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…data storage, and other digital platforms can be maintained with integrity through the change of clergy leadership. Comings and goings in a digital age can be a complex affair. Some…
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…proven itself a remarkable vehicle — not just to fund our mission, but to strengthen local evangelism and community building. Various elements of the tree sale have contributed greatly to…
…church office by supervising two other staff members, overseeing communication coming from the church office, and planning the church calendar with the church administrator Attending to church outreach by updating…
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…religious organization. This may not come up in the interview process, but it could come up three years later. You could get a new priest at the parish who doesn’t…
…ask me about church planting, I often encourage them to think about going through community organizing training, which, among other things, helps individuals learn the necessity of building public relationships….
…E. Sheppard. Used by permission of Zondervan. www.zondervan.com. The book may be purchased at https://www.zondervan.com/9780310893134/contagious-generosity/. Related Resources Stop Taking Givers for Granted by Chris Willard And Jim Sheppard 50 Ways…
…pages but not the home page. Make the page uncluttered — you do not need to say everything on the home page. Think www.Google.com more than www.cnn.com. View the site…
…to help you communicate the story to your audience. Stories teach us who we are and who we want to be. They can inspire your community to action. Excerpted from…
…Presence As a pastor becomes a part of the congregation, the pastor must guard his or her schedule to make time for congregants. The community will call, denominational loyalties will…
…open to the Spirit of God and to God’s shaping. Listen to an MP3 of Bishop Robert Schnase https://www.churchleadership.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/SchnaseInterview3M.mp3 Five Practices of Fruitful Living is available from Amazon.com and Cokesbury.com….
…a local church has a profound effect on how strong that community’s witness can be. It is seldom the case that a local church will rise above the level of…
Podcast Episode 120 How can churches partner with other organizations to effectively and comprehensively meet the needs of their community? We speak with Glorymar Rivera Báez, executive director of REHACE,…
…families in your community and to build relationships within the congregation as volunteers of all ages work together to tell the story of Holy Week and Easter. When the children…
Lovett Weems stresses the need for quantitative metrics, arguing that churches will never make the changes needed to attract new people until they commit to reach those people. Qualitative and…
…us coming to retirement in the next ten to twenty years face our own challenge — will we meet the challenge of ending our ministries well? “Moses was 120 years…
…And you learned how to apply the technology you had. As a preacher, you had to learn some tricks about communicating with a camera versus communicating with a live audience….
…church’s property is for worship, education, fellowship, and community service. However, even active congregations have relatively low space usage compared to how other organizations use their space. So, exploring additional…
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…church properties. Sometimes, they create a community space in the housing complex that the church can use as a worship space on Sundays. Pastor McDow is deeply concerned by the…
…your congregation get off on the right foot when initiating a church-school partnership. Ultimately, trust comes if your church follows through on its commitments and shows a willingness to stay…
…experience First Parish was hemorrhaging money for one main reason: it couldn’t afford its full-time pastor. Clergy compensation (salary, housing allowance, and benefits) was costing the church nearly six figures…
Many congregations find that reaching out to their local schools is an important way to serve children and their families and strengthen ties with the broader community. Here are 50…
Every time I teach a stewardship workshop or class, this question invariably comes up: “Should a pastor have access to contribution records?” In some congregations, pastors are prohibited from knowing…
…making an impact. And, in this day of increasingly interactive communication, feedback can foster a dialogue that will improve preaching. Feedback is the lifeblood of creative, responsive church leadership. So…
…separated from the gospel that informs it. Stewards are not “ecclesiastical civil servants,” but bearers of the riches of God’s grace. The biblical “steward” was a household administrator; but this…
…Talk to people instead of about them These types of responses are a form of behavior that system theorists call triangulation. Triangulation is a common communication pattern in which one…
…Willard and Jim Sheppard. Copyright © 2012 by Chris Willard and James E. Sheppard. Used by permission of Zondervan. www.zondervan.com. The book may be purchased at zondervan.com/contagious-generosity. Related Resources Developing…
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