Sometime ago, I had contacted a CoC minister and asked for help in building a good adult education ministry. He gave me some good advice and I appreciated that. He and our minister at the time met together and had a good talk.

Unfortunately, it didn’t go anywhere. I stopped writing. The two times I came to visit his church, he wasn’t there. I regretted that, and I wrote to him recently saying as much.

Earlier this week I also mentioned to him that the current minister is very interested in other churches in the area. I provided our minister’s contact information and emailed both people. I hoped something would come of it.

I did not get an email back, but he did post this message on his blog. BTW, I also passed along Alan’s blog and Doug’s blog.

As far as other efforts in unity, there has been talk about working with a COGIC, a CoC, a ‘black CoC’, an Independent Christian Church, and a Vineyard church on various things.

The COGIC is for community involvement. I went to a sponsored dinner various church leaders held over a year ago and met all kinds of people doing real good for the community. The RM churches are for conversations and more. The Vineyard church is because we rented the same building for years. In fact, they still let us use their new building for free and one of our deacons has a key. We’ve had a wedding or two there. (We’ve also had a wedding at the CoC I mentioned earlier.)

You Ready for Some Football?
More concretely, me and another guy are hoping to promote unity and save our football league at the same time. We’ve started now contacting other churches and trying to put a league together. The good news is that we have an extra $50 for referees for the league next year. At $15 a person and eight church teams, we could even get new uniforms. Of course, there have to be changes in the football league, but that is easily overcome. The challenge will be whether or not enough people participate.

To provide some background, what usually happens is that we have members + a team of college students. Over the past few years, fewer and fewer people participate because of flare ups and disagreements on the field. It got really ugly this year with disagreements and with certain issues raised by non-members. I, myself, walked off the field during the first game.

So there’s no guarantee that this will work. However, I do know that it can be a least interesting to others, if we are organized well-enough. The 2007 season may not have eight teams, but if there are four, I think it will be worthwhile. Maybe by 2010 we can realize a league that invites others to join.

One can hope.