The Way of Love: Community Prayer Before Worship
Inspired by the Episcopal Church’s Way of Love initiative, the wardens at St Luke’s have been praying for their congregation before church on Sunday. Following the Way of Love The Episcopal Church...
View ArticleMinistry Fairs: Incorporating Gifts of the Spirit
“…help people identify their superpowers and find ways to use those gifts in ministry, to our mutual joy and benefit.“ The traditional ministry fair matches ministries to members. You know — display...
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4 Guidelines for Supporting Lay Preachers
Lay preachers are uniquely dedicated to preaching—clear enough about their calling to step out of the expected lane of lay ministry, in many cases doing the time-consuming work of preaching on top of...
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Reengaging Volunteer Leaders for Digital Ministry
It has now been over four months. It is time for me to return to facilitating the ministry rather than doing it all. There is something a friend of mine says that is just so fitting for this moment of...
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Leading an Effective Meeting Online
In-person or online, the giving and receiving of hospitality, respect, knowing what’s coming next, managing expectations and clear tasks to complete going forward are the same. Online Meetings: We...
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Webinar: Livestreaming: Platforms, Tech, and the Systems
Looking into the Fall season, there are a lot of different options to help your communities stay connected via livestreaming! Presenters Paul E. Reese and Merrill Whatley and host, Sarah Stonesifer...
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Creating Spiritual Space Online: Best Practices & Reflection Questions
Last fall, the Fetzer Institute released a new research report on best practices for creating sacred space online. As we continue to creatively adapt to new forms of gathering during pandemic, these...
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Pandemic Ministry Burnout
Being human over the last eleven months has been challenging in unprecedented ways. Ways that were simply unimaginable a year ago. The particularities of our circumstances may be different – maybe you...
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Webinar: Ministry After COVID: What have we learned? What comes next?
Join us on Thursday, March 18th at 3:00 Eastern Time for this webinar! Can’t make it on March 18th? Everyone who registers will receive the webinar resources and recording. Register here on...
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Planning for the 2021-2022 Program Year
Planning for the next program year after 12+ months of pandemic ministry pivots and continued uncertainty about what will be possible in the fall feels daunting. Even so, I am going to suggest a...
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Webinar: Attending to the Self: Healthy Habits for Sustainable Ministry
About this Webinar Creating healthy balance can be difficult in ministry, especially in the midst of change. This is an honest conversation between a licensed psychologist and priest, a clergy person...
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Stop, Collaborate, and Listen: Practical Steps to Increasing...
My earliest memory of church was when I was four years old at a women’s gathering at my church. I don’t remember if there were other children there or if this was one of the many times I tagged along...
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A Second Pandemic Program Year: Finding Handholds
My small parish in central North Carolina started gathering for Sunday morning in-person worship again a month ago. Literally, we have physically received Communion together during our principle...
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How to Develop an Action Map to Help you Achieve Goals
Have you ever gone to a conference where you learned some good stuff that you knew could make a difference to your congregation? And then you come home, and life happens and before you know it you...
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If You Are Exhausted, Of Course You Are.
2020 felt like a never ending year. It was such a relief when it came to an end. But then, I woke up on January 1, 2021 and nothing had really changed. The excitement of Christmas baking and stocking...
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Relationships are Key in the Post-Covid Church
What does the Post-Covid church look like? Some changes are here to stay, such as having an online presence and a greater awareness of practices to keep one another healthy and safe. But after so much...
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What Do You Need This Summer: Rest? Momentum? Connection?
We have crossed the threshold into the long, green season after Pentecost. We have turned the corner into “Ordinary Time.” Program years are ending and many of us are already knee-deep in pilgrimage...
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21st Century Faith Formation Trends
In Fashion Me A People: Curriculum in the Church (1989), Maria Harris writes, “Now we are in a time of movement toward a broader, more inclusive, and more complete understanding of what it means to...
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A Prayer Book Centered Children’s Chapel
Children’s chapel can mean many things in many different contexts. When I talk about children’s chapel, I’m talking about a program which provides children a space in which to actively participate in...
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A Path of Support and Discovery: Mentoring for Formation Leaders
“Do you really want me? I do not have any experience.”Have you approached someone about becoming a formation leader and heard this response? Have you ever said or thought this in your formation...
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