joanne guarnieri
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The Rabbit and the Elephant

..."Why Small Is the New Big for Today's Church"



Tony and Felicity Dale start their book with this signature story from its title -- the difference between rabbits and elephants. I don't want to spoil the story for you, so suffice it to say, in their words, "Something that is large and complex is hard to reproduce. Something that is small and simple multiplies easily."



The whole rest of their book is filled with the same kind of refreshingly simple and sound wisdom,… Continue

Posted on June 8, 2009 at 10:45am

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Some Thoughts On Samuel

A few years ago, for the first time in my born again life, I was troubled by a feeling of being disenfranchised from the church we were members of (and still are, by the way). So I began to pray about it, asking God what was the matter with me. He showed me some sin in my own life, which I've had to own up to, but He also showed me some fatal flaws in the system that our church is a part of.



As I "listened" to what God had to say, He opened my eyes to the fact that the whole… Continue

Posted on April 6, 2009 at 12:00pm — 10 Comments

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At 1:48pm on March 20, 2009, Pastor Raja SekharPastor Raja Sekhar said…
hello pray for my children home
At 8:47pm on March 20, 2009, Pastor Raja SekharPastor Raja Sekhar said…
Dear beloved Sister Joanne Guarnieri in Christ, Holy greetings to you in the wonderful name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I am glad to receive your wonderful encouraging letter and write this email and say that I and my congregation keep praying for you, your family and ministry that are going to help the many God's servants. Dear Sister Joann, I also call on you in the name of Jesus Christ to pray for me and my ministry that has taken place in tribal area here in S. India and kindly remember us in your love and compassion for this ministry. With great eagerness I look forward to your kind suport and generosity. Sending you the priestly blessing from the Bible; it is for you and for your whole house: May “The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD makes His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, And give you peace.”’ Numbers 6:24-26 this blessing of the almighty God may by 2009 on you and to your team members, every hour, each new day and week in this year... I have been serving the Lord in remote villages & Tribal areas and faithfully serving the Lord and no any organization behind us to encourage, only we have been looking unto Jesus who is our provider so we would like to work with you. Please introduce my ministry to your Church believers and visit our place and minister with us through your ministry. We are heartily inviting you to stand with us and to minister with us to encourage our people and pastors. We have Children home with 45 poor Orphans and have 50 co-pastors in our ministry so they are along with me to go and reach more jungle and tribal areas where Jesus not yet proclaimed. We all remembered your family & Team members in our prayers and my family, co-pastors and our Home Children are joins with me to convey our best wishes to you all. Thank you so much
Yours faithfully in His service Pastor P. Raja Sekhar
http://jcim2008.webs.com/
At 11:00pm on March 23, 2009, Pastor Raja SekharPastor Raja Sekhar said…
Hello Dear Sister Joanne, thank you so much for your kind prayers and blesisngs to my children ministry and kindly uplift our orphange with your financial support for feeding these poor ones. you are welcome to visit our ministry.
At 10:57pm on January 28, 2011, SHALOM ARADHANALAYA CHURCH INDIASHALOM ARADHANALAYA CHURCH INDIA said…
Prov 29:18 where [there is] no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy [is] he.
What is the purpose of our life? Why should i alive and doing hard work for everything?
These are the questions always in my mind when i was not in CHRIST BELIEVE. When i came in Christ with the powerful word of GOD, that time I realize there is purpose of my life; there are certain things which only i can do which were set specifically for me only.
In football team if we take out the GOAL, and ask to the players now play. What happen when players taking the football to the goal but if goal is not there? They became frustrated very soon.
Peoples are frustrated, hopeless; perish because they don’t have any goal for their life. They are doing lot of hard work but in result they found nothing. Rom 8:29For whom he did foreknow, .. conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Rom 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose..
Ask to the lord for the vision, purpose of our life and he answered and blesses us, Show us the specific work of him.
At 3:05pm on February 16, 2011, Ammah ChristyAmmah Christy said…
Hi, there. Do you belong to a group? I want to connect with you, with the hope that it will be of much spiritual benefit.
At 8:11pm on February 16, 2011, Ammah ChristyAmmah Christy said…
Hello Joanne, Thanks for your reply. Yes i noticed that you have not been on this site for a while and yes i am kind of new to the area.Moved to Maryland about 8months ago. But i am not new to simple church concept. I have been involved in forming several house churches in my previous location. So since your group disbanded what have you done about fellowship? Are you attending an institutional church for the meantime? Whats The Lord's leading for you.I am thinking of starting one soon, maybe we can see if we can do something together if you are feeling that way inclined. Ofcourse we will talk some more about our vision first. lets keep talking and praying?
At 4:17pm on February 17, 2011, Dave DeCarloDave DeCarlo said…

Hi Joanne, I would love to meet the Barrs. If they are open to you connecting us somehow by giving phone numbers [410-536-5377] or email [[email protected]] I would look forward to enjoying fellowship with them and learning how similar and how different we are. Regardless of that I always enjoy meeting the Lord's people.

Well we are a small group of about 20 people that have been meeting for about 18 years. Maybe the best way to describe us is we are a non-denominational evangelical church. When we first started meeting we were about 30/35 and grew a little but for the most part have been getting smaller over the last few years. We have always met in rented facilites for sundays because no one has a house big enough for us and even at 20 that is still true. We have met in homes during the week but since we started renting the place in Linthicum we gather there for most things.

We have all come from more institutional churces of one form or another but many of us have been in similar non-denominational groups before we started meeting in 92. There are probably some here who could never go back to that type of church and others who could and would.

I trust we are a more oganic gathering but the truth is only the Lord knows for sure. We don't have much by way of programs or orgnaization but rather are looking to the Lord to do in us and through us what we could never do ourselves. And they like me, to use your phrase, "have longed for more meaningful connections with other believers." Well that is not much of a description but it is the best I can do for now.

Hope to hear from you soon.

At 1:25pm on February 21, 2011, Ammah ChristyAmmah Christy said…

Hi Joanne , in addition to my long message sent to you. You may need to visit www.aboutaburningfire.com . It will give you a discription that most closely captures my vision, before i upload my website.

At 9:21pm on February 21, 2011, Ammah ChristyAmmah Christy said…
Well i found Rusty here only last week a connected with Him. something about him made me link to him. and we are in communication and when i went to his website i understood that it is The Lord,s doing. He seems to have begun to give expression to the same vision i have. As i tried to tell you in the message i emailed to you earlier. I wanted you to see that it is possible and that The Lord is already showing several in His Body the same vision for the church. You can link up with Rusty Wimberly. On my page he is a friend.

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