Strengthening Online Worship Beyond the Pandemic
Lovett H. Weems Jr. says a continued commitment to online worship is not a hindrance that detracts from in-person worship but rather a vital way to reach new people and…
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Churches Continue to Increase Lay Staff
…The Lewis Center has been seeking to learn the proportions of church budgets spent on paid clergy personnel compared to paid lay personnel, and we have discovered there is limited…
How a Creative, Justice-Oriented Stations of the Cross Called a Community to Action
…to a City in Need by Kate Payton Taking Church to the Community by Ann A. Michel 50 Ways to Take Church to the Community, a free Lewis Center resource…
Sustaining While Disrupting: An In-Depth Interview with Doug Powe and Lovett Weems
…to its community. The members no longer live there. People in the church don’t know people in the community. People in the community don’t know people in the church. There’s…
Leadership Lessons from Jackie Robinson
…Jackie Robinson “was a freedom rider before freedom rides.” A 13-year-old Hank Aaron in Alabama suddenly saw new possibilities for himself. An 8-year-old Lou Brock in Louisiana faithfully listened to…
Improving Worship Attendance in a Post-Pandemic World
Free Webinar — Register Now Learn best practices your church can use to increase in-person and online worship attendance. Tuesday, October 25, Noon-1:30 p.m. Eastern For most congregations, attracting new…
Moving Beyond a Congregational Identity Crisis
…rather than listen to learn what their community needs. A need may be as simple as a place to get free internet so children can complete their homework. A faithful…
Saying “Yes” to Clear Purpose Can Require Saying “No” to Long-Cherished Ministries
…go of the bazaar. As Janet Cawley observed in her book, Who is Our Church? Imagining Congregational Identity, “The truth will make you free, but first it will make you…
Know What Season You’re In
…There is a very relaxed feel that settles over our community; people come to church dressed very casually. For our staff, this is the season of preparation for the year…
Every Church is a Work in Progress
…Youth Ministry by Any Other Name by Kenda Creasy Dean Change Leaders Persevere by Ken Owens 50 Ways to Strengthen Ministry with Youth, a free resource from the Lewis Center…
How Perfectionism Gets in the Way of Ministry
…can do it as well as they can. That’s perfectionism — and it’s also overfunctioning. They complain that others won’t step up. Yet the basic rule about the balance between…
4 Audiences for Digital Engagement
…platforms, and additional users of said platforms. Sometimes all it takes for deeper engagement is a personal connection or a shared commitment to meet the needs of the community. 1….
4 Critical Areas of Support for Virtual Worship
…human resources needed to help with key positions to orchestrate online worship (training events for students and volunteers, outreach to the community colleges for assistance, companies within your community that…
Webpages for Superintendents and Board of Ordained Ministry
The Lewis Center brings together some of its most used resources for District Superintendents and Boards of Ordained Ministry on dedicated webpages. Feel free to review and use any of…
Expanding a School Partnership through Community Dinners
…benefit of the Eugene Field community. It is an active example of church, school, and community coming together. Related Resources: Engaging Local Schools Resource Effective Church-School Partnerships by Nicole Baker…
People Give to People
…he began to share with me the relationship he had developed with the president of the college. He commented that the president had come to see him personally six to…
The Church That Wouldn’t Die
…hygiene products. When burglars constantly broke in to pilfer things, he would complain only that there was no need to steal because things were free for the taking. When Jesus…
A Healthy Youth Group
…E. Jacober in The Pastor’s Guide to Youth Ministry (Abingdon Press, 2006). And this realization can free you to approach the task authentically, prayerfully, and successfully. This book offers encouraging,…
A Better Script for Small Churches
…what do we say about them? Are these small churches the unavoidable casualties of some invisible force at work: survival of fittest (Herbert Spencer), the invisible hand of free market…
Think Bigger: The Challenge of Reaching Millennials
…millennials and acknowledge that necessary change may come from the outside in. Leading from Brokenness I think we will discover that “authenticity” is the particular yearning of this generation. It…
Put Your Money Where You Want Your Heart to Be
…It makes it far more likely that you will come to understand yourself as a steward of God’s free gifts, rather than the owner of what you have. Here’s one…
Church Renewal Requires Property Renewal
…visitor will be certain to see assertively proclaims that the parish system is failing and has come to be comfortable with that. Most people will be happy to see things…
Creating Positive Staff Dynamics
…the backbone of the ministry of our church. Creative compensation Jesus was pretty up front about compensation: “Go and sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor,…
Leadership Lessons from a Dairy Queen
…Here are a couple of tokens for two free sundaes!” I was in awe. I hadn’t complained about my cone; it was delicious. But this man went out of his…
10 Leadership Lessons from Nehemiah
Examining the biblical account of Nehemiah rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem, Lovett H. Weems Jr. sees a compelling example of how a leader should function. Nehemiah defined the reality of…
Leadership for Giving
…Vision The single most common theme in all studies of leadership is the presence of a powerful common shared vision. A vision is a picture of a preferred future to…
The Four Stages of a Pastoral Transition
…as the pastor builds credibility and comes to understand more of God’s calling for the congregation’s next faithful step. The First Chapter is a multi-year period of pastoral ministry coming…
Freeing Laity for Ministry
…community. One hour is a small enough commitment that most people can accomplish it, but it really becomes powerful when multiplied across a congregation. The impact is tremendous. My church…
Getting to Know the “Mayors” of Your Community
Congregational revitalization happens when the community and the church come together to make it happen. But it can’t be the church saying, “This is what the community needs.” It has…
Nelson Mandela — A Leader for His Time
…Freedom, Little, Brown & Co., 1994, 544) The Leadership Qualities of Nelson Mandela Magnanimity. “It was during those long and lonely (prison) years that my hunger for the freedom of…
