2019 P&W Retreat: Network Updates
Treasuring Christ Together Network
Pastors and Wives Retreat
2019 Network Updates
Treasuring Christ Together Network
Pastors and Wives Retreat 2019
2019 Network Updates
Additional Sessions
2019 P&W Retreat: Jesus Saves Sinners!
Treasuring Christ Together Network
Pastors and Wives Retreat 2019
Kempton Turner: Jesus Saves Sinners!
Additional Sessions
2019 P&W Retreat: Joy in Loss
Treasuring Christ Together Network
Pastors and Wives Retreat 2019
Kenny Stokes: Joy in Loss
Additional Sessions
TCT National Call with John Piper
On September 4, 2019, we sat with Pastor John via video conference call and he shared some thoughts on maintaining wonder in pastoral ministry and answered a variety of personal questions from TCT pastors and planters.
An Hour with Pastor John
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On September 4, 2019, we sat with Pastor John via video conference call and he shared some thoughts on maintaining wonder in pastoral ministry and answered a variety of personal questions from TCT pastors and planters.
John Piper is known as founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary; however, he’s affectionately known among the network as “Pastor John” who in many ways is the “grandfather” of our network.
For 33 years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is author of more than 50 books, including Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist and most recently Why I Love the Apostle Paul: 30 Reasons.
TCT National Calls are hour-long video chats / webinars during which TCT features guest speakers who will share wisdom and focused content from their experience as pastors, planters, or ministry component strategists.
TCT National Call with Robyn Huck
On May 22, 2019, we gathered as a network with counselor Robyn Huck via video conference call and she shared her research and wisdom on listening and empowering female voices in complementarian spaces.
Prized
Thoughts & Observations on Ministry Structures which Promote Female Leadership Spaces in Complementarian Churches
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On May 22, 2019, we gathered as a network with counselor Robyn Huck via video conference call and she shared her research and wisdom on listening and empowering female voices in complementarian spaces.
Robyn Huck is a counselor at CCEF New England with more than 15 years of counseling and speaking experience. Robyn is a regular Bible study leader and has spoken at many women’s events. She has a passion for teaching the Bible to women and helping connect biblical truths and comforts to the challenges of life. Robyn and her husband Karl are parents to three grown children and have two fabulous daughters-in-law and four grandchildren! They enjoy big band music, fox trot and swing dancing, tandem bicycling, traveling, the outdoors, and time with their family. You can read some of Robyn’s writing here.
TCT National Calls are hour-long video chats / webinars during which TCT features guest speakers who will share wisdom and focused content from their experience as pastors, planters, or ministry component strategists.
2018 P&W Retreat: TCT Network Updates
2018 TCT Network Updates | Tim Cain, John Pope, Sean Cordell
2018 P&W Retreat: The Glory of God in Listening
The Glory of God in Listening | Kenny Stokes
2018 P&W Retreat: Resting in Christ
Resting in Christ in Disappointment and Discouragement | Justin Perry
Payroll and Accounting Services By Hewn Group
The accounting firm Hewn Group has offered the following discounted services to TCT Member Churches and Planters. Contact Hewn Group for more information and mention that your church is part of the Treasuring Christ Together Network.
Hewn Group
(919) 335-5254
Online Contact Form
Payroll Services
Service is a holistic payroll solution. TCTN church would provide salary, housing payments, and benefits as well as submit hours and reimbursement amounts if applicable; Hewn Group would administrate all other payroll tasks.
Includes:
1. direct deposit with pay stubs emailed to each employee
2. new hire reporting if required
3. Form 941 quarterly (Federal payroll tax return form)
4. quarterly or monthly state payroll tax return forms
5. quarterly or monthly state tax deposits
6. state annual reconciliation form for payroll tax deposits
7. W-2 sent to each employee via email as well as W-3 to IRS
8. state unemployment quarterly filing if required
Bookkeeping Services
Service is a monthly after-the-fact bookkeeping. This means that Hewn Group would be using bank/credit card statements in conjunction with cash receipts to do the books.
Includes:
1. restricted funds reporting and allocations
2. budget tracking: Hewn Group would input a church’s yearly/monthly budget and be able to provide monthly statements that show progress against the budget
3. monthly financial statements delivered by 20th of following month that includes
- statement of activities (this is known as a profit and loss statement in the for-profit world)
- statement of financial position (this is known as a balance sheet in the for-profit world)
- functional expenses statement (this report shows expenses in the fundraising, general & administrative, and program expenses
- updated budget statement
TCT National Call with Dhati and Angie Lewis
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On September 12, 2018, we gathered as a network with our friends Dhati & Angie Lewis via video conference call and they shared their collective wisdom on parenting through the unique lens of discipleship. Dhati & Angie are the parents of 6 children.
Dhati is the Lead Pastor of Blueprint Church in Atlanta and the Executive Director of Community Restoration with the North American Mission Board. He earned his Master of Arts in Cross Cultural Ministry from Dallas Theological Seminary and most recently received his Doctorate of Ministry in Great Commission Mobilization from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is most passionate about making disciples, equipping urban leaders, and loving his family. On any given day you might find Dhati changing a plan, coaching his kids in basketball, or strategizing on a whiteboard. He is the author of both the Bible Study and book, Among Wolves: Disciple Making in the City.
Angie is mom to 6 children–-Trinity (8th), Jade (7th), Briaiah (5th), Dhati Jr (4th), Brayden (3rd) and Nathaniel (2nd). Angie invests her time in their local elementary school where she was given a job as parent liaison after volunteering for a semester–her job is to engage parents and the community to help transform the elementary school. The Lewis’ are avid basketball and soccer players with all 6 playing year round.
You can follow Dhati on Twitter @dhati.
The workshops and article below by Dhati have particularly benefited TCT pastors:
Missional Living | LegacyDisciple.org
Don’t Just Start a Church; Establish a Family: The Gospel Makes Us Family | SaturatetheWorld.com
How Should Christians Engage Restoration in Their Communities? | TheGospelCoalition.org
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TCT National Calls are hour-long video chats / webinars during which TCT features guest speakers who will share wisdom and focused content from their experience as pastors and planters.
Quickened to Witness | Amy Pope
When I began talking to my friend about the Gospel, Jesus changed her heart and impacted her life more than my mere message.
Have you ever been so ecstatic about the opportunity to baptize a dear friend who has come to faith in Christ Jesus? I recently baptized my friend and she stated, “I’m no longer a slave to sin!” Romans 6:11 tells us, “So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus." She now affirms her proper identity, dead to sin and alive in Him. But as the wife of a church planter and pastor, I know that many of us can attach our identity to the wrong things. For instance, have you ever been tempted to put your identity in the numbers in your church attendance? This can be a weekly, monthly, or annual struggle. If it is not this it can be any other ministry that comes with this rigorous Christ-centered work. Dear Friends, I want us all to remember our only boast is in Christ and His final and decisive work! He brings the people to the point of them realizing they need a faithful shepherd. We must regularly remind ourselves we are temporary shepherds, and if we are truly honest with ourselves, we know we fail in comparison to Christ.
My new believing friend came to our church, not because of anything I did or planned. She was working with a woman at a beauty salon who decided to start attending our church with her family. Striving to be a faithful witness with the few she had been given she invited her to come with her. This reminds me of how Jesus remained faithful to the Mission the Father gave Him to do with a few: Peter, James, and John. He didn't let the numbers of His followers dictate how successful He was as a shepherd. But rather He would lay down his life for them.
Isn’t our highest calling to treasure Jesus more than anything? Our Savior tells us when we are striving toward that end we will also fulfill the second greatest commandment, “you shall love your neighbor as yourself" (Lev 19:18). When we are tempted to trust in the newcomers for happiness, we must remember the Lord has given us a great way to impact the Kingdom for Christ by investing in the few. Some of those people will be unbelievers who walk in the church and simply hear a faithful message. Yet, He has chosen us all to empower the believers to reach these few with faithful discipleship.
When I began talking to my friend about the Gospel, Jesus changed her heart and impacted her life more than my mere message. Jesus used the faithful message she consistently heard from our Sunday Gatherings, our Refuge Community, and in my personal time with her to soften her heart of stone (Ezek 36:26-27). So remember when you have labored for long hours preparing your sermon on Sunday morning, the countless conversations you have had over coffee, the many tears you have to spend with others through prayer, or any other forms of faithful ministry, this is the kind of death Jesus called us to carry out today (Luke 9:23). You've died to serve your Lord, the Chief Shepherd (II Cor 5:14-15). He has entrusted us all with His sheep, and we are to tenderly and ruggedly die for them by laying down our lives for them as Christ did. Has Christ brought you near to Him to merely tolerate you? NO! He lived among us, faithfully obeyed the Father to the point of death (Phil 2:8), and saved us from Satan, sin, and death. Specifically to pastors, you have a great high calling to guard and, "shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you” (1 Pet 5:2).
Christ lived His whole life in obedience to the Father and for the sake of others, “and he died for all, that those who live no longer live for themselves but for him who for your sake died and was raised again" (II Cor. 5:15). Isn't this the symbol of baptism, the burial of death of a self-centered sinful lifestyle and instead living for Christ's glory? Dear brothers and sisters, there are continual deaths throughout this life that King Jesus has called us to. Renew your faith today by remembering Jesus Christ has set you free from the death and eternal separation from God the Father. Our standing with God has been restored by Jesus. It does not end there because He promised He would empower us by His Spirit to remind us this broken, betrayed body does not live for itself anymore. Faithfulness to the Word of God and intentional discipleship in your congregation may be the tools He uses to reach the nations. If He has used me, and many others, as an instrument of grace in my friend's life, He can use you too. No matter how big or small the number of those people, you have been chosen to proclaim the Gospel at this church, in this location, for His glory. Do not become weary for He has appointed His faithful few to fulfill His plans for His purposes. Frank Houghton wrote this helpful stanza in his song Facing a Task Unfinished:
We bear the torch that flaming
Fell from the hands of those
Who gave their lives proclaiming
That Jesus died and rose
Ours is the same commission
The same glad message ours
Fired by the same ambition
To Thee we yield our powers
We go to all the world
With kingdom hope unfurled
No other name has power to save
But Jesus Christ The Lord
May we all bear the torch as those who give our lives proclaiming that Jesus died and rose. We have all been called to go into all the world with a kingdom hope unfurled. Neither your name nor mine has the power to save; no, that only belongs to Jesus Christ our LORD.
Amy Pope
Amy Pope is a humble servant to King Jesus and TCT pastor's wife at Refuge City Church in Dayton, Ohio. Follow her on Instagram @amympope18
Post Traumatic Stress: 9 of 9
STEWARD all of my life for God’s glory
This seminar is one of nine sessions. Select additional sessions below
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Brad serves as the Pastor of Counseling at The Summit Church in Durham, NC. He also serves as Instructor of Biblical Counseling at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, a council member of the Biblical Counseling Coalition, and has authored several books including Do Ask, Do Tell, Let’s Talk: Why and How Christians Should Have Gay Friends and God’s Attributes: Rest for Life’s Struggles.
Watch all nine seminars at the author's website: http://bradhambrick.com The “Post-Traumatic Stress” seminar is also available there in podcast format.
Author: Brad Hambrick
Post Traumatic Stress: 8 of 9
PERSEVERE in the new life and identity to which God has called me
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Brad serves as the Pastor of Counseling at The Summit Church in Durham, NC. He also serves as Instructor of Biblical Counseling at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, a council member of the Biblical Counseling Coalition, and has authored several books including Do Ask, Do Tell, Let’s Talk: Why and How Christians Should Have Gay Friends and God’s Attributes: Rest for Life’s Struggles.
Watch all nine seminars at the author's website: http://bradhambrick.com The “Post-Traumatic Stress” seminar is also available there in podcast format.
Author: Brad Hambrick
Post Traumatic Stress: 7 of 9
IDENTIFY GOALS that allow me to combat the impact of my suffering
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Brad serves as the Pastor of Counseling at The Summit Church in Durham, NC. He also serves as Instructor of Biblical Counseling at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, a council member of the Biblical Counseling Coalition, and has authored several books including Do Ask, Do Tell, Let’s Talk: Why and How Christians Should Have Gay Friends and God’s Attributes: Rest for Life’s Struggles.
Watch all nine seminars at the author's website: http://bradhambrick.com The “Post-Traumatic Stress” seminar is also available there in podcast format.
Author: Brad Hambrick
Post Traumatic Stress: 6 of 9
LEARN MY GOSPEL STORY by which God gives meaning to my experience
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Brad serves as the Pastor of Counseling at The Summit Church in Durham, NC. He also serves as Instructor of Biblical Counseling at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, a council member of the Biblical Counseling Coalition, and has authored several books including Do Ask, Do Tell, Let’s Talk: Why and How Christians Should Have Gay Friends and God’s Attributes: Rest for Life’s Struggles.
Watch all nine seminars at the author's website: http://bradhambrick.com The “Post-Traumatic Stress” seminar is also available there in podcast format.
Author: Brad Hambrick
Post Traumatic Stress: 5 of 9
MOURN the wrongness of what happened and receive God’s comfort
This seminar is one of nine sessions. Select additional sessions below
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Brad serves as the Pastor of Counseling at The Summit Church in Durham, NC. He also serves as Instructor of Biblical Counseling at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, a council member of the Biblical Counseling Coalition, and has authored several books including Do Ask, Do Tell, Let’s Talk: Why and How Christians Should Have Gay Friends and God’s Attributes: Rest for Life’s Struggles.
Watch all nine seminars at the author's website: http://bradhambrick.com The “Post-Traumatic Stress” seminar is also available there in podcast format.
Author: Brad Hambrick
Post Traumatic Stress: 4 of 9
LEARN MY SUFFERING STORY which I used to make sense of my experience
This seminar is one of nine sessions. Select additional sessions below
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Brad serves as the Pastor of Counseling at The Summit Church in Durham, NC. He also serves as Instructor of Biblical Counseling at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, a council member of the Biblical Counseling Coalition, and has authored several books including Do Ask, Do Tell, Let’s Talk: Why and How Christians Should Have Gay Friends and God’s Attributes: Rest for Life’s Struggles.
Watch all nine seminars at the author's website: http://bradhambrick.com The “Post-Traumatic Stress” seminar is also available there in podcast format.
Author: Brad Hambrick
Post Traumatic Stress: 3 of 9
PUNDERSTAND the impact of my suffering
This seminar is one of nine sessions. Select additional sessions below
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9
Brad serves as the Pastor of Counseling at The Summit Church in Durham, NC. He also serves as Instructor of Biblical Counseling at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, a council member of the Biblical Counseling Coalition, and has authored several books including Do Ask, Do Tell, Let’s Talk: Why and How Christians Should Have Gay Friends and God’s Attributes: Rest for Life’s Struggles.
Watch all nine seminars at the author's website: http://bradhambrick.com The “Post-Traumatic Stress” seminar is also available there in podcast format.
Author: Brad Hambrick
Post Traumatic Stress: 2 of 9
ACKNOWLEDGE the specific history and realness of my suffering
This seminar is one of nine sessions. Select additional sessions below
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Brad serves as the Pastor of Counseling at The Summit Church in Durham, NC. He also serves as Instructor of Biblical Counseling at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, a council member of the Biblical Counseling Coalition, and has authored several books including Do Ask, Do Tell, Let’s Talk: Why and How Christians Should Have Gay Friends and God’s Attributes: Rest for Life’s Struggles.
Watch all nine seminars at the author's website: http://bradhambrick.com The “Post-Traumatic Stress” seminar is also available there in podcast format.
Author: Brad Hambrick