If you are tired of the usual small group study at church, here is a new approach to small groups and accountability groups. I am in the process of starting a TiE group at our church and will try to share more as it gets underway.

Three is Enough
http://www.3isenough.org/

God’s purpose for us is that we become his cooperative friends and serve others in our everyday lives.

Three is Enough (TiE) provides an imagination and structure for prayerfully paying attention to the Spirit, the people, and the events of our life.

TiE is a simple way to practice following God in the way of Jesus. The focus is on God, others and our own personal spiritual transformation.

Three is Enough is three friends who decide to pray, study and serve together – three nurses, three bankers, three cops, or three firemen.

Functioning in natural places of community – the workplace, school, or coffee shop, Three Is Enough Groups go on a Journey Inward of spiritual transformation and a Journey Outward of serving others.

In my continuing effort to introduce you to some of my friends, I wanted to take this time to introduce you to my cousin, Allan Hall.  He is best known as the tenor on the ivory keys from the critically-acclaimed, Dove Award-winning Curb vocal group Selah.  Over the past nine years, he has quietly etched his way into hearts of Christian music lovers.  In 2004, Allan released his solo CD entitled House of a Thousand Dreams.  This CD showcases Allan’s talents as a vocalist and musician, and is reminiscent of the music he grew up listening to.

In conjunction with my earlier posting, I came across an article on LifeWay’s web site entitled, With Friends Like These ….  The article talks about the types of friends we need to round out our circle of friends.  At work, at church, and in life, we all need friends; and we all need to be a friend. Which type of friend are you?

I thing I hope to do occasionally in this blog is to introduce some of my friends.  I’ve discovered that the older I get, the more important it is to have true friends.  The kind of friends you can depend on, lean on, and confide in.  One of those friends is Wade Tipton.  He and his wife Joy are very good friends my wife and I attend church with at Dixie Lee.

Wade and Joy are owners of Gallery Portraits here in Knoxville.  Wade is a very creative and talented professional photographer and Joy is a creatively gifted interior designer.  For more information about Gallery Portraits or Wade and Joy’s work, check out their web site at http://www.galleryportraitsstudio.com/.