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Dear Church Family, This week's e-note is actually three mini e-notes from me, from our Executive Director, and from a youth choir volunteer. A Note from Our Senior Pastor: Last week our Lead Team engaged in our monthly all day session. We made good progress on further developing our Ministry Action Plan (MAP). If you would like more information about the session, click here. In preparation for the meeting, all team members read "The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict" published by the Arbinger Institute. Although it's a secular book, it contains a profound spiritual message. The thesis is quite simple-we are called to treat fellow human begins as people and not as objects. In a nutshell, the book affirms the "Golden Rule" to treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. If I were king of BUMC (and I know that I am not!), I would mandate that every member of BUMC read and follow the teachings of "The Anatomy of Peace." If so, it would transform our marriage, our family, our work relationships, and our church. In fact, if we lived this book out at BUMC, God's Kingdom would dramatically advance in our church. Since I can't mandate that you read and follow this book, I highly recommend that you do so, along with your spouse, family, friends, co-workers, Sunday school class, Bible study group, etc. This week marks the 20th anniversary of Stephen Ministry at Brentwood UMC. Congratulations and thank you, Stephen Leaders and Stephen Ministers, for the many hours of caring support the ministry has provided over the years.