Congregations Nurturing Future Leaders
…leadership. The call to ordained ministry is often understood as a private communication with God, and it is. But the call is almost never heard without others who teach us…
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Do Endowments Help or Hurt?
…have been set free by those same gifts. Endowments can be your master, or they can be your servant. It has everything to do with your endowment policy. Too many…
What’s Your Church’s “Ladder”?
…in the community respond? Do people think of your church as one of many churches, or do they associate your church with something distinctive? It matters. A Faith Community Today…
Leaders Need Holy Friendships
Many think of a leader as the lone figure who walks in front of the crowd. A far more healthy view would ask how a leader experiences the community of…
Your Building Has More Signs Than You Think
…come over. If you’ve been at your church for a while, you might not see what’s not working. Ask a friend, preferably someone who is great at being very honest…
Top 10 Learnings about Welcoming Newcomers
…to welcome newcomers – one in the fall and one in the spring. This has helped us move from a mindset of “if people come” to “when people come.” That…
Navigating Shifting and Competing Values
When I have done strategic planning with congregations of older members, it is common to hear their values expressed as family, community, and faith. But all these are changing. Family…
Building Community through Ministry Teams
…but it isn’t Christian community. Real community doesn’t happen in rows of chairs, but in circles. Real community happens when people sit eyeball-to-eyeball, knee-to-knee. When I can see you cry,…
Orchestrating Conflict
…apart. I mediated the discussion. Everyone was free to voice concerns but without personal attacks. Throughout the meeting, I continued to ask the group, “How can our actions help us…
3 Questions to Preserve Energy and Passion in Ministry
…challenge these assumptions and help clergy “switch off” and restore their energy and passion for ministry. Even the most energetic congregational leader has limited energy. Structured free time, such as…
First Impressions Are Formed Earlier Than You Think
…is used for insider communication without much consideration for new persons. Have someone not affiliated with your church take a look at your online presence and give you some feedback….
Moving Faith Communities to Fruitful Conversations about Race
…forward bravely and boldly in the name of Christ. The free resource is divided into four videos which may be used in one or more sessions. Moving Faith Communities to…
8 Things Your Christian Educator Wants You to Know
…stand with them in worship and teach them by example how to thank and praise God with prayer, music, study, and service? 3. My job description sometimes feels overwhelming. The…
Welcoming Change Begins with You
…our patterns. Congregants don’t perceive that they have done anything wrong or different. But to the outsider, these habits come off as inhospitable. While these habits seem like small things…
5 Ways Female Leaders Undermine Themselves
…resistance. Compliance means that people are going along with you grudgingly but aren’t fully committed to your ideas. Resistance means that they are actively or passively refusing to comply with…
7 Ideas for Making Vacation Bible School an Evangelism Opportunity
…take a look at who attended last year and refamiliarize yourself with their names. Greeting returning families by name will make a real impression on them, communicating your genuine interest….
From Parking Lot to Pew: Turning Building Users into Worshipers
Many churches provide meeting space for community groups hoping that building users will eventually show up for worship. But for a church to reach new people through its facility, it…
Reaching More Diverse People in Suburbs
…community that had previously been made up only of one race that is in transition to becoming another one-race community only of another race. There was the “tipping point” concept…
Clergy Taxes and the New Tax Law
…a free video on clergy taxes in its Clergy Personal Finance Resources collection of video and print resources. You can find the tax video in the “Compensation and Taxes” unit….
Martin Luther King Jr.’s 4 Key Principles of Prophetic Witness
…Hunt. Available at Amazon. Related Resources: Moving Faith Communities to Fruitful Conversations about Race, a free video study Ten Ways to Build the Beloved Community by Tony Hunt Nelson Mandela…
The Annual Conference as the Basic Unit of the Church
…centrality of the annual conference cannot remain unless historical and theological values are applied to fit changing times, even as John Wesley felt free to modify tradition for the sake…
Why Don’t People Volunteer at Church?
…volunteer and a servant? Volunteers can be defined as people who freely offer themselves for a service. They have a free choice to be involved or not. In many situations…
Blessing of the Bikes
…by Ann A. Michel Putting Ourselves in the Places Where Life Happens by Keith Anderson 50 Ways to Take Church to the Community, a free resource from the Lewis Center…
The Good Neighbor Church
…to meet and get acquainted with the church’s neighbors was intimidating yet free — with eternal reward potential. A Good Neighbor team A “Good Neighbors” team was formed, composed mostly…
Building Congregational Engagement in a Church-School Partnership
…program, you’ll better shape the recruitment language. Recruitment The way you recruit should also match the commitment required. If, for example, you are planning a one-hour packaging event for a…
Status, Ambition, and the Way of Jesus
…be kept in check. He says the most common strategy employed by the New Testament authors in response to conflicts over status was an appeal to the example of Jesus….
Relationships Are Important to Vitality
…that pull the circles apart cause the community to struggle in all three areas making accomplishing goals difficult with diminishing trust and commitment. Actions that appear logical and necessary from…
What’s Your Goal for Visitor Follow-Up?
…to help people begin or continue their discipleship journey. What the church offers, including membership, will then be seen and communicated through that discipleship lens. One drawback in membership-centered thinking…
Doing Mission Fundraising Well
…fundraiser, we strategically create a scheduled communication plan that typically includes each of the following: compelling newsletter articles, an invitation to give letter, blog posts, a video, photo displays in…
Blessing Boxes Energize Churches to Meet Needs
…can. The Blessing Box phenomenon has been compared to the Little Free Library movement, which provides small cabinets of books for communities to borrow and trade. When a member of…
