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Bible study leader teaches members to ‘make space’ for God

Bible study leader teaches members to ‘make space’ for God
By Kitty Carpenter | June 28, 2010 {1190}

LAKELAND — God wants people to listen for his word and be ready to do his work — a difficult task for many, given the busyness of people’s lives.

Pastor Juanita Teaches Bible Study

The Rev. Juanita Rasmus acknowledged that dilemma while speaking with laity and clergy during her early morning Bible studies June 11 and 12 at the 2010 Florida Annual Conference Event. She also gave them advice on how to achieve that goal.

Rasmus is a certified spiritual director, national speaker, author and a recent cancer survivor. She is currently writing a book that chronicles her experiences suffering from a major depressive episode in 1999.

She is also co-pastor at St. John’s Downtown United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas, a daughter church of the 14,000-member Windsor Village United Methodist Church.

When she and her husband, the Rev. Rudy Rasmus, were appointed to the church in 1992, it had fewer than 10 members. The church would close if they could not turn it around.

Today, the church has 9,000 members and is one of the most diverse congregations in the nation. It and Bread of Life Inc., an outreach ministry co-founded by Rasmus, provides Houston’s less fortunate residents with education, counseling, housing and HIV/AIDS testing, among other services. Bread of Life also provides 7,000 hot meals to the homeless each month and distributes 9 tons of food to the hungry each week. .....read more!