Get Involved at Glad Tidings Church
Learn more about how you can CONNECT, GROW, and SERVE
Assimilation Ministry
Our assimilation ministries involve all of our volunteer ministries including greeters, ushers, guest services, Volunteer Central, and altar workers. Our goal is to help transition our weekly guests into full-time members that are actively serving Christ. For more information, contact Pastor Paula Raley.
Children's Ministry
Our children’s ministry holds services every Sunday morning and evening for ages 4 to 12. The children are ministered to through a variety of visual teachings and teams designed to convey the truths of the gospel in a vibrant, challenging and memorable way. For more information, contact Pastor Darrell or Gwen Bourgeois.
Additional ministries:
Glad Tidings Preschool
For more information about our preschool, please visit GladTidingsPreschool.com
Mother's Day Out
Mother's Day Out is an outreach of Glad Tidings Church under the direction of Beverly Morgan. We are a Christian-based program created to help you in developing your child in relationship to God and others. At the same time, mothers are able to have time for themselves, whether they choose to be a stay-at-home mom, work, or attend school. Click here to visit their web page.
Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday 8:30am - 2:00pm
Ages: Infants to 4 year-olds
Christian Education
Our Christian education department is dedicated to helping further discipleship in God’s word. This includes Connection classes (Sunday school), which meets on Sunday mornings at 9:30, and Breakout Wednesday Small Groups, which meet at the church throughout the day on Wednesdays. For more information, contact Pastor Paula Raley.
Media Ministry
Our Media team here at Glad tidings is a focused group of staff and volunteers that assist with the different audio and visual aspects of church ministry. Whether it’s making sure sound and video elements are in place for services, creating multimedia presentations to help illustrate sermon
dynamics, or website and other communications, they are dedicated to excellence and serving the body of Christ. For more information, contact Pastor Cheri Derouen.
Men's Ministry
The men’s ministry at Glad Tidings meets routinely for fellowship, food, and learning how
to deal with issues regarding men and their needs. They also routinely work on projects as needed within the church. For more information, contact Pastor Perry or Tracy Morgan.
Overcomers Recovery
The Overcomers Recovery Support Program celebrated its 20th year in 2005. We have a successful history through weekly meetings and our 90-day recovery workbook, A Daily Choice, Overcoming Life-controlling Problems, by Charles and Sharon Burton. Overcomers is committed to provide you with friendship, prayer and acceptance, along with the educational and spiritual tools to help you overcome your life-controlling problems. You are asked to faithfully attend a minimum of 12 weekly meetings and complete one easy-to-understand daily lesson for 90 days. Meetings are open to adults who desire spiritual and emotional support while overcoming problems such as alcoholism, drug addiction, gambling, pornography and codependency issues.
Our support groups maintain a positive atmosphere of acceptance, practicality and encouragement. Observing the principle of confidentiality creates a safe environment for discussing difficult problems or disclosing painful emotional wounds. Your participation in weekly meetings and completion of the daily lessons will provide direction for your successful future. There is no fee for meetings. The only cost to you is $16.00 for your workbook, plus your total commitment to your own recovery.
The Overcomers Recovery Support Program is not a medical service, detoxification facility or professional counseling service. It is a support system of Christian friendship, education and behavior modification. We do not guarantee that people attending weekly meetings or completing the workbook, A Daily Choice, will recover in whole or in part from addictions or other life-controlling problems. It is understood that recovery from any addiction or life-controlling problem requires unyielding commitment and determination to reclaim your own sobriety and emotional stability. For more information please contact Patty Perry (pperry@gladtidingschurch.com).
Pastoral Care Ministry
Our Pastoral Care ministry is dedicated to meeting your needs. Whether that is through needed hospital visits, spiritual guidance, pre-marital counseling or funeral coordination, we want to help. For more information, contact Pastor Gary Evers.
Senior Adult Ministry
The focus of the senior adult ministry is meeting the needs of the senior citizens of our congregation, especially those hospitalized or home-bound. The group often takes short trips
to the surrounding areas and meets once a month for food and fellowship.
For more information, contact Pastor Gary Evers.
Women's Ministry
Our women’s ministry is dedicated to meeting the needs of every woman at Glad Tidings. They gather for fellowship meetings and special events catering to women and their interests. For more information, contact Patty Perry.
MOPS
MOPS stands for "Mothers of Preschoolers" - but don't let that confuse you. MOPS is about meeting the needs of every mom of a child from conception through kindergarten with local groups of moms just like you. Whether you're urban, suburban, rural, stay-at-home, working, teen, adoptive, special-needs, single or married, MOPS is for you!
Being moms is what brings us together and allows us to build a community, and a MOPS group allows you to meet and build friendships with moms in your local community. The early years of being a mom are just as foundational to you as they are to your baby, and those years are filled with unique needs that other moms instinctively understand.
The goal of our Glad Tidings MOPS group is to encourage and strengthen mothers of preschoolers in our area because better moms make a better world! Our meetings are held on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of the month starting in September. We meet from 9:30-11:30 in the Kids Building at Glad Tidings Church. Child Care is provided. Our MOPS coordinator is Dina Peters. Glad Tidings MOPS Facebook Group.
2012 Meeting Dates:
October 12 & 26
November 9
December 14
January 11 & 25
February 8 & 22
March 8 & 22
April 12 & 26
May 10
Worship Ministry
The worship ministry consists of the sanctuary choir, orchestra, praise team and drama team. These groups rehearse and minister weekly in services, in conjunction with numerous
solo and small ensemble presentations. Dramatic musical productions also take place throughout the year, and are open to all.
For more information, contact Pastor Ryan Barnett.
Youth Ministry
The whole purpose behind what we do in Community Student Ministries is to simply make disciples of Christ that will make other disciples of Christ. We do this by providing a place where students, grades 6-12, can CONNECT to God and friends, GROW in a relationship with God, and begin to SERVE their campus, church, and community.
We meet every Wednesday night for youth service @ 7pm on the corner of Texas and College Street so come check us out. - Pastor James Reine
