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By Linda Buskirk
Here is a creative way to get visionary juices flowing at your next Vestry planning retreat: Start writing your congregation’s 2023 Annual Report.
By Linda Buskirk
Strategic planner that I am, I love it when a plan starts coming together with results. One of the readings for Epiphany, Ephesians 3: 1-12, reveals some pretty amazing aspects of God’s plan already in the works.
By Linda Buskirk
Why can’t we just ask people what they want to do?
By Alan Bentrup
What old ways of thinking do we need to let go of - what old things need to die - so that we can more clearly hear and discern where God would have us act?
By Greg Syler
We’ll need these precious, quiet times in the year – these times when the world around seems to hush, even for just a bit – so we can come indoors, reflect, give thanks, and look forward – this dynamic communal motion which is really just one and the same.
By Richelle Thompson
I wanted, really wanted, to be a gracious winner, but maybe there’s greater opportunity for change if I can learn how to be a gracious loser.
By Alan Bentrup
What the Church does (or should do) is all missional. But I think too often we forget that.
By Alan Bentrup
The problem isn’t generating ideas; it is overcoming the obstacles and executing your new idea.
By Wendy Johnson
It’s time to start thinking about the opportunities you have for local engagement ahead of the November 8 election.
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