Vital Posts

Richelle Thompson

Richelle Thompson is a regular blogger to ECF Vital Practices, writing from the Diocese of Southern Ohio where she serves as director of communications.  A clergy wife and mother of two, Richelle also serves on the board of Episcopal Communicators and Forward Movement.  Write Richelle at rthompson@diosohio.org

Recent Posts:

Ashes -- and a message in a bottle
Un-masking Mardi Gras
Cupid-ity or Stupidity?
A New Way to Start a Meeting
Making Announcements that Work
Accountability in Community.
Are we there yet?
A Secret Key to Keywords
Unlocking Keywords
Google: Your Way to the Top
Seeing Jesus
Nametags: Opposites attract
Light as a feather or stiff as a board? Vestry ice breakers
A Leopard and its Spots
What We Leave Behind
Making Room
Elf on a Shelf -- and Control
What's Your Dirt Pile?
Community and Security
A Clever Social Media Tool
St. Nicholas: Putting away (my) childish things
Leaving is Lonely
Helping out the Calendar Master
B-4: Traditions of Thanksgiving
Here, Hear the Children
Vestry: Cast of Characters
QR: Business card
Saints Among Us
Broken Windows
Refrigerator Score
e-Newsletters: Tips and trends (or How to get people to read your stuff)
Save the Shift Key
D.A.N.C.E.
Change
Charting a New Path
The Baptist Bus Driver
Dreaming, Google, and the Church
Roscoe and the Widow's Mite
Do All Dogs Go to Heaven?
Old Dogs, New Tricks
Thanks, Netflix: A Lesson in Communication and Change
If You (Re-)build it, Will They Come?
Regrets?
Spiritual but not Religious?
Back to Church Sunday
An Unexpected Gift
Taking it to the Streets
Who do you say that I am?
A Stewardship Miracle
What's in a Name
Waxing nostalgic: Back to school
A Children's Place
Sharing Time
Finding Mr./Mrs. (the Rev.) Right
Shooting Stars
Hard Decisions, Winning Strategies
The Value of Advice
Doing the Trim Work
Redesigning your Website
To Print or Not to Print
Blowing off Steam
The Next Meeting Tango...
Drum Roll Please ... a Look at Great Facebook Users
Archbishop LIKES Facebook
Giving Church the 'Super 8' Treatment
Space invaders
Mass: A Conversation
To (Name) Tag or Not to Tag?
Led by Children
Taking One for the Team
Closed in Observance of the Ascension of Our Lord
Building Community -- at a Campground -- and Church
Domain over your Domain
How Does Your Garden Grow?
Stewardship: Glass half-full
Raising PKs
Kindness of FB friends
When the Outside Doesn’t Match the Inside
The Cacophony of Children
Osama bin Laden: To rejoice or not?
Undercover Rector: Coffee and Conversation
10-Minute Rule
A Taste of Heaven
Losing Your Pew, Gaining ground
Room 306: A Prophet Then and Now
Reclaiming Sacred Space is Hard.
Episode II, Undercover Rector: LOL
Undercover Rector
A Man Named Roscoe
Soul Food Pyramid
Knee-deep: The tough work of being church
Saintly Smackdown
The Ides of March, George Clooney, and the Episcopal Church
In God's Time
Buildings as Tranformational Tools
Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler!
Academy Awards and Church Announcements: Time to Cue the Orchestra
Time to Flip out
The Proper Distance?
Website tools: Analytics
Mommy's a Good Multi-tasker
There IS an App for That
Sharing Love Stories
Meeting without Meeting
El cuidado y la alimentación de los sacerdotes
Care and Feeding of Priests
A New Program Goes Old-School
A Game of Pick-Up-Sticks
New Kind of Potluck at the Annual Meeting
A Mega-Church Plant
Baby Boomers: Put down the microphone
Chalk marks the Way
Balancing the Good News scale
Emmanuel
Resolution: Believe
Glorious In-Between Times
Making Room This Christmas
Transitive Verbs ... and Christmas
Seeing with New Eyes
How not to win friends and impress visitors
Jesus and Santa
St. Nicholas: Connecting the Past and the Present
Behaving Badly (and Publicly)
BreakingTradition
Appreciate Me Now
A Thanksgiving Feast - The Religious Kind
Back to basics
The Mustard Seed
And the Gold Goes to ...
The Balance Between Crazy and Amazing
Church and Sate
Saints Alive
Hollow me out
Three stitches. All better.
GodSquad met at our house.
Growth Charts
Riding Shotgun