Welcome to Forbush Friends Meeting*. Every family has their own special recipes for this time of year. Below you find our recipe for being a community of faith in Christ. Our ingredients are…
Start with a need to know Jesus Christ, then mix with a group of seekers and believers who are seeking the same purpose. Add a healthy dose of lively biblical preaching and some heartfelt music and worship. Put in a life-changing Awana Children’s Ministry, an incredible Youth Outreach (called FM 180), an active senior ministry, and a Sunday School that teaches the Bible in a practical and transforming style. Include a rich family tradition where you can use the talent God has given you to make a difference. Add a pinch of Women’s ministry, fit for Faith, Aim High (Our Men's Ministry), and family fun fellowship of all kinds every week. Finally immerse it all in the presence of God's Holy Spirit and you get…Forbush Friends Meeting! There is one missing ingredient…
We need you!
Forbush Friends is a family focused and mission-minded community of faith where you can grow closer to Christ. These are exciting times at Forbush Friends. Our worship attendance is growing dramatically and every week new families are becoming involved in existing ministries and starting new ones. Our new Family Life Center is making it possible for new outreach and programs. Please check out the rest of our website to find out all that is going on here at Forbush Friends Meeting. We look forward to hearing from you!
Andy Lambert, pastor of Forbush Friends Meeting*
*If you are new to the Quaker tradition (don't worry, I'm new as well), we believe the people are the "church" and so we call the building the "meeting house," thus the name Forbush Friends Meeting.
About our pastor and his family… A Methodist Evangelist at Quaker Church?
I continue to run into people who scratch their head and say, "A Methodist Evangelist at Quaker Church... How did this happen?" I usually say something about me holding a revival last spring at Forbush Friends Meeting. Sometimes I mention that my great grandfather, Pastor Wade Adams, was Forbush's second pastor. These are all adequate answers, but the best answer to the question…. "How did this happen... a Methodist Evangelist at Quaker Church" is… for reasons beyond my understanding, Jesus made a way for us to be in ministry at Forbush Friends Meeting. Jesus knew this is where we needed to be. It is, as people say, a God-thing. My wife Renee and I, and our daughters Grace and Joy, consider ourselves blessed to be a part of Forbush Friends Meeting.
Below is a little about the Lambert family.
Renee is Andy's opposite. She does not crave attention, is humble, sweet and very shy. After being a full-time mom while Grace and Joy were toddlers, Renee returned to teaching in 1997. Renee has a calling from God to teach and is fulfilling that call as a second grade teacher at Boonville Elementary School. She has been recognized for commitment to teaching as the "Teacher of Year" at Boonville Elementary and is active in a teaching organization called Delta Kappa Gamma. Renee and Andy will celebrate twenty five years of marriage in May of 2009. Renee eats, sleeps, and breath's Duke Basketball.
Grace is a junior at Appalachian State University and is working towards a degree in special education. She plans to work with children who have severe disabilities. Grace is active in a campus ministry called Wesley Foundation and has been sweet on the same boy, Luke Wells (who we love as well!), since she was 14 years old. Grace celebrated her twentieth birthday in September.
Joy will be seventeen in December and is a junior at Starmount High School. She is active in drama, chorus and a number of other organizations at Starmount. Joy can text message at lighting speed even with her eyes closed. She continues to be involved in youth ministries all over North Carolina and recently preached at Pilot View Friends Meeting to kick off their fall revival. Joy plans to become a youth pastor.
Andy is a native of Yadkin County and Winston-Salem. He is a graduate of Appalachian State University and Duke University. He has been a pastor in Reidsville at Mt. Carmel United Methodist Church and Center United Methodist Church in Yadkinville. In 1997, after ten years in the pastorate, Reverend Lambert was appointed as a general evangelist in the United Methodist Church. He is the founder of Isaac ministries, an interdenominational ministry of evangelism and renewal. Andy is the author "Man-Eatin' Mutant Monsters from Mars", the co-author of, "Fuel for the Journey: a guide for new and growing Christians" and video host for the new Disciple Bible study "Rings of Fellowship." Andy has released several comedy DVD. Andy is the president of MemoryCross.com a company which provides resources for children and adults to learn scripture by heart. In July of 2008 Andy became the pastor of Forbush Friends Meeting and considers himself extremely blessed.
