Spirit and Truth Ministries
Scrapbook
This web page is a photographic history of Spirit and Truth Ministries.
You can click on any of the pictures to see an enlargement (the large
picture is displayed in a separate window). The pictures are
organized by year. Before each group of pictures, David Spakes tells
about the item or event.
[1991]
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[All Years]
Bible Study at SNAP Fitness, Knoxville, TN
"The Lord opened a door for Spirit and Truth Ministries to
conduct a summertime Bible study in a back room of the SNAP Fitness
gym in Knoxville, Tennessee. Weekly meetings were held from Thursday,
May 20 until Thursday, Auguest 26. The start of the Bible study
was announced in two local newspapers, on a printed flyer (shown below),
and through facebook.
The Bible study group was called 'Casting Off Weights'.
This choice was influenced by the Bible passage in
Hebrews, chapter 12, verses 1 and 2.
This choice was also influenced by my feeling that the group would
provide accountability to the members for sticking to their
individual health and fitness plans.
I created a Bible reading plan so all of the
members would read the same passages through the week and discuss them
during the group meetings.
The facebook badge below is a link to the Casting Off Weights
group page on the Facebook site (if the group were to become active
again, the badge will show upcoming events). The first picture shows
the front of SNAP Fitness where we held the Bible study. After that
is the flyer made to advertise the Bible study.
Next, you can see a copy of the calednar pages that attendees received
every week showing the Bible scriptures to read for the following week
with space provided for taking notes and keeping a log of diet and
exercise progress. After this, you can see a snapshot of the Facebook
page as it appeared on the first week of the study as well as after the
last meeting. The last five pictures below were taken at the final
meeting. Ruby Lea and Bill made the trip from Kingston, Tennessee to
be present for the last meeting."
Casting Off Weights
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"Almost one year to the day since our previous visit, we returned to
Rocky Branch Independent Holiness Church of God in Walland, Tennessee
to participate in their second Friday night singing service on July 9, 2010.
Ruby, Bill, Sheila, and I came representing the Spirit and Truth Singers.
We were joined by Heidi Parunak, a dear friend we knew from two churches
we had attended together in the past. I had recently been reuninted with
Heidi through the Bible study at SNAP Fitness (above). Doug and Marinda
have been coming to many of this church's singing services since I
introduced them to the pastor and his wife, Robert and Mary Jennings,
who are shown below in the last picture. All seven of us sang together
on the last song, a 1950s-style song called 'Got a Reason'."
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