Historic Tabor United Methodist Church (TUMC), located in the Perkiomen Valley’s beautiful countryside, hosts a “Back to the Grind” ministry every Monday morning for drivers on their way to work and who pass the church on Hendricks Station Road in Upper Salford Township. TUMC members greet drivers with coffee and tea starting at 6 AM. TUMC is also mindful of the environment and instead of using Styrofoam cups provides drivers with reusable travel mugs. Drivers are asked to bring the travel mu...
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Supporting God’s Fab 5 in Eastern Pennsylvania
When John Wesley created his Values Guiding Principles that included serving the poor and the children he would be pleased to witness how we and the UMC Eastern Pennsylvania Conference have responded to his call. God has blessed us in eastern Pennsylvania with five exceptional and extraordinary institutions of caring and serving. These Methodist institutions serve and care for children, the sick, families, and seniors.
God’s Fab 5 in eastern Pennsylvania in the Philadelphia area are the Si...
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Last Night at Ablaze
Last night at Ablaze we discussed how some times as we progress in our relationships with our parents, we start to push away from them in our teenage years. But we have suggested that they don’t need to and should not ever push their parents our of their lives. Learning how to be an adult is more about accepting our relationships and taking personal responsibility for our actions in those relationships. Some times we for get that our parents have thoughts feelings just like we do. So w...
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Parent Cue 1/7/2012 through 1/22/2012
When we were growing up, our family was everything to us. They were the safe place to run to. They were the calm in the storm. They were the people whose opinions we trusted most and whose advice we took to heart. But over the years, especially the teen years, the voices of our mom and dad become more like nails on a chalkboard than the sweet sound of comfort. So what happened? Our relationship evolved. And while that isn’t necessarily the most comfortable thing in the world for a teenager to go...
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Christmas Parent Cue for Ablaze Parents
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Plenty—it seems—is never really sufficient. “Christmas” in the mind of most is synonymous with “getting.” We build an empire of expectations for this season, only to end up disappointed and left wanting something more, or already bulldozing ahead to next year. There’s something amiss here. Christmas should be our call to trade consumption for generosity. To trade the next best thing for one everlasting gift. What if this year was the start of a new kind of Christmas? A Christmas unlike...
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