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Teaching & Sharing
Centers
a Michigan non-profit
IRS approved 501c3 corporation
What We Do
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The most honest and simplest answer to the question of
what we do is "whatever God asks us to do." There is no shortage of
possibility in Scripture for Christian endeavor. We are here to
teach and to share. The Nature-Spirit-Expression theme of the T&SC
provides a broad arena in which to function. From environmental and earthkeeping ministries, through spiritual growth and religious avenues,
to the arts and other creative expressions of God gifts to each of us, our
primary objective is helping individuals grow into an actively closer
relationship with their Creator. This, in turn, helps them to
blossom fully into what God intended them to be, when He put together the
unique combination of skills, likes, dislikes, personality and a myriad of
other pieces in each person's puzzle. Such a relationship will
necessarily also impact the ways we interact with one another and the rest
of creation summed up in our mission statement. All the threads are
intertwined - the circle is complete. |
Some of what we teach, participate
in, and provide . . .
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Why free? Why is so much of what we do and provide offered for free? In its first ten years, the Teaching & Sharing Center [of Grand Ledge] was owned and operated by william, the poet and photographer through whom God set it all up. This quote is his philosophy, a tradition which we have kept. "I do not require, nor even ask, for a fee. Indeed, the true value of what is received here is beyond anybody’s ability to pay. Our society has placed the greatest monetary values on mere trinkets, while overlooking the most precious gold found in wisdom and love, or in the flawless diamond of harmonious living." We believe the kind of support a person provides to the T&SC is an indication of how well they perceive these truths. It also acknowledges, of course, how well they believe, or feel, that we reflect these truths. So it remains, that most of what we do and offer, as much as is possible, is done without a charge attached to it. But, that is not because it is without value. On the contrary, the real value to you just might be incalculable. Through the voluntary sharing of resources, each person exhibits their understanding of this, and in so doing – each is blessed. "How does God’s love abide in anyone who
has the world’s goods 1 John 3:17 |
