Pastor Tim Graham

Pastor Tim Graham at Red Bayou Methodist Church in New Boston TX has started an exciting and welcoming year for us!

Our First Sunday with Pastor Tim Graham - March 15, 2026

WOW!! What an amazing experience this past Sunday was at Red Bayou Global Methodist Church. Standing behind the pulpit for the first time as the full time pastor was a wonderful experience. The familiar faces in the crowd showing up to support a leap of faith for both the Church and myself was certainly an encouragement. Charles Burnett, Rex Murdock, and Patrick & Scarlett Bray welcomed everyone to the service, while Robin Murdock and Carol Smith worked in the Fellowship Hall to prepare the meal afterwards. Amy Burnett chose the music and it was so fitting when the familiar chorus of “Surely the Presence of the Lord” was sung by the congregation.

The Holy Spirit was definitely alive and well within the walls of the Chapel this Sunday morning. The fellowship and the food after the service was tremendous as we were able to sit and visit with family, friends, and neighbors.

I look forward to many more Sundays like this past one, and the opportunity to allow others to experience it as well. We welcome everyone to come and join us for worship services.

Firmly in His grip,
Tim Graham

Exciting News!!

3 MARCH 2026

My name is Tim Graham, and as of 15 March 2026, I am going to take on a two point charge in the Global Methodist Church pastoring at Red Bayou Global Methodist Church and Daniels Chapel Global Methodist Church, both of which are in New Boston, Texas. My wife Christina and I are excited about these opportunities to be in ministry partnerships with these two congregations.

Having been a lifelong Methodist, I am thankful that there are still churches steeped in the Wesley tradition, faithful to the Word of God, and that are intent on making disciples. It is a denomination that has given our family plenty of opportunities to grow in Christlikeness through small group participation, Sunday School classes, and ministries in and around New Boston. While this is an enormous leap of faith for us as a family, we believe that God is throwing a door wide open and is calling us to enter. So we are going to embark on this new journey with the faith of Abraham, with the hope that our faithfulness will be credited to us as righteousness, not our works. God can use the life experiences and the gifts that we possess to bring others into a relationship with Him. It has been an unlikely journey that has placed us here at this moment, but we believe that we are in this position “for such a time as this”. God’s timing is perfect.

In the spirit of the Wesley tradition, his Covenant Prayer is one that reminds us that there could be seasons: seasons of success, seasons of failure, seasons of drought, and seasons of plenty. If you are looking for a new church home, I encourage you to come and visit. Your relationship with God is paramount to any other one that you may have, and we pray that God will continue to open doors for you like He has for us. God bless.

John Wesley Covenant Prayer

I am no longer my own, but yours.
Put me to what you will, place me with whom you will.
Put me to doing, put me to suffering.
Let me be put to work for you or set aside for you,
Praised for you or criticized for you.
Let me be full, let me be empty.
Let me have all things, let me have nothing.
I freely and fully surrender all things to your glory and service.
And now, O wonderful and holy God,
Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer,
you are mine, and I am yours.
So be it.
And the covenant which I have made on earth,
Let it also be made in heaven. Amen.

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