and assist
other individuals to change or alter a choice so they won’t
experience what we feel will be negative reactions, rejection, or,
worse still, criminal prosecutions. While there is nothing inherently
wrong or misguided about our good intentions, the ultimate choice
people make is entirely up to them. We can’t live other people’s
lives for them; we don’t want to put ourselves in any position that
appears or demonstrates that we own their problems or own their
choices. These people own their own lives; they make the choices, good
or bad.
“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else
expects of you.
Never excuse yourself.”
Henry Ward Beecher
Choices. We make hundreds of choices in our lives. Other people make
hundreds of choices. We might wish and hope that we can change other
peoples’ choices so they can avoid potential problems be that drug
abuse, alcohol, relationships, parenting and on and on. But, we cannot
make choices for others - what we can strive to do is offer
constructive opinions or suggestions, when asked, or referrals to
professionals who can assist in one’s decision-making. A quote by W.
Clement Stone may help you, or may help others keep moving forward
through the never-ending maze of choices:
“You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You
may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but
actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to
choose for yourself.”
WORDS OF WISDOM IN THE FORM OF QUOTES:
“We design our lives through the power of choices.”
Richard Bach
“And if I may be so bold to offer my last piece of advice for someone
seeking and needing to make changes in their life-If you don’t like
how things are, change it! You’re not a tree. You have the ability to
totally transform every area in your life-and it all begins with your
very own power of choice.”
Jim Rohn
“It is always your next move.”
Napoleon Hill
“You don’t have to buy from anyone. You don’t have to work at any
particular job. You don’t have to participate in any given
relationship. You can choose.”
Harry Browne
“When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that in itself is
a choice.”
William James
Word! (Verse of the Day)
Motivate! (News You Can Use)
Title| New Contest in Search of Best Soul-Winning Method
Author| Audrey Barrick
Credit| Christian Post Reporter
Date| Mon, Jan. 22 2007 01:19 PM ET
A new contest has kicked off to find some of the best methods of evangelism.
The purpose of the contest is to encourage all believers to take part in the Great Commission and lead people to Christ. The man behind the contest is an average Christian who doesn’t know much about how people are saved other than to cheer during altar calls and occasionally help lead someone to Jesus.
Donald Mitchell is a 60-year-old strategy consultant in Boston. He is also a minor celebrity among book buyers and writers for his online book reviews, as Forbes magazine described him.
Mitchell usually attends internet services for Calvary Chapel in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. As a youngster, he was a “backslidder” about going to Sunday School, he told The Christian Post in an e-mail, and was regularly evangelized to return. He only began witnessing in the last year or two.
But one day in August 2006, he was moved by a Bill Keller devotional and received a new commission.
“[God] told me to launch a contest to find better ways to save more souls through Jesus by using the 2,000 percent solution process and then to publicize what is learned as widely as possible,” Mitchell wrote in his blog.
“I’m very humbled that God wants me to take on this task,” he said.
Already, numerous entries on the best and most creative soul-winning methods have been e-mailed, most of which describes programs that operate at much less than one percent of the cost of programs that evangelists “brag about” as being very cost effective, Mitchell added.
More than a decade ago, God had called Mitchell to a project to help the world make 400 years worth of normal progress in the 20 years between 2015 and 2035. Since that calling, he published The 2,000 Percent Solution which describes how to accomplish 20 times the current results with the same effort and resources – The 2,000 Percent Solution Workbook and other books on productivity.
Now, he’s setting out to co-author The 2,000 Percent Solution for Saving Souls with the winner of his newly launched contest.
The 101 next best solutions to saving souls will be selected and featured in a second book, The 101 Great Solutions for Saving More Souls.
“We tend to think of evangelists and pastors as having this responsibility,” said Mitchell, according to Agape Press, “but really it’s one that we all have.”
“If all Christians do their part, we can create an enormous spread of knowledge about Christianity and our personal experiences with Christianity . . . and allow those who then want to be saved to be saved.”
Mitchell hopes to have the books available for Christmas 2007. All profits and royalties from the books will be donated for “implementing the solutions” described in the books.
Contest entries are being accepted until Easter.
Contest rules are available at: www.livespirituallybetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com.
Enjoy! (Events)
the Tapestry’s Events for the Upcoming weeks include:
1. Tapestry Monthly Game Night at the Hedrick’s has been rescheduled to this Sunday, 1/28
2. Wednesday Night and Thursday Night Small groups are ongoing.
3. All Small Groups officially start NEXT WEEK!
MORE Next week on GSF, the small groups, the move, the date for the Sunday Morning startups, and our family fun event for February!
Ignite! (Heroes of the Faith - Link)
John Hyde, 1865-1912, Missionary to India
Author| Unknown
Posted on| 03.13.2003
Category| Biographies
Source| CCN
Originating Post| believersweb.org
John Hyde 1865-1912 John Hyde, better known as “The Praying Hyde,” was born in Carrollton, Illinois. His father was a Presbyterian minister who faithfully proclaimed the Gospel message and called for the Lord to thrust out laborers into His harvest. He prayed this prayer not only in the pulpit but also in the home, around the family altar. This made an indelible impression on the life of young John, as he grew up in that atmosphere. John was graduated from Cathage College with such high honors that he was elected to a position on the faculty. However, he had heard the divine call to the regions beyond, and was not disobedient to the heavenly vision. So he resigned his posi- tion and entered the Presbyterian seminary. In Chicago, he was graduated in the spring of 1892 and sailed for India the following October. His ministry of prayer in India during the next 20 years was such that the natives referred to him as “the man who never sleeps.” Some termed him “the apostle of prayer.” But more familiarly he was known as “the praying Hyde.” He was all these and more, for deep in India’s Punjab, he envi- sioned his Master, and face to face with the eternal, he learned lessons of prayer which were amazing. Often he spent 30 days and nights in prayer, and many times was on his knees in deep intercession for 36 hours at a time. His work among the villages was very successful, in that for many years he won four to ten people a day to the Lord Jesus Christ. Hyde was instrumental in establishing the annual Sialkote Conferences, from which thousands of mission- aries and native workers returned to the stations, empowered anew and afresh for the work of reaching India with the Gospel. Hyde’s life of sacrifice, humility, love for souls and deep spirituality, as well as his example in the ministry of intercession, inspired many others to effect these graces in their own lives and ministries. He died February 17, 1912. His last words were, “Shout the victory of Jesus Christ!”
Listen! (Music for the week)
Song Title| Sweetly Broken
Album| More Than Ever: Live From The Rockies [CD]
Author| Jeremy Riddle
Chords| (CLICK HERE)
Listen| (CLICK HERE)
My worship song encouragement for the week by far is Sweetly Broken. It is one of my all time favorites now and is totally rocking out the airwaves. Our radio stations just can’t get enough!
So, if I were you, I would head over to Vineyard Music and listen, read and buy!
(CLICK HERE)
Learn! (Book of the Week)
View! (Picture of the Week)
And Just to close, don’t forget, when life hands you lemons, make lemonade or better yet, lemon meringue pie! WOOT!
And as always, my prayer is that the Lord blesses and keeps you, that He shines His face upon you and that He draws you closer to others as He leads you nearer to His Presence.
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Entry for January 17, 2007
The Entire List of Tapestry Related Links
(Of course this is growing like wildfire, so I will put a new post up later on!)
Our Sites
the Tapestry Church
All URL’s
tapestrychurch.net
tapestrychurch.org
tapestryvineyardchurch.com
tapestryvineyardchurch.net
tapestryvineyardchurch.org
tapestryvineyard.com
tapestryvineyard.org
tapestryvineyard.net
rockvillevineyard.com
thetapestry.organization
www.tapestrylife.net
www.tapestrylife.org
thetapestry.net
The Tapestry Conversation
The Thread
The Tapestry Cafe
www.tapestrycafe.net
Tapestry Studios
www.tapestrystudios.net
www.tapestrystudios.org
DC Vineyard Network
All URL’s
dcvineyard.net
vineyarddc.com
thetapestry.net/work
Sparkplug Ministries
All URL’s
sparkplugministries.com
sparkplugministries.net
sparkplugministries.org
Go Spread Fire
All URL’s
gospreadfire.com
gospreadfire.org
gospreadfire.net
Circle of Friends
circleoffriendsgroup.com
The DC Outreach
www.bigstreetthing.com
www.bigstreetthing.net
www.bigstreetthing.org
5000 Dollar Baby
5000dollarbaby.com
Holy Worldwide
holyworldwide.com
holyworldwide.net
holyworldwide.org
Personal
dustinhedrick.org
dustinhedrick.net
dustinhedrick.com
renaissanceofasoul.com
thetapestry.org/anic
The Big 7
ComeRevive.Us
AncientWord.com
This-is-That.net & This-is-That.org
deeperthandermis.net
deeperthandermis.org
radicalbalance.com
renaissanceofasoul.com
Affiliates & Sponsors Page
The Sponsors
My Space - Tapestry (Click Here)
My Space - Tapestry Blog (Click Here)
Yahoo 360 (Click Here)
Friendster (Click Here)
Facebook (Click Here)
Xanga (Click Here)
the Tapestry Conversation Blogger (Click Here)
the Tapestry Church Blogger (Click Here)
Blogger - the Reserve (Click Here)
the Tapestry on 43Things (Click Here)
the Tapestry on 43Places (Click Here)
the Tapestry on 43People (Click Here)
List of Bests - Tapestry Church (Click Here)
Tapestry Yahoo Local Listing (Click Here)
Tapestry Google Local Listing (Click Here)
Tagworld - Tapestry (Click Here)
Tagworld - Soul Renaissance (Click Here)
Tagworld - PD (Click Here)
Multiply - Tapestry (Click Here)
Multiply - the Reserve (Click Here)
Live Journal (Click Here)
Squidoo - Tapestry (Click Here)
Squidoo - the Reserve (Click Here)
Squidoo - Renaissance of a Soul (Click Here)
Squidoo Lensmaster Site (Click Here)
Squidoo Group - Tapestry (Click Here)
Other Social Sites
the Tapestry on del.icio.us (Click Here)
the Tapestry on Technorati (Click Here)
Magnolia (Click Here)
Rapidfeeds - Tapestry (Click Here)
Protopage - Tapestry (Click Here)
Protopage - Personal (Click Here)
Feed Burner (Click Here)
Flikr - dustinhedrick (Click Here)
Flikr - Tapestry (Click Here)
The Tapestry Reserve The Reserve
Search Engines
thetapestry.org
comerevive.us
r.evive.us
evive.us
The Tapestry Safe Search Site
Tapestry Office
office.tapestrychurch.org
Original post by PD .
No commentsRemembering Dr. King
I HAD to take a moment to bow the head today, so to speak as we remember Dr. King this week. I read the daily thought from Charity Focus, which I am including here below. I also included my comment that I added to their site. Friends, few people have ever affected me in my search and quest for the radically balanced heart I have found in the Tapestry. Dr. King is one of the ones on that list with Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu (Just an aside; I got to hear Archbishop Tutu speak at American University, in 2004), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Lincoln. These often humble revolutionaries were not quiet and I believe that their legacy deserves remembrance. May we never forget from whence we came!
the Charity Focus’ Post:
January 16, 2007
–Martin Luther King Jr.
MLK’s Influence On You:
Almost 40 years after his death, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his vision continue to provide hope and inspiration to the world. Marian Wright Edelman — activist and winner of the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism — offers reflections on her mentor’s life and message based on their friendship. In this article, Edelman lends insight into King’s definition of service, and encourages readers to celebrate the yearly American holiday as “a day on, not a day off,” using his birthday to come together for community service and action. [more]
Be The Change:
As a part of a special report on Martin Luther King Jr., CNN asked readers what impact his words and actions had on him. Read select responses and add your own reflection. [more]
My Comment:
Legacy is an interesting thing. It’s the act of leaving something behind when you yourself, must go on. It’s the knowledge that you, yourself may never get the benefit of the finished work, yet still continuing the work for those that come after you. It’s the desire to see your descendents, both genetic and not exceed your present status. It’s the dream that drives the visionary to continue when the mountain seems too high, the journey seems too long and the way too treacherous. It’s the award that no living man ever receives.
Legacy is the climax, crowning touch, finale, finish, height, payoff, peak, pinnacle, summit, and zenith of the often un-thanked yet fondly remembered. Legacy gives no pats on the back to the still living, yet is the greatest Eulogy of the recently past.
No artist has been fully appreciated in their own time.
May we leave a legacy. May we see the art in our existence though other men only see rubbish.
Just some thoughts as we remember Dr. King.
Thank you Dr. King for DREAMING. May we dream a bit today as we think of you. May we go and see over the mountains in our own lives. Thank you!
dhedrick
And as we continue to forge along this journey, I want to remind us to dream, imagine and have fun this year as we cross the mountains and enter the other side of our vision; “a community of faith lived daily in the Presence of GOD and connected openly with others.” I eagerly await the times that we go up to worship the Lord with joyful shouts and dancing.
Take a moment right now to listen to one of Dr. King’s messages. (CLICK HERE)
Oh GOD, may we dream and anticipate! Bring on the expectation!
AMEN!
Have a great week Tapestry!
More Resources: (CLICK HERE)
No commentsGSF Saturday!
Hey Gang,
Just a reminder that we have Go Spread Fire (GSF) this Saturday, January 13, 2007. We begin at 8 a.m. in Rockville at PD and Lori’s.
If you are unable to make it at 8 a.m. please free to join us any time. Call us at 301-529-8164 and we can let you know where we are. Please dress warmly, we spend a lot of time outside. In case you want to know what the day will be like, here is the link to the GSF website.
Contact us if you have any questions and let me know if you are considering coming out!
We are meeting at PD and Lori’s in the morning and in the evening. Their address is 213 Blandford Street, Rockville, MD 20850.
Su
No commentsNew Year, New Resources
In an effort to encourage and inspire as we march on into our New Year, I am going to start offering a number of articles on some things that will brings light and life to your new year! So, here are a few sites and resources that I HIGHLY recommend. Some of them are hot and running, some of them are up and coming, however, you might want to bookmark this post in order to come back over and over again!
1. For encouraging newsletters in your inbox daily, try the Charity Focus Newsletter: www.dailygood.org. Here is the RSS Feed in case you are interested.
(CLICK HERE) to learn more about RSS Feeds and what they can do for you. And (CLICK HERE) here for a more advanced look.
2. For one of my all time favorite daily devotions, (CLICK HERE) to go and sign up for Oswald Chambers’, “My Utmost for His Highest.” Or, you can go to the Heartlight website and sign up for “My Utmost” and many more different daily emails! VERY ENCOURAGING!
3. For very encouraging pictures that you could use as backgrounds, there are two places that I call my favorites! First, Freefoto.com is beautiful and then, Crossmap.com. That’s one way to awake your soul daily, look at great pictures!
4. For a great Christian search engine, try: Crossmap.org or even our growing search engine: search.tapestrychurch.net.
5. For a great daily reading plan that is becoming more interactive daily, go to: Ancientword.com. It’s a work in progress. And for a great Bible search try, Biblegateway.com.
6. There’s a new site, directory and search engine that we are working on that will definitely be something you want to keep tabs on. It will have stories, encouragements and articles that can only help you to believe that GOD can move today just as He did in the past. That is: ComeRevive.Us. Now, it’s a work in progress, however, trust that this year, it will be growing and expanding with all the research we have done over the last 13 years!
7. For worship music, check the Vineyard site out. There are always new dowloads where you can try new music out! Also, try out: ShareSong.org for amazing free new original music!
And whatever you do, keep your eyes open as we are prayerfully progressing toward our new venture. We are working to start an online worship radio station. You will definitely be hearing more about this later. This year, we hope to bring new life in new ways to the internet. So, have fun, have joy, there’s hope!
No commentsHappy New Year!
Happy New Year Tapestry!
And what an exciting year it is going to be! Here are a few things to pray about.
1. The Reserve is going to be building it’s refreshing center and then finalizing paperwork to become a land reserve trust.
2. The Tapestry is praying about adding a Sunday Morning Service.
3. We are praying about a new venue.
4. More new life groups starting at the end of the month.
5. Tons of FUN events! We will be having more fun than you can shake a stick at this year.
6. Continuing the GSF Legacy of outreach!
7. MISSIONS, MISSIONS, & MORE MISSIONS!
All of which you will hear so much more about over the next couple of months.
And remember, we are going to dig into the topic of Signs, Wonders and the Kingdom of GOD this Sunday and for the next couple of weeks.
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