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God Will Make Our Love Enough. Max Lucado is thrilled to run a piece from Leslie Leyland Fields’ book in his blog. You’ll see why her book won Christianity Today’s 2017 Book Award in Christian Living/Discipleship PG 6

HOLLYN Christian recording artist, Hollyn, has already made a big impact on music with her pop and dance songs (Alone, Love With Your Life, All I Need Is You, In Awe to mention a few) since 2015 on Toby Mac’s label, Gotee Records.

Local Missionaries Impact Eastside Community. Urban missionaries like the team at H.I.S. BridgeBuilders-San Antonio have worked in San Antonio’s Eastpoint neighborhood for the past 11 years. PG 7

The 20 year-old singer’s first fulllength album, One Way Conversations was released in February. Beacon Radio’s Steve Teel recently interviewed Hollyn (to be aired Saturday, July 22) and discussed some of the highlights and challenges of her ascent in the music world.

“Stress Buster Week” at Johnson High School. Johnson High School PTSA, Winner’s Circle and the Counseling Office collaborated the week of May 15-19 to introduce students to healthy techniques to offset the stress of AP tests, finals, and standardized tests. PG 14

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Beacon Radio Interview with Hollyn. Hollyn is performing Saturday, July 29, at the Jesus Jam Fest (it’s free!) at the Canyon Lake Recreation Center along with We Are Messengers, Manic Drive, and more. See JesusJamFest.com for information. Beacon Radio airs Saturdays on AM630 and AM630theWord.com from noon to 1:00 pm. Here are some edited excerpts from the interview. STEVE TEEL: You are just 20 years old and I feel like you’ve lived a life. HOLLYN: It’s definitely an awesome life. I want to wake up every day and choose joy and I know there’s a lot of things I could probably complain about or want to do better or look forward to the future but I’ve learned to live in the moment and to be, somewhat wise about the decisions I’m making and trying to do my best to enjoy every minute ‘cause it can get stressful. But it’s definitely a great place to be right now and just trusting that everything is going the way He wants it to go. Yeah, it’s great. I’m really enjoying life right now. It’s a good season for me. STEVE: That’s good. Well you’re 20 years old and you’ve got some mistakes to make and things to learn I hope. That’s one of the weird things about Christian music: We fall in love with people’s music and their writing and then we put them on this pedestal and we’re like, ‘Please don’t make a mistake again,’ or ‘Please don’t be unsure about the next step,’ but you’re 20 years old. You’re supposed to have some uncertainty and some things to figure out, right? Am I right? HOLLYN: Of course. I think I forget that sometimes and I put a lot of pressure on myself to have it all figured out but I think it’s okay to not sometimes (laughing). STEVE: I do too. And one thing I appreciate about this album: I think it’s really cool you’re sharing your heart in your songs. Because I’m a dad of two daughters that are now grown up, they’re still learning and making mistakes even though they’re great, great daughters. But I appreciate about your music is that it seems you’re sharing things,

whether they’re boy struggles, or boy questions, or just doing the right things, or fleeing from situations that might be dangerous. HOLLYN: Thank you. I definitely have a lot of life experience in the past few years that I wanted to write about for this album and I’m really happy with how it all turned out. I want to always be vulnerable with my music and sometimes it’s hard for me to be vulnerable about things that I go through just with people in general in talking about things but for some reason when I write music it just comes out. So I’m just glad that I got to do that for myself and for other people to relate to and ultimately get those things out there off my chest. It’s fun to be able to write songs like that and release things that you’ve walked through. STEVE: I think it’s great because I think about my two daughters and they grew up with Taylor Swift. They had their Christian music as well but they were walking every step of the way, every break-up song, every this or that they went through with Taylor Swift. I love Taylor Swift, dad confession: I love her songs too (laughing). But I love for you, Hollyn, you get to share [life experiences] with Christian girls that have the same sorts of questions and they get to follow a role model. Again, I want you to make some mistakes but I do know your heart for God is so strong. I’m really envious of my co-host today, Claire. She’s a 15-year-old who is really going to relate to your story every step of the way. You’re only five years older than Claire but she’s going to follow you and I think that’s a great thing for young women

and young Christian women everywhere. HOLLYN: Thank you so much. It’s funny to me because I’m from the middle of Ohio, and growing up I looked up to artists that I loved and their music and I was really wishing I could be that one day. I don’t know if I wanted that or just thought it was admirable and I wanted to be able to do it and the fact that I’m here now is just... I still feel like I’m the eight-year old girl that wanted all that and I don’t know how I got here. But it’s funny how people are listening to my music now and relating in the same way that I was--it’s just pretty crazy.

STEVE: Hollyn, one of the cool things about this album, and One Way Conversations is great: great melodies, infectious beats, I just love it. This old man wants to dance. His brain says dance, his body says, ‘Don’t do it. Just listen and enjoy.” But you’ve got songs like Lovely. Tell us about Lovely. HOLLYN: The past few years ever since I became an artist, there was no pressure from anyone or from my label, but for most mainstream artists there is a standard of what girls should look like. And I know there’s a ton of songs about that and I didn’t

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continued. want to write another song about, ‘You don’t have to try to be this size or whatever,’ ‘cause we’ve all heard that. But it’s just annoying to me that I am so hard on myself and I would just get so aggravated when I set goals for myself and couldn’t reach them. But I have so much going on in my life I realized that are not going to be possible to meet in the time limit I have whether it be fitness or something else. I’m always trying and working toward different things and there was a season in my life where the past couple of years I was tormented by self-image and trying to focus on that and it wasn’t that my heart was in a bad place or wrong place, I just wanted that so badly. But I didn’t know how to balance everything and it kind of tormented my mind. I know a lot of girls go through that, I know a lot of guys go through that as well, so I have to remind myself--so I wrote that song for myself. Because a lot of days I wake up and say, ‘Holly, you are seen as a daughter of God and you are lovely and you are made in the perfect image of Jesus so stop being so hard on yourself. That’s not the standard you need to be setting. That’s society’s standard. That’s why I wrote that song and I know a lot of girls can relate with that.

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The Beacon has an exciting new program to watch out for… Our Student Writers Initiative. The young people in the community are getting out in the community and sharing their stories of service, as well as spotlighting different ministries and organizations in San Antonio and the surrounding areas. Look for details to come.

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5 Money-Saving Strategies for New Parents. BY MARY HUNT

Welcoming a new child into the family is a joyous occasion for all, but the additional expense associated with a new bundle of joy can also be a big worry for some parents, especially in this economy. A recent survey found that the average American family spends a whopping $2,577 on baby-related items when a new baby comes home. Luckily, there are plenty of resources available to help bring down the cost of all the “things” you need for a newborn baby. New parents, take note: online classified websites and places that offer nearly-new items for cheap or even free will serve you well. Believe it or not, the baby won’t know

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the difference between a new crib and a gently-used one. The summer months are most common for new arrivals. That means many expectant parents are looking right now to purchase baby-related items, and need to find the space in their homes to store them. Here are a few ideas to help new parents find the items they need without spending more than they can reasonably afford. Secondhand sites. Venture beyond the old standards like eBay.com and Craigslist. org. Posting “wanted” ads for furniture and infant accessories at FreeCycle.org could turn up treasures that are absolutely free and connect you with other young parents in your neighborhood. Also, don’t overlook second-generation classified ad websites like Kijiji.com (“Kijiji” means “village” in Swahili). This is a free, local, family-friendly website that caters to over 1,000 cities and countries around the world. Kijiji’s staff takes every precaution to make sure that local families have a safe place to buy, sell, trade and connect. Mommy exchange. Purchase the items secondhand that babies grow out of quickly. Look for gently used cribs, rocking chairs, changing tables and strollers. Then, as your baby grows out of them, re-list them on the Internet for other local mothers to enjoy. Hold off on hand-me-downs. As their children graduate from strollers to tricycles, most parents decide to donate those expensive baby items or hand them down to a friend or family member. However, the items their child no longer uses could easily earn them much-needed cash. Only 7 percent of parents said they resell baby items once their child has outgrown them, which means a whopping 93 percent of parents are missing out on potential cash. Make the most of your space. Stop house-hunting out of your price range just because you’re bringing a little one home. Instead, find “hidden” storage space in your current residence. Use hooks, bookcases, shelves and ceiling racks to create extra space. Over-the-door shoe racks are also great for organizing baby’s various lotions, potions and small accessories. Re-purpose a room. Think outside of the box when considering how to use the rooms of your home. Transform your dining room, guest room or home office into a nursery, or carve out space for baby in your living room or bedroom. Hang screens, shelves, curtains or have a temporary wall built to separate each space.

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God will make our love enough. Leslie Leyland Fields is a wonderful study in irony. A New Englander living in Alaska. A poet surrounded by burly fisherman. A gentle soul encircled by the wild waters of the Pacific. A college professor who is equally adept with metaphors and salmon nets. She is a writer, net caster, and above all, a follower of Christ. In her most recent book, Crossing the Waters: Following Jesus through the Storms, the Fish, the Doubt and the Seas, she explores the unique relationship Jesus had with the Sea of Galilee and the twelve men he called to “follow me.” I’m thrilled to run a piece from her book in my blog. You’ll see why it won Christianity Today’s 2017 Book Award in Christian Living/Discipleship. — Max

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Jesus is dead. Six of the men have gone fishing. Do you see them out there, laboring all night, with the lights blazing and the two boats coordinating the nets, and haul after haul—nothing? Not a single fish to sell or cook for their own breakfast! Their utter destitution on the water that night is a mirror image of their souls. They have nothing. They can catch nothing. They cannot catch even a minnow on their own. Whatever skills they thought they had are not enough. They remember another night when this happened—three years ago, when it all started. They all think of it, but no one speaks. What’s the point? Just before morning breaks, just before they give up, a man calls to them from shore (Who is it? Can it be?) Hesitant, they do what he says (nets dropped on the other side—again?), and in one impossible moment their nets are full of the biggest fish they’ve ever seen. Don’t they know this pattern—a man speaks and out of nothing, out of dearth and failure explodes this crazy unending abundance? Peter sees him clearly now. He throws on his clothes and

leaps into the sea. This time he thrashes toward the Lord instead of begging him to leave. All the men are around the fire now. It crackles with a homey warmth on the sand. The food is nearly gone. The fire settles. A plume of smoke follows the wind and hovers over one cluster of men, then another. Then Jesus speaks. Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these? Peter startles. Yeshua, sitting on the other side of the embers, looks straight at him. His face is quiet and kind. Simon Peter looks around to see what Yeshua means. He looks at the sea, the boats, his best friends, the fish on the sand waiting to be sold. He blinks, dazed. He knows the truth now. None of this is his. None of this can feed him. Then he looks back. Yes, Lord, you know that I love you, Peter stammers. This is the first time he’s spoken to the Master since that night. He pants with relief. Yeshua blinks, smiles at him, tilts his head, and asks again, Do you love me? Peter freezes. Yeshua isn’t asking, “Will

you ever turn from me again? Will you ever make a mistake again?” His question is for me as well, because I was there too that night. Do you love me? But he asks already knowing the answer. He knows Peter’s mind and heart already; he knows my heart already, but Peter, distrusting himself, does not know until it bursts from him. Lord, you know that I love you! In saying it, Peter knows he does love this now-risen Messiah enough even to die for him. And he will. Simon will die for the name and the sake of Jesus years later. Jesus tells him how he’ll die in another few words. But now, one last time, the only question that matters: Simon, son of John, do you love me? Jesus asks quietly, in a low voice, with unwavering eyes. Peter flinches. Why doesn’t Yeshua believe him? Yes, Lord, you know that I love you! He nearly shouts this time. And just as he speaks he hears it. I hear it. Three questions. Three answers. Is it possible? Is it possible that his every denial is now forgiven, covered by love? By Yeshua’s love for him, and incredibly, his own love for Jesus—his own small, limited human love? Our love is enough, then? Peter would never forget this exchange. He would go on to write to the early church, and to all believers after: “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.”47 This is the gospel right here, in these words around this fire. Peter is forgiven of

his faithlessness, his selfishness, his fear. And I am as well, and every one of us who has ever run away from the one who is our very life. Because this is the truth of following. When he said, “Come, follow after me,” it also meant that he would come after us. We have nothing to offer him. We stumble, we faint, we run the other way, and still he comes after us. He wants us. He loves us. He does not let us go. But Yeshua is not done. This is not just about us. Every declaration of Peter’s love is met with a charge: Feed my sheep. Feed my lambs. Take care of my sheep.  So, Peter’s love is enough. And this love has work to do out in the world. As we have been fed, as we have been forgiven, let us feed others. Others where? Everywhere. Later Jesus commands, “Go into all the world.” Can this be? I want to protest, say back to Jesus, Do you know how weak we are, how wavering our faith, how limited our love? Are you really trusting us? How can we do this? And I know the answer has already been given. Through the fish. Through the wine at the wedding. Through the bread on that hillside, and in so many other ways. He is the God who takes whatever we bring to him—our destitution, our tiny faith, our two small fish, our very human love—and multiplies it beyond measure. God will make our love enough. ©LESLIE LEYLAND FIELDS, JANUARY 2017

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Local Missionaries Impact Eastside Community. BY AMY MORGAN

A mission field can be found across oceans or be as close as your own backyard. Urban missionaries like the team at H.I.S. BridgeBuilders-San Antonio have worked in San Antonio’s Eastpoint neighborhood for the past 11 years. Led by Executive Director Mel Fechner and his parents, Ruben and Sandra, they serve the area surrounding the former Wheatley Courts Housing Project, now redeveloped and called East Meadows. Many of the 400 + new units are now occupied, greatly increasing the ministry’s impact. “We want to proclaim the gospel in word and deed,” Fechner said. “Our vision: the movement of God uniting Christians across cities to transform urban communities through education, health, employment and spiritual development to the Glory of God.” H.I.S. BridgeBuilders–SA grew from the parent organization formed in Dallas by Mike Fechner, Mel’s brother. When Mike succumbed to his 5-year battle with cancer, the San Antonio branch was ready to stand on its own. The non-profit received its own 501c3 designation and

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became autonomous January 1, 2017, Fechner said. The team consists of many volunteers, like Fechner’s parents, as well as parttime employees. Fechner likes to hire residents because he believes working together provides great opportunities to disciple – keeping Jesus at the center, he added. Among his cadre: Norma Duran, Cherie Mixon, Maria Pena, Shane Carter, Donald Walton and Manuel Mendez. Each shares their time and skills: leading Bible studies; translating; teaching ESL, job readiness, or woodworking; tutoring; mentoring; or providing after-school care.

Fechner said they are looking for a volunteer to lead a sports program on their new basketball court. “If somebody wants to serve, we’ll design a way to use their gifts and talents,” he added. “I believe a role of local ministries is to provide opportunities to serve. It’s not just seeing a neighborhood transformed – it’s how God changes us bringing two things that were separated together for the glory of God.” In the summer, H.I.S. BridgeBuildersSA focuses on their children’s reading program, Fechner said, ”Since reading is a

critical life skill, crucial to educational success and necessary to make disciples who read and study the Bible.” So far, 60 children have read 1800 books this year funded by the San Antonio Area Foundation and the Texas Capital Bank. Since H.I.S. BridgeBuilders-SA began ministering to this community, they have served 56,062 residents with more than 42,000+ volunteer hours, bringing $250,000+ annual value to neighborhood and keeping 40 children off the streets and engaged in wholesome activities 10 or more hours a continued on page 9

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week, according to Fechner. The ministry works with businesses, more than a dozen churches and private individuals to enlist financial support and volunteers, as well as coordinates with agencies such as SAHA, the United Way, SAPD and City Council to utilize all available aid. Backpacks and school supplies will be distributed at this year’s August 5th block party, an event held every month to gather the community. Block parties include lunch, live Christian music, a testimony or short sermon and special events appropriate to the season. Ophthalmologist Alan Baribeau provides vision screening for the residents of the neighborhood several times a year. Everything is free to the residents. Block parties are held at 710/714 Arthur, which houses adult ministries and shares space with Calvary Chapel East under Pastor Anton Ferrell. SA Heals, another faith-based urban ministry, offices next door, offering opportunity to collaborate on ways to best assist community members.

The children’s activity center, christened Mike’s House in honor of Fechner’s brother, is located at 339 Gabriel, just across the street from Wheatley Middle School and close to Washington Elementary School. Many children seek tutoring and afterschool activities there. “We are running at capacity and looking for more space,” Fechner said, and stressed the need for additional volunteers, especially retirees. The ministry will host a fundraising Mike Fechner Memorial Golf Tournament Oct. 19, at Silverhorn Golf Club. The cost is $200, which includes golf, dinner, and entrance to all events. A team of four costs $650. Sponsors and golfers are registering now. Sign-up deadline is Oct. 9. Louis Barrios, of La Hacienda de Los Barrios, will provide a chicken fajita buffet dinner. For information or to get involved, Call, text or email Mel at mfechner@hbbsa.org, 210-870-4676, or Ruben at 210-831-0883. Sandra runs the email list, newsletter and website with the technical advice of John Tafolla of Rio Design: FechnerRuben@ sbcglobal.net and Hisbridgebuilders-sa.org.

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The Priceless Gift in Every Trial BY DAVID MATHIS

Few stories turn heads like solid joy in the midst of deep pain. Not only is this kind of unshakable happiness a distinctively Christian experience, but it also amounts to one of the most powerful witnesses we can make before an unbelieving world. It’s one thing to describe joy-in-trial from the outside and ponder it in theory, but it is something distinct to actually walk through it ourselves, experiencing it from the inside, in practice — paddling in the sea billows of sorrow, as one who is hurting and desperately wants the difficulty and pain to go away. In and of themselves, our hardships are emphatically not joyful. That’s part of what makes them hard. What could it mean, then, in circumstances like these, to “count it all joy”?

Not Only Joy When James charges us to “count it all joy,” he does not mean it all — all our pain, all our trials, all our hardship — is joy in and of itself. Pain is pain, not joy. Trials are trying, not sources of pleasure. Rather, what James has for us — and what the gospel of Christ provides — is a lens on life, and a true vantage point on reality, through which even life’s most painful trials have a vital part to play in our joy. And not just “even,” but “especially.” In God’s strange and wonderful ways of ruling this world, life’s most painful trials serve a special purpose for our good. God often draws his straightest lines from life’s greatest difficulties to our deepest and sweetest joys. And not just in the long run, but even in the midst of trial. When trials assault our surface pleasures, we’re pressed to consider our deepest, fullest, richest treasures — and to tap those roots for sustenance in ways we simply do not when all is well. James does not say, “Count it only joy.” We wince. We wail. We hurt. We ask, “How long, O Lord?” God does not expect us to receive our trials as only joy. In fact, Christians, of all people, should be most ready to receive pain as pain, tragedy as tragedy, trauma as trauma. We count, or reckon, our trials as joy, because we don’t simply feel them naturally to be so.

Not Just Tiny Trials Don’t think that James only has little trials in view here. He says “trials of various kinds” because he means the big ones, too. It can be easy to see how God is at work in life’s little inconveniences, but our greatest tragedies press the hardest, darkest

questions on our soul. Has God abandoned me? Is he really in charge and also good? Is he even there? James will not have us relegate his charge to “count it all joy” simply to the easy stuff. The very issue at stake is the hardest things — the “trials” of tragedy, loss, distress, despondency, and long-term despair.

Why Count Pain as Joy? Verse 2 may be straightforward enough, but our souls need more than just a command to own this and see it come to life in us. Our minds and hearts need reasons, or at least a reason. Which is exactly what James supplies in what immediately follows. We could rehearse many of the clear biblical reasons why we can “count it all joy” when we encounter various trials. “We know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose” (Romans 8:28). We can write over every trial, “This light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison” (2 Corinthians 4:17). And we can say with the apostle, “I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us” (Romans 8:18). Or with Jesus, “Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven”. But James has something particular in mind: “for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness” (James 1:3).

not just by protecting our present level of faith, and not just by growing, enriching, developing, and maturing our faith. But in testing our faith, he is keeping it alive. God’s preserving work in us through our pain and difficulty is essential to what matters most, and James makes that connection explicit: “Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him”. Faith does not flourish when it lies

untested. It atrophies when it goes unexercised. And eventually it dies. So, when God loves us with his saving love, and gives us saving faith, he commits, because he cares for us, to inject our lives with various trials to train, grow, sweeten, strengthen, and mature what matters most in us. Our “various trials” in this life are not superfluous to our enduring in faith. And they are not just threats to losing our faith. They are one of God’s essential means through which he preserves the faith he has given us and keeps us as his own.

God Keeps Us Through Trial “Steadfastness” is not a word we use frequently today, and so likely this does not feel especially compelling at first glance. Another word for it would be endurance. Endurance on its own isn’t necessarily desirable ( for instance, enduring in error). What makes it compelling is what we endure in. And what James has in view is very clear: faith in Christ. And for Christians, enduring in faith is what life’s all about. If we do not endure in faith, we will be on the wrong side of what matters most in the universe: being right with God, and enjoying him forever, in Jesus. In other words, one of the things God is doing when he tests our faith is he is preserving our faith. When he lovingly brings trials into our lives — and he does so lovingly for all who are in Jesus — he is working for us, and in us, one of the greatest goods imaginable. When he tests us, he is taking action to keep us. And he keeps us

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Bulverde Spring Branch Pregnancy Care Center 2017 mid-year update BY AMY MORGAN

Churches in the Bulverde-Spring Branch/North San Antonio area have been supporting the work of the Bulverde Spring Branch Pregnancy Care Center, which moved its location to Faithville in early 2017. 14 churches in the greater Bulverde/ Spring Branch area united through the Body of Christ in this community outreach. BSBPCC employs 3 part-time staff, Kim Barton, Director of Operations, at 20 hours a week; Office Manager, Lee Fischer, at 12 hours a week; and a nurse, 8 hours a week. They also rely on a group of 12 volunteer lay counsellors and 2 volunteer nurses to provide their services. First quarter 2017, they averaged 17 clients a month for 47 services. These Volunteers and staff from the Bulverde/Spring Branch Pregnancy Care Center at their new location in Faithville on services included 1 pregnancy test, 1 Highway 46 sonogram, 2 STD tests, and 81 pre-natal their parenting skills and develop relation- education to more than 1400 middle and and parenting classes conducted (in ships to build healthy families. She hopes high school students in Comal ISD English and Spanish) and 49 services to grow the number of clients coming in through the Worth the Wait abstinproviding material assistance like diapers, for pregnancy and STD testing and treatence-based curriculum. clothing and layettes. Kim feels this Proposed Advertisement for September 2016 ment. account shows a great record of retaining The center’s nurses also taught STD their clients as they continue to grow in

The BSBPCC plans to expand the position of their nurse to include community education. Their current nurse is retiring, so they are hiring for that position and hoping to increase her available hours to the community. They would like to increase their volunteer base, including men to mentor male clients, and expand their reach into the B/SB community, through awareness, community connections through the local churches and continued opportunities for fundraising. In addition, they are looking for churches that are willing to host a one time “chit chat” where parents are invited to attend a hosted lunch where childcare is provided and the church is able to share information about their ministries and programs that the parents could benefit from. For information on how to get involved, contact the BSBPCC at www. bulverdepregnancy.org. 17080 Hwy 46 W., Ste. 113 Spring Branch, TX 78070 830-8852277 (office) 830-446-9245 (cell)

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For more than a decade, musicians from the north San Antonio and Bulverde community have enjoyed sharing the gift of song through their annual “Broadway Comes to Bulverde” concerts. The choral offering blends the music and humor of Broadway show tunes and popular movies to entertain and encourage. This year’s concert, titled The Promise of Hope, has been specially designed to uplift those who may experience depression or hopelessness or feel adversely affected by the negative tone of current culture. Songs this year range from selections from Tangled, Shrek and The Twilight Saga, to perennial favorites from Carousel and Godspell, performed by soloists, some semi-professional musicians, as well as the entire well-trained ensemble.

Concerts will be held at Bulverde United Methodist Church, 28300 Highway 281 North, at 7:00 p.m., August 18 and 19, or 3:00 p.m. on August 20. “For a number of years now, singers from the Bulverde/Spring Branch area have gathered annually to practice and perform ‘Broadway Comes to Bulverde,’” said Steve Angle, music director of Bulverde United Methodist Church. “Each year we choose a fun and uplifting theme and sing amazing Broadway and movie classics. It is truly a community building effort that the whole area looks forward to.” Enjoy a musical delight, encouragement and laughter and discover how God has given the Promise of Hope. For more information, call 830-980-7745 or email vicki@ bulverdeumc.org.

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Is it Okay to Tithe My Time Instead of My Money? Let’s set the scene: You attend church, read your Bible, and try your best to follow Jesus—you even tithe regularly. But money’s been tight. Either you’re throwing every dime you’re earning at your debt, or you’re in the middle of a difficult work season and not bringing in as much cash as you need to be. So you start to wonder if the tithe— giving 10% of your monthly income to your local church—is really necessary. You don’t have a ton of money, but you do have some time you could give! Would it be okay to replace the tithe with service to your church instead?

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encourage is doing both—especially if you don’t have the cash to give above and beyond the tithe. Tithing is really a baseline for giving each month. The Bible actually encourages us to give generously far beyond the tithe. But that’s not possible for a lot of people when they’re digging out of debt or going through a rough financial season. In those cases (and anytime, really—there’s never a bad time to serve), giving of your time is the perfect solution! But at the end of the day, serving doesn’t replace the tithe. Tithing is a way to give your heart over to God because you’re reminding yourself your security lies in Christ alone.

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Tithing is a form of worship because it shows God you trust Him—not money—to What to Do If Tithing Feels Tough provide. Matthew 6:24 (ESV) reminds us we So what do you do if money is tight and can’t worship God and money at the same you’re tempted to stop tithing? Look for time: “No one can serve two masters, for ways to increase your income or decrease either he will hate the one and love the other, your expenses so giving doesn’t feel as diffior he will be devoted to the one and despise cult. Maybe that means downsizing or the other. You cannot serve God and money.” cutting an expense that’s more of a luxury On the other hand, when you serve, you than a necessity. Whatever you do, though, worship God by stewarding your time and just keep tithing. Remember: When managyour talents for Him. And Matthew 25:40 ing your money, always give first, save tells us whatever we do to serve others in second and spend third. need, we do for Him. Serving is an awesome Giving your money will help you learn to form of generosity! trust that living this life with 90% of your So yes, He wants you to worship Him as money God’s way is greater than living with you serve and give of your time. But He also 100% your way. His way is always better! wants you to put your faith in Him instead And >Luke 16:10 (NIV) tells us He honors of money—especially since He gives 100% of that choice: “Whoever can be trusted with His money to us while asking us to give just very little can also be trusted with much.” 10% of His money back to Him. God wants us to have a chance to experiNow, tithing isn’t a salvation issue, and ence that truth firsthand—and to give Him God isn’t going to condemn you if you don’t. the opportunity to show off in our lives But tithing is for your benefit. God doesn’t because we’ve honored Him. He wants us to need your money, but He does want your grow in relationship with Him more than we heart. And tithing Proposed is a way to give your heart Advertisement August 2016That can all happen everfor thought possible. over to God because you’re reminding through tithing!

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6 Unpopular Truths Daughters Need to Learn from their Fathers. BY BRENT RINEHART

There’s a lot of pressure on fathers. In an article for Huffington Post, Dr. Gail Gross writes, “Fathers are central to the emotional well-being of their children. Studies show that if your child’s father is affectionate, supportive, and involved, he can contribute greatly to your child’s cognitive, language, and social development, as well as academic achievement, a strong inner core resource, sense of well-being, good self-esteem, and authenticity.”

Whew. That’s a high-stakes assignment. Dads, we really need to get this thing right, seeing as how it can impact nearly every aspect of our kids’ lives. The father-daughter relationship is particularly important. According to the Institute for Family Studies, well-fathered daughters are more likely to graduate from college, get higher paying jobs, are more self-disciplined and confident, and are less likely to become sexual active or pregnant in their early teenage years.

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4. “People are judgmental. And, most people are going to make assumptions about you based on how you look.”

How do we even begin to ensure our daughters are “well-fathered”? Well, it begins with being present, physically and mentally. Beyond that, it takes being intentional. Sometimes, it may mean saying things to your daughter that she doesn’t want to hear or that go against the grain of society. As our daughters grow, it means “keeping it real” (do the kids still say that?) with them, as opposed to telling them what they want to hear or what their friends say. Here are a few things I believe every daughter needs to hear from her father.

1. “Loving others is more important than being loved by others.” The things that are a big deal to you now won’t mean so much to you later. Trust me. Focus on things that will stand the test of time. Instagram likes may seem important, but they are meaningless. There’s nothing more important than being the type of person who cares about others. If you are that girl, I promise you that others will recognize and appreciate you for it.

2. “One seemingly small decision can change your life forever.” Peer pressure is built on the false premise of something not being a big deal. Kids will try to convince other kids to do something they shouldn’t with phrases like, “no one will ever know” or “everyone is doing it.” You need to understand the significance of decisions you make in your youth. One act can have repercussions for decades, or change the course of your life forever. It’s only because of God’s grace that my life has turned out the way it has. Character and integrity matter. And, even if you make a choice you shouldn’t and it doesn’t harm anyone immediately, you still have to live with yourself for years to come.

3. “Your signs of affection – hugs and kisses – are yours.” They are valuable. You decide when – and to whom – to give them. No one can decide that for you, and no one should pressure you. Remember this when you start dating, and look for a God-fearing young man who recognizes your value. Your

It’s not always right, but it is what it is. Keep that in mind when it comes to how you dress. I know you are always going to care about how you look, and that’s okay. But, just remember to do things for yourself, not to please others.

5. “Intelligence, confidence, self-assurance, compassion: these are the traits that define beauty.” Don’t read silly magazines that claim to have all the “beauty secrets.” They are lying to you. They are “fake news.” There are no beauty secrets. You are already beautiful, inside and out. Just focus more on the “inside” part. I promise, you’ll be a better person for it. God gave you the ability to be a smart and confident young woman. God gives you opportunities to show compassion to others. Don’t waste time on the insignificant and neglect these opportunities.

6. “If God remains first in your life, you’ll have fewer regrets when you get to be your dad’s age.” I grew up in a Christian home. But, God wasn’t always first consistently in my life. As a result, I’ve made some bad choices along the way. I believe God turns messes into messages, but I would do anything to go back and do some of those things the right way. Don’t worry about all these things that seem important in your younger years. Just focus on God. Jesus himself tells us: “Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’… But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you” (Matthew 6:31-33).

A Prayer for Your Daughter Father, thank you for my family. You’ve have blessed me so much, entrusting me to care for my children. Help me to be the father you have called me to be. Give me the strength to teach my daughter how to be the woman you have called her to be. Give me the courage to say the things she needs to hear, even if they are not the things she wants to hear. Give me wisdom to know what to say, and give her a tender heart to be receptive to her parents’ guidance. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

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and interactive way. “If we were able to brighten someone’s day – be it by hugging a dog or just eating a fruit bar – we have done a good thing,” said Williams. “And if we can leverage that experience with an opportunity to teach a lesson about healthy life skills and resources available for help, that’s a even better.”

Johnson High School PTSA, Winner’s Circle and the Counseling Office collaborated the week of May 15-19 to introduce students to healthy techniques to offset the stress of AP tests, finals, and standardized tests. Activities were intentionally scheduled between the crunch weeks of AP testing and finals. Opportunities were planned each day featuring a positive “stress busting” coping skill to teach students ways to self-manage their stress and anxiety. Monday, PTSA parent volunteers and students from Winner’s Circle staffed a table in the lunchroom highlighting supportive resources available in JHS’s counseling center. Lisa Williams, STAN counselor, developed a Breathe for Relief card, a business-card-sized resource that lists anxiety-reducing breathing techniques. Students were attracted to the table with a drawing for free Fidget Spinners Tuesday featured a campus visit by certified therapy dogs. Hundreds of students lined up at lunch for their opportunity to hug, pet or take selfies with one of the six dogs, whose usual clientele can be found at Encino Park Elementary School. Campus reaction was overwhelmingly positive. Multiple students were heard to comment this was the best thing Johnson had ever done. “Everyone loves dogs! The dogs were really cute and soft and seeing dogs on campus was so unexpected, it made everyone happy,” said student senior Avery Linhart. One Wednesday, students “socked-it to stress,” wearing crazy socks and bringing a new pair (or pack) to share with the NEISD Clothes Closet. Students were reminded

“Chill Out” was the theme of Friday, as students and faculty joined together to walk away their stress on the track before school. PTSA then distributed a treat of free Paletas, fruit or ice cream bars, to participants. Stress Buster week was designed for Johnson High School to observe National Mental Health Month in a fun, positive

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How God Uses the Bible to Change Us. The Bible is unlike any other book in the world. Nowhere else has God made himself known so clearly. But God did not give us the Bible simply for informational purposes. God gave us the Bible to transform us so that our lives more clearly reflect his Son, Jesus Christ. But before we can understand how God changes us through his Word, we need to look at why we need to be changed.

Made in His Image The Bible is clear that God made human beings in his own image (Gen 1:26–27). Because we are image-bearers he also gave humanity a commission to live out: “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth” (Gen 1:28). God made human beings to reflect his beauty as we fill the earth and rule over it under the authority of the ultimate king—God himself. By worshiping God, humanity would reflect his character.

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and Eve rejected their identity as imagebearers by rebelling against God. Instead of joyfully submitting to God they placed themselves at the center of the universe (Gen 3:1–24) and committed idolatry (Rom 1:21–23). Now instead of worshiping God and reflecting his beauty, we pursue vain things like idols and become like them (Ps 115:3–8; 135:15–18; Isa 44:1–20). So because of Adam’s rebellion against God in the garden, we enter this world with a deeply ingrained tendency towards idolatry. We are like the shopping cart with the bent wheel that always pulls the cart the wrong direction. The way idolatry shows up varies from person to person. But no one is immune to it. Unless someone intervenes at the deepest level of our heart and soul we will pursue idolatry in some form or fashion.

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