by Robert Brown | Oct 24, 2017 | Challenging Times, Sam's Weekly Thought, Spiritual Experiences
by Sam Harley October 20, 2017 In the early 90s, when I was state leader of South Carolina, I got a phone call from a church sister. She told me about her younger sister Rebecca, who had joined the church, struggled a lot and left. Since then she had been married and...
by Robert Brown | Sep 30, 2017 | Children, Other Testimonies, Sam's Weekly Thought
by Sam Harley September 29, 2017 Well, back in the day, Sunday School involved whatever whoever wanted to volunteer thought of doing. This was well before we had a curriculum. At UTS, the seminary, I was in a ministry class that required me to do some kind of ministry...
by Robert Brown | Sep 23, 2017 | Church Businesses, MFT and Fundraising, Sam's Weekly Thought
by Sam Harley Our church started a lot of businesses, some for lofty reasons, some just to make money. There were and are so many of that I can’t do them justice. If you were a part of any church business, would you be willing to record something about what it was,...
by Robert Brown | Sep 9, 2017 | Other Testimonies, Sam's Weekly Thought
by Sam Harley September 9, 2017 Joining the church back in 1978, there were some things I had to give up. I loved acting, dancing, reading books and being by myself for long periods of time. From the time I joined, there was no reading books except for the Divine...
by Robert Brown | Aug 26, 2017 | IOWC, MFT and Fundraising, Sam's Weekly Thought
by Sam Harley August 25, 2017 Going from 5 years of MFT to an IOWC team was an abrupt transition. There were several things to get used to. First, fundraising (unless you were at a flower stand) involved a lot of physical activity. You were walking or running wherever...
by Robert Brown | Aug 15, 2017 | MFT and Fundraising, Sam's Weekly Thought
by Sam Harley There are some things I am not proud of. What I now know about myself – I am an introvert, I need to talk things over with someone, need nature and quiet to recharge – I only sensed back then. Being around people was hard for me, it wears me out. I need...