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It does feel like home, it has been and continues to be warm and welcoming.
nice place to go great people.
- Got a free night? Join us for a night of worship at Chapel Nights.
A holy, annointed, worshipful space, to sing your hearts out in loud worship to God. 6:30-8pm: Evergreen Church - Bloomington
Chapel Nights
Praise & Worship
Wednesday, July 30, 6:30-8:00 PM, Auditorium. The Young Adult Ministry
(FKA “20-Somethings”) is hosting an evening of worship where all ages
are invited to attend. “Chapel Nig... See More - Recent Posts by Others on Evergreen Church - BloomingtonSee All
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you taken a step of faith this summer? Write it on a brick and place it
on our wall in the auditorium. Have you taken two steps of faith? Write
the second step on a second brick. In other words, make a brick for
every step of faith you take this summer! Let's fill the wall! - LikesSee All
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the example of Jehoshaphat! He placed the singers ahead of the army,
singing to the Lord and praising Him for His holy splendor. At the
moment they began to sing and give praise, the Lord brought about a
mighty victory. Worship comes before victory.
Want more victory in your life? Then come to "Chapel Nights" tomorrow evening.
Wednesday, July 30, 6:30-8:00 PM, Auditorium. The Young Adul... See More - City Serve day! Saturday, August 23
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Project Leaders:We need project leaders who are willing to go to one training event, then lead a team on CityServe Day.
Team members: to serve at Individual Homes, Parks, Schools,... See More
Evergreen Church - Bloomington changed their cover photo.
Evergreen Church - Bloomington shared a link.
We're
still looking for a few more project managers for CityServe Day on
Saturday, August 23rd. Lead a small team of volunteers as we serve
Bloomington schools, parks and neighbors. Email info@cityserve.me to
learn more.- Hey
Servers, I need some help for 3 hours on Friday morning (tomorrow) 9:15
to noon). A family had a townhouse fire and needs some help sifting
through remains for salvageable goods. If you can help muck through
smoke infested charred remains of a town home, please message me. I will
send you the address. I need 4-5 more people. - Growth Group Leader Training!
Thursday, July 31, 6:30-9:30 PM or Saturday August 2, 9:00-12 noon,
Room 200. “Our (church) body has many parts, and God has put each part
just where He wants it.” Has God designed YOU to lead? If so, you should
consider becoming a GG leader at Evergreen! We invite current
apprentices & all interested in this challenging & rewarding
role. We'll equip you to lead others! Sign up for 1 of these 2 identical
training sessions by contacting the office at 952-895-1773 or
info@evergreenbloomington.com.Questions? Call Jeff at 612-250-3539. - "I tell you whenever a man stands by God, God will stand by him." --D.L. Moody
"Those who honor Me I will honor." -1 Samuel 2:30 - Youth Summer Stuff
Outlet hang times
Wednesdays, July 23 & August 27, 6:30-8:30 PM,
Evergreen-Bloomington Northhall and Grounds. Students entering 6th grade
through current 8th graders, join us this summer for a night of
sports, games, and desserts. Pick up a Flyer on the Info Board or
dowload three HERE and bring your friends!
Crossings summer events
Open to all current high school students a... See More - Here's
a report from Kendra Hanson on her Step of Faith/ and ReviveTwinCities:
"What a blast! With hosting a 5-Day Club during the mornings, we were
unsure of how "useful" we would be during the evenings, but we had 2
encounters around dinner time and after the music with locals that came
onto the field for the free dinner. Please, please get the word out and
pass along YouTube videos of Revive Twin Cities; I really believe that
this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience here. It was such a beautiful
scene of Christ's Body; unified, working together for kingdom purposes,
and awesome testimonies of God's provision and faith stories. Heaven is
rejoicing!" Evergreen Church - Bloomington shared a link.
What
time is it? Time for Evergreen-Bloomington's Sunday services: 9:15 and
11:15: come join us at our building, or watched the streamed service
online. Jeff Groen will be sharing his God-story on what God did in his
heart/ life, during his sabbatical. See you there!
http://www.evergreenbloomington.com/video_liveEvergreen Church - Bloomington changed their cover photo.
A summer-long message series!
This summer will be free-flowing at Evergreen! Join us for one-shot
messages from our stable of pastors, teaching their best and brightest
thoughts. Just like the weather, you won’t know what to expect next!
For 4 weeks in August, we’re swapping speaking pastors at the weekend
services. You’ll get to hear tried and true messages from some of the
pastors from our other locations. This is just one benefit of being one
church with many locations!
8/1 & 3: Doug Patterson | Evergreen– New Hope | The Art of Neighboring
8/8 & 10: Mark Bowen | Evergreen-Lakeville | Mustard Seed Faith, Mulberry Tree God
8/15 & 17: Andy Gray | The Urban Refuge | Getting Your Spiritual Work Out
8/22 & 24: Mark Darling | The Rock | TBD
- "Chapel Nights"
An evening of praise & worship.
Wednesday, July 30, 6:30-8:00 PM, Auditorium. The Young Adult Ministry
is hosting an evening of worship where all ages are invited to attend.
“Chapel Nights” occurs when there is a 5th Wednesday in the month (The
next on is October 29). During the ministry season, students are
encouraged to attend as part of their regular Youth Group meeting.
Everyone is invited to come and experience a powerful and intimate night
of worship! Questions? Contact Amy Dybing at 715-222-9227 - What
step of faith, big or little, have you taken this summer? Please
respond. Brent would like to share a few examples during the
announcements this weekend. - We
all desire harmony in the church. Harmony occurs when two people share
what they are honestly thinking and then persevere in humility until
they come to a unity of mind. Therefore, as pastors, we entreat to you
to realize that you have the option to appeal our decisions to other
pastors of Evergreen, Bloomington. As in healthy marriages, mature
people work through issues rather than "stuff their feelings." - "When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken, or cease to be honest."--Unknown
"Thou dost desire truth in the innermost being..." --Psalm 51:6 - Tweet by Tim Keller Wisdom @DailyKeller complements what Tim Weber spoke on at Evergreen this past weekend.
"Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus." - For
June, Evergreen-Bloomington's Kids Against Hunger received $2,590.25.
For the year, $15,570.32 has been received from 33 donors.
Geohistory is life- life of the earth and nature's God. The fragments of the earth became the moon some say. I really dont know. JUST WHAT IS PROVEABLE. THIS IS GEOHISTORY
come to this Artwalk each month
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Jax Beach Art Walk celebrates first anniversary
Better Jacksonville Beach adds monthly car cruise to lineup
Posted: August 8, 2014 - 1:40pm
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A collection of works displayed by Amy Michelle Gregory of AMEJ Art during last month's Jax Beach Art Walk.
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Jon McGowan, president of Better Jacksonville Beach, organized and oversees the Jax Beach Art Walk.
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Artists Dino Baron and Jo Marie Carter from the L'Arche Rainbow Workshop show off their designs during the Jax Beach Art Walk.
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Amy Michelle Gregory of AMEJ Art paints a table during the Jax Beach Art Walk in July.
By Michele Gillis
As families and couples stroll by storefronts in downtown Jacksonville Beach, artist Amy Michelle Gregory puts the finishing touches on her latest piece of art.
“I like to paint live,” said Gregory of AMEJ Custom Artwork, one of approximately 70 artists featured in the Jax Beach Art Walk. “I love it. Sometimes it gets a little windy out here while painting, but I really enjoy creating art in front of the people walking by.”
Jacksonville Beach’s Art Walk celebrates its first anniversary this month. Held the second Tuesday of each month from 5-9 p.m., the event is staged along First Street between Beach Boulevard and Fifth Avenue North.
Gregory said the Art Walk is popular with both tourists and locals, allowing her an opportunity for marketing and networking while she paints. The free event is also free for the artists who participate; the only requirement is that all of the goods have to be handmade and the artists need to provide their display tables. The event, founded in August 2013 by Better Jacksonville Beach in an effort to bring families back to the downtown district, typically draws 500 to 1,000 people.
“We needed more family-friendly events at the beach,” said Jon McGowan, president of Better Jacksonville Beach and owner of McGowan Firearms in Atlantic Beach. “The real base of the program is the Art Walk, and last month we started a Classic Car Cruise.”
After a highly publicized fight in Jacksonville Beach on Memorial Day 2013, McGowan said he formed the nonprofit Better Jacksonville Beach by reaching out to business owners in the downtown area.
BJB now has five business owners on its board and about 20 other local business owners as members of the association.
“We wanted to get the business owners all together to work together to improve the area,” he said.
McGowan said he knew of the success of Art Walks in neighboring communities, and started by doing his homework, reaching out to organizers of other area art events and asking questions.
“It’s not just about the art, it’s about building the community and getting families to feel like they can come back down here again,” said McGowan. “They can bring their family and walk around, get reintroduced to the area and get familiar with all the neat restaurants.”
McGowan chose a Tuesday night to hold the walk because he believed the area is already overwhelmed on the weekends.
“We were trying to get families down here, and the best way is to start with a clean palate,” he said. “We started on a Tuesday night when there is no one in Jacksonville Beach.”
McGowan said his hope was that families would then start coming out other nights of the week and eventually rowdier crowds would stay away as families come back in.
“Families have abandoned it,” he said. “They felt it wasn’t theirs. It was just a place where college kids came to get drunk and party. If [families] went out to dinner, they’d go along Third Street or to Atlantic Beach. We have to let them know that this is their downtown again.”
McGowan said he didn’t struggle getting the event off the ground once word got out, noting that the City of Jacksonville Beach was helpful in the process. All he needed was a permit and insurance, which was paid for by the businesses involved in BJB.
“I threw the first one together in about three weeks and had 45 artists,” he said.
Delcher Carter of Delcher’s Leather, which specializes in customer leatherwork in Neptune Beach, has been a part of the Art Walk since its inception.
“I’ve been here for nine years, and I think it’s really great for the community,” Delcher said.
Print and floral artist and Jacksonville Beach resident Tiffany Turner has been selling her hand-painted cards, prints and framed art in the Art Walk since the event’s beginning. She said she enjoys the sense of community that the local artists help create.
“The whole idea of the Art Walk is to let people know this is not a bad place; it’s a wonderful place,” said Turner. “That’s one of the reasons the Art Walk is great because more and more people are coming, including families with kids.”
Capitalizing on the weekday family-friendly event, Better Jacksonville Beach introduced a Classic Car Cruise every third Tuesday of the month from 6 to 8:30 p.m. More than 40 cars owners took part in the first event two months ago, but there were visibility and organizational problems that needed tweaking. The City of Jacksonville Beach has since partnered with BJB to improve the event. Now, about 30 vehicles are selected to park in Latham Plaza and the Sea Walk Pavilion. Other cruisers are encouraged to start parking in the northwest corner of the city parking lot between Latham Plaza and Sneakers. At 8:30 p.m., participants are joined by attendees for an organized cruise along First Street.
“... It is becoming a fixture in the community,” McGowan said. “I hope over the next year we’ll see more people start to show up, and we can continue to help make families feel the downtown is their area.”
Those interested in the Art Walk or the Classic Car Cruise can contact McGowan at info@betterjaxbeach.com.
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Faces of the Forest
Meet Jennifer H. Barnhart
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - 15:30
Jennifer Heisey Barnhart has always loved the outdoors so it is only logical that all of her jobs have been working outdoors. Jennifer currently works for the Andrew Pickens Ranger District on the Sumter National Forest in South Carolina. She is a fairly new employee of four years for the U.S. Forest Service, but the experience she brings to her natural resources specialist job in recreation is many years strong.
I started working for state parks in Pennsylvania at a young age and that’s where I learned to appreciate the outdoors. I was involved in my high school’s environmental club competing in envirothons. In college, I decided to pursue a bachelor’s degree in natural resources recreation with a minor in forestry and then went on for a master’s degree in natural resources management for recreation. I also continued to work while pursuing both degrees.
After graduate school, I took a job with the Green Mountain Club
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, a non-profit partner with the Green Mountain National Forest in Vermont, as a backcountry caretaker. I was living in the woods solo for four months out of the year. I would be out for five days straight, only to come out for 48 hours and then go back. I was performing trail maintenance and educating hikers on Leave No TraceExternal Links icon
when they would come through on the Long Trail which is co-aligned with the Appalachian Trail. That was the only interaction I had with the outside world until I went out to restock on food and shower. It is one of my favorite jobs ever.I’ve also worked for the Appalachian Mountain Club as an outdoor recreation planner and with Virginia State Parks as a district resource specialist. The U.S. Forest Service hired me as a full-time permanent employee on the Calcasieu Ranger District as their natural resources specialist for recreation. I had been applying for years and years because it was my ultimate goal to get in with the Forest Service. I am really excited to be working for the agency and very thankful to the Calcasieu Ranger District who gave me my start. I recently took the same position with the Andrew Pickens Ranger District on the Sumter National Forest in South Carolina, which includes the management of the Chattooga Wild and Scenic River and the Ellicott Rock Wilderness.
What or who has had the greatest influence on your life?
I wouldn’t say one person, but instead will focus on what gave me the drive to work hard. I came from a blue-collar family and was the first person in my family to go to college. I was very driven to get a degree and somehow I ended up getting my master’s degree – which was awesome. I was determined to keep working hard and moving up, always trying to set goals and be able to accomplish them. So, I think my biggest influence is coming from a hard working blue-collar family.
As a child, did you know what you wanted to be when you grew up?
I started working as a teenager for Pennsylvania State Parks. I knew I was into the environment, enjoyed the outdoors and always wanted to help protect it. Once I figured out I could go to school and get a degree in forestry, wildlife or recreation, I finally narrowed it down to natural resources recreation. So yes, I knew early where I was headed.
I based my answer on where I grew up which was close to the Appalachian Trail, surrounded by state forests and state parks, not national forests. But I had an upbringing in a beautiful area and that really influenced me.
If you could be or do anything else, what would it be? I would run a non-profit organization related to promoting outdoor recreation amongst youth and families.
Since you’ve only been working on a forest for about four years, have you had any opportunity to tackle a big project dealing with a recreation area?
There are all kinds of major repairs and daily crises. We did have a major event happen just before Thanksgiving several years ago that I was involved in. Our Louisiana campgrounds are very popular in the state because our developed campgrounds have water and electric. We generally fill our 41 sites completely each year at Thanksgiving. It was close to the end of the day when the water pump completely shut down. I had to immediately figure out who I could get before a holiday to repair or put in a new pump. I was desperate, but I was able to call our local town’s water system and they gave me a contact.
Thankfully, a repair person was able to come out on short notice and actually fix the pump. I had to get approvals on very short notice and we all worked on Thanksgiving trying to repair the site for campers to have water to cook their turkeys. That was a big deal for me, being fairly new in the agency, trying to communicate with the campground hosts and campers while keeping them calm and informed of all of the developments.
Another big accomplishment was increasing the volunteer program on the Calcasieu District. I was able to partner with a lot of different organizations such as the Kisatchie Bicycle Club and our mountain biking community to do trail work for us. The mountain bikers re-blazed an entire tail system. The trail system was re-marked in the hopes of becoming more user-friendly. I also co-coordinated National Get Outdoors Day in June 2013. We were able to have local organizations donate their time and materials to lead mountain bike rides, yoga demonstrations, kayaking, and hikes to an awesome eagles’ nest. Everything was free for the community to come and enjoy.
If you could meet and greet some famous people in history, who would they be?
I guess one person would be John Muir. I learned about him in my conservation classes and he seemed interesting, traveling all over the country trying to preserve different natural public lands that we have today. In late 2013, Gifford Pinchot’s home, Grey Towers celebrated its 50th anniversary. Both Muir and Pinchot were great conservationists in the Roosevelt era.
Another person folks may not know is “Molly Pitcher” from Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She was the first woman to set foot on the battle ground in the Revolutionary War. She would give pitchers of water to the men and when one of the men went down, she actually took over the cannon. She was very interesting and I learned about her when I was in the fourth or fifth grade. She is actually buried in my hometown. Revolutionary War buffs might have heard of her.
Do you have any hobbies?
I’m super into outdoor recreation. I’m a mountain biker, runner, cyclist and a swimmer. In the past two years, I’ve competed in triathlons. In the summer of 2012, I competed in my first Ironman competition at Lake Placid up in the Adirondacks. It took me about 14 hours to complete the whole race – a mere 140.6 miles! I was actually able to train on the Calcasieu Ranger District’s trails in the winter and on the roads around the Kisatchie National Forest in the summer. It’s a great hobby for me, but also beneficial to work on the forest, be outdoors and to be able to easily do that right outside your office.
What do you like about working for the Forest Service?
I love that I’m able to do what I’m obviously passionate about in my personal life: being outdoors and loving recreation, having access to public land and being able to be a manager in that area. I’m happy that I can make positive contributions to the community by making sure the recreation areas and trails are managed to meet high standards and tax payers can directly see and experience these benefits.
I say this to my employees because a lot of them don’t realize that their shoulders are holding up the weight of the public’s image of the national forests. Recreation areas and trails are what the public directly experience regularly and that reflects back on our image. The public doesn’t necessarily directly see the positives of what’s going on in the timber, wildlife and fire programs. So we’re the ones holding it on our shoulders to make sure that the public views what the Forest Service does as beneficial and important.
Faces of the Forest
Meet Jennifer H. Barnhart
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - 15:30
Jennifer Heisey Barnhart has always loved the outdoors so it is only logical that all of her jobs have been working outdoors. Jennifer currently works for the Andrew Pickens Ranger District on the Sumter National Forest in South Carolina. She is a fairly new employee of four years for the U.S. Forest Service, but the experience she brings to her natural resources specialist job in recreation is many years strong.
I started working for state parks in Pennsylvania at a young age and that’s where I learned to appreciate the outdoors. I was involved in my high school’s environmental club competing in envirothons. In college, I decided to pursue a bachelor’s degree in natural resources recreation with a minor in forestry and then went on for a master’s degree in natural resources management for recreation. I also continued to work while pursuing both degrees.
After graduate school, I took a job with the Green Mountain Club
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, a non-profit partner with the Green Mountain National Forest in Vermont, as a backcountry caretaker. I was living in the woods solo for four months out of the year. I would be out for five days straight, only to come out for 48 hours and then go back. I was performing trail maintenance and educating hikers on Leave No TraceExternal Links icon
when they would come through on the Long Trail which is co-aligned with the Appalachian Trail. That was the only interaction I had with the outside world until I went out to restock on food and shower. It is one of my favorite jobs ever.I’ve also worked for the Appalachian Mountain Club as an outdoor recreation planner and with Virginia State Parks as a district resource specialist. The U.S. Forest Service hired me as a full-time permanent employee on the Calcasieu Ranger District as their natural resources specialist for recreation. I had been applying for years and years because it was my ultimate goal to get in with the Forest Service. I am really excited to be working for the agency and very thankful to the Calcasieu Ranger District who gave me my start. I recently took the same position with the Andrew Pickens Ranger District on the Sumter National Forest in South Carolina, which includes the management of the Chattooga Wild and Scenic River and the Ellicott Rock Wilderness.
What or who has had the greatest influence on your life?
I wouldn’t say one person, but instead will focus on what gave me the drive to work hard. I came from a blue-collar family and was the first person in my family to go to college. I was very driven to get a degree and somehow I ended up getting my master’s degree – which was awesome. I was determined to keep working hard and moving up, always trying to set goals and be able to accomplish them. So, I think my biggest influence is coming from a hard working blue-collar family.
As a child, did you know what you wanted to be when you grew up?
I started working as a teenager for Pennsylvania State Parks. I knew I was into the environment, enjoyed the outdoors and always wanted to help protect it. Once I figured out I could go to school and get a degree in forestry, wildlife or recreation, I finally narrowed it down to natural resources recreation. So yes, I knew early where I was headed.
I based my answer on where I grew up which was close to the Appalachian Trail, surrounded by state forests and state parks, not national forests. But I had an upbringing in a beautiful area and that really influenced me.
If you could be or do anything else, what would it be? I would run a non-profit organization related to promoting outdoor recreation amongst youth and families.
Since you’ve only been working on a forest for about four years, have you had any opportunity to tackle a big project dealing with a recreation area?
There are all kinds of major repairs and daily crises. We did have a major event happen just before Thanksgiving several years ago that I was involved in. Our Louisiana campgrounds are very popular in the state because our developed campgrounds have water and electric. We generally fill our 41 sites completely each year at Thanksgiving. It was close to the end of the day when the water pump completely shut down. I had to immediately figure out who I could get before a holiday to repair or put in a new pump. I was desperate, but I was able to call our local town’s water system and they gave me a contact.
Thankfully, a repair person was able to come out on short notice and actually fix the pump. I had to get approvals on very short notice and we all worked on Thanksgiving trying to repair the site for campers to have water to cook their turkeys. That was a big deal for me, being fairly new in the agency, trying to communicate with the campground hosts and campers while keeping them calm and informed of all of the developments.
Another big accomplishment was increasing the volunteer program on the Calcasieu District. I was able to partner with a lot of different organizations such as the Kisatchie Bicycle Club and our mountain biking community to do trail work for us. The mountain bikers re-blazed an entire tail system. The trail system was re-marked in the hopes of becoming more user-friendly. I also co-coordinated National Get Outdoors Day in June 2013. We were able to have local organizations donate their time and materials to lead mountain bike rides, yoga demonstrations, kayaking, and hikes to an awesome eagles’ nest. Everything was free for the community to come and enjoy.
If you could meet and greet some famous people in history, who would they be?
I guess one person would be John Muir. I learned about him in my conservation classes and he seemed interesting, traveling all over the country trying to preserve different natural public lands that we have today. In late 2013, Gifford Pinchot’s home, Grey Towers celebrated its 50th anniversary. Both Muir and Pinchot were great conservationists in the Roosevelt era.
Another person folks may not know is “Molly Pitcher” from Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She was the first woman to set foot on the battle ground in the Revolutionary War. She would give pitchers of water to the men and when one of the men went down, she actually took over the cannon. She was very interesting and I learned about her when I was in the fourth or fifth grade. She is actually buried in my hometown. Revolutionary War buffs might have heard of her.
Do you have any hobbies?
I’m super into outdoor recreation. I’m a mountain biker, runner, cyclist and a swimmer. In the past two years, I’ve competed in triathlons. In the summer of 2012, I competed in my first Ironman competition at Lake Placid up in the Adirondacks. It took me about 14 hours to complete the whole race – a mere 140.6 miles! I was actually able to train on the Calcasieu Ranger District’s trails in the winter and on the roads around the Kisatchie National Forest in the summer. It’s a great hobby for me, but also beneficial to work on the forest, be outdoors and to be able to easily do that right outside your office.
What do you like about working for the Forest Service?
I love that I’m able to do what I’m obviously passionate about in my personal life: being outdoors and loving recreation, having access to public land and being able to be a manager in that area. I’m happy that I can make positive contributions to the community by making sure the recreation areas and trails are managed to meet high standards and tax payers can directly see and experience these benefits.
I say this to my employees because a lot of them don’t realize that their shoulders are holding up the weight of the public’s image of the national forests. Recreation areas and trails are what the public directly experience regularly and that reflects back on our image. The public doesn’t necessarily directly see the positives of what’s going on in the timber, wildlife and fire programs. So we’re the ones holding it on our shoulders to make sure that the public views what the Forest Service does as beneficial and important.
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