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Love Riverside Starting!

We are happy to announce that we have joined the “Love Our Cities” movement and have started LOVE RIVERSIDE which will focus on an annual Serve Day in the city of Riverside, CA (this year it will be October 22, 2016) and also will focus on building ongoing collaboration with leaders and organizations in the city of Riverside.  Check it out www.loveriverside.org

 

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Creating a Culture of Wellness in the Workplace

by Lynn Heatley.   Last week, I had the opportunity to sit around a round table and chat with other leaders about best practices of implementing “wellness programs” in the workplace.  It was an enthusiastic group that shared from a place of diverse practices.  And it represents a new trend to bring greater wellness to the workplace. 

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A Word to the Company of Josephs

by Lynn Heatley.   Recently, I was asked to share an insight that God gave me years ago. It was a time when I was working as an associate pastor on a church staff and my husband, a businessman, was leading in his company. I had struggled in our marriage with the belief that my husband needed to become more involved in ministry life. After a time of prayer, the Lord gave me some divine insights that changed my whole way of thinking.

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Finding Soul Satisfaction

By John Ortberg.  Interview by Greg R. Taylor.  The soul, for many, is a topic deep and mysterious. Some like John Ortberg, pastor of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, consider the soul the most important part of who we are. Recently, Greg R. Taylor, who ministers at Garnett Church of Christ in Tulsa, Oklahoma, sat down with Ortberg to talk about his new book, Soul Keeping and how people can find soul-satisfaction.

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The Power Of The Round Table

Round tables are a wonderful and simple approach. It brings everyone to a common place. No hierarchy, just an invitation to share your heart and story. And as we hear from one another, we begin to connect and see God’s higher purposes of what he is doing and we all begin to form a new story together. And God wonderfully weaves a beautiful tapestry that astonishes us. And we are left in awe of Him.- Lynn

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Another Path of Jesus

By Richard Twiss.  Walking the way of Jesus has meant embracing my Native American  Heritage. My father is Oglala Lakota/Sioux from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and my mother is Sicangu from the Rosebud Lakota/Sioux Indian Reservation, both located in South Dakota. I lived among my mother’s people as a child.

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