Ashes to go
Posted: March 5, 2015By Sue Sprang LAKE ANN/TRAVERSE CITY – On Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18, Advent Lutheran Church, St. Ann, brought Jesus to the “heart of the city” with the imposition of ashes. […]
Read more →Heeding the tug
Posted: March 3, 2015By Sue Sprang AU GRES – First call pastor Rheanna Goodrich considers herself “a denominational mutt”. Born in Havre, Montana, Goodrich was baptized in her mother’s faith tradition, the Lutheran […]
Read more →A path well-trodden
Posted:By Sue Sprang HOLLAND – Pastor Justin Walker is in his third year, and first call, at Peace Lutheran Church, Holland – but not before his journey took him […]
Read more →When Churches Want a Pastor Who Can “Bring in Young Families”…
Posted:By Jan Edmiston . . . please consider sharing this post. Almost every church I’ve ever known has wanted to Attract Young Families. The reasoning behind this includes the […]
Read more →Savings from Technology Can Help Fund Mission
Posted:By Pastor David Sprang It seems every ministry of the church is looking for ways to save money in order to fund mission. There could be a wealth of […]
Read more →Calculating the Cost of Ministry
Posted:by Sarai Schnucker Rice If the “cost” of something is “the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain it,” and calculating it is going to require manipulating numbers, […]
Read more →5 Things I’ve Learned by Greeting People at the Curb (or More Than Name tags…)
Posted:By Geoff Sinibaldo It started on a whim. The Sunday of the vote to call me as pastor at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Old Saybrook, CT (8/31/2014) I […]
Read more →Top Ten Ways Churches Drive Away First-time Guests
Posted:By Thom Rainer If you attend a church regularly, you’ve probably noticed the phenomenon. A guest shows up for a worship service, but he or she never returns. It […]
Read more →12 Cultural Trends Church Leaders Can’t Ignore (But Might)
Posted:By Carey Nieuwhof When you lead an organization — especially when you are responsible for leading an organization like the local church — there is a temptation to ignore […]
Read more →Build Ubuntu Through Relationship
Posted:By Terrance Jacob I was asked to help a few predominantly Caucasian congregations of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to plan and execute a multicultural outreach strategy for […]
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