Grace and peace to you! Hayes Barton United Methodist Church is a vibrant worshipping community with missions reaching out to the community and throughout the world. Ministries are available for all generations including a variety of Bible studies, age-level music opportunities and Sunday schools classes for all ages.
We trust this web site will inform and connect you with the many pathways to faithful discipleship. If you have further questions please contact a staff member of the church.
Join us in the journey – Rick
Journey - Tour Guides
While thinking about what to write for the Journey, I kept coming back to the word “journey” and how that aptly describes our relationship with God.
Our life on Earth is a journey to an everlasting relationship with God. But God does not let us wander, guessing which way to turn. He has provided his Son to open the path to Him, and the Bible as a road map. Plus he has given us fellow Christians to serve as our tour guides.
My paternal grandfather, Henry was one of my tour guides. I have come to realize that his guidance and influence has led me to Stephen Ministry.
For the last 12 years, I have been a Stephen Minister. Stephen Ministry is about loving others unconditionally, being willing to listen to others share their concerns, and not judging others.
As a very young child, I could not say Henry; instead, I called him Rennee (Ren-Nee). Because I was his first and only grandchild, for the remainder of his life Henry’s name was unofficially changed to Rennee.
Our Vision: To live as disciples of Christ. We accept God’s call to know, experience and share God’s transforming love. “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age.” Matthew 28:19-20
Fretting means getting ourselves "out of joint" mentally or spiritually. It is one thing to say, "Do not fret," but something very different to have such a nature that you find yourself unable to fret. It’s easy to say, "Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him" ( Psalm 37:7 ) until our own little world is turned upside down and
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