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Welcome to the West Michigan Confrence United Methodist Men's Website

If your church has a men's group we would like to hear from you and what your group is doing with your church and comunity, or if you have a project that you need help with or information about contact us at Editor@wmummen.org and we will put it on the web page. We would like also to compile a list of men's groups and a contact person so others in your comunity can contact your group.

Your Brother in Christ

John Huizing

Contacts

West Michigan Confrence United Methodist Men President@wmummen.org

General Commission on United Methodist Men
P.O. Box 340006, Nashville, TN 37203-0006
(615) 340-7145 or (866) 297-4312 FAX (615) 340-1770

Greetings, ladies and gentelmen

If it is possible, could you please include the following notice in your next e-newsletters? Albion, Grand Traverse, Heartland, Kalamazoo, and Lansing, could you please add me to your e-newsletter mailing lists...if you have those? Thanks. Mike Bremer, President WMCUMMen - brems1@att.net.

The men of the Northern Illinois Conference UMMen have initiated a nationwide effort to collect and ship hand tools to Haiti. By going to their web-site - www.nicumm.org - you can get ALL the information. This request is to EVERY church in the West Michigan Conference to participate. Hand tools (NO power tools) new OR used are to be collected during the month of March. The cost to ship is approximately 50 cents per pound so we are also requesting one dollar be donated with each tool to help defray the shipping expenses. The tools collected in each district should eventually (by the end of March) get to a central location in each District. (I would suggest the District offices!) On or about April 1, those tools will be picked up and taken to a warehouse in northern Ilinois for disbursement. Local churches are encouraged to collect the funds and write a single check to their respective District. The Districts will, in turn, write a single check to the Conference. Questions or concerns can be directed to Mike Bremer by phone - (269) 795-3075 or via e-mail - brems1@att.net We thank you for your support!

Peace,

Mike

Dear Brothers in Christ,

If you are a member of a UMC, you are a UMMan. Thank you! Did you know that you are a part of the largest organized group of Christian men on the planet? There is no group of individuals that has a greater Christian impact on humanity than us! Scary, isn’t it? We are responsible for leading/bringing to church over 90% of the families that attend. We feed more hungry people, answer more calls for prayer, flip more pancakes, nail more shingles, mow more grass, etc….in Christ’s name, than any other existing “organization”. You are awesome! Thank you.

“I prayed for faith and thought that some day it would come down and strike me like lightning. But faith didn’t seem to come. One day I read in Romans that “faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.” I had up to this time, closed my Bible and prayed for faith. Now I opened my Bible and began to study and faith has been growing ever since.”

-- D.L. Moody

Creating a Devotional Time

Are you just starting (or restarting) a devotional life? Get some tips on beginning and maintaining your daily connection with God in "How to Have a Daily Devotional Time" by Mary Lou

The Italian Patriot, Giuseppe Garibaldi, had an incredibly committed volunteer army. He would appeal for recruits in these terms:

“I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart and not with his lips only, follow me!”

Jesus invites you to discipleship. But He lets you know up front that it is a commitment that will cost you something. It’s not going to be easy. To paraphrase Garibaldi, “Let him who loves the Lord with his heart and not with his lips only, be Jesus’ disciple!” Via: Sermon Central

IF

Whenever our Lord talked about discipleship, He always prefaced it with an IF, never with an emphatic assertion "You must." Discipleship carries an option with it.

SOURCE: Oswald Chambers
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Without Discipleship

Christianity without discipleship is always
Christianity without Christ.

SOURCE: Dietrich Bonhoeffer