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  • Green Shoots from the Stump ✓
    In the first of a two-part series, the Rev. Brent Owens writes that when you're down, you're not out.
  • Limited funds, limited time, yet success ✓
    Many small parishes never undertake capital campaigns because of the difficulties and limitations that come with having few resources.
  • Editor's note ✓
    There are a few myths floating around about small congregations: they reflect the demise of the Church; they are poor; they are troublesome; and they are a minority in the Episcopal Church.
  • Revolution brews in the baptismal font ✓
    “You are troublemakers,” charged Tom Ray, retired bishop from the Diocese of Northern Michigan, which has been on the forefront of the Total Ministry movement in the Episcopal Church for the past twenty-five years. “This is serious stuff.”
  • Ups and downs of small church ministry ✓
    In the Book of Deuteronomy Moses says to the Israelites, “See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse.” He holds up the entire life of faith and offers his people a choice — to love and serve the Lord their God or to revolt and ig…
  • What is a “vital small congregation?” ✓
    Some congregations are vital and alive; others are not. Why?
  • Feeding your soul in the small church ✓
    Being senior warden is demanding, regard- less of the size of your congregation. In a small congregation, though, the demands are magnified because church staff members are in short supply.