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By Alan Bentrup
Where have you seen a change in your community, and how have you tried to engage?
By Lisa G. Fischbeck
The question is not so much, “What is my vocation?” The question is rather, “How is God calling me to live out my vocation?”
By Greg Syler
“How do you do Sunday mornings?” That’s perhaps the most common question I get when someone realizes that I serve as one rector of two congregations.
By Greg Syler
“How do you do Sunday mornings?” That’s perhaps the most common question I get when someone realizes that I serve as one rector of two congregations.
By Janet Lombardo
Congregations often want to be all things to all people, jumping on every new idea without considering whether it supports the congregation’s mission to the community. The ideas may be good individually, but how do they align with the congregation’s mission and ministry? When a congregation fragments its mission, it is a recipe for failure.
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 Greg Syler
If we push ourselves in new directions, I believe we might in turn realize new things – not the least about God, who is (still) the Lord of the church.
By Linda Buskirk
In 2015, Vital Posts recorded the planting of a new Episcopal congregation in Brownsburg, Indiana, just outside Indianapolis. The small seed of a congregation that Fr. Gray planted has grown to nearly 130 people of Good Samaritan Episcopal Church.
By Linda Buskirk
Why can’t we just ask people what they want to do?