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By Carsten Sierck
Should your church have an endowment? What is an endowment and why does it matter? Read on for answers from ECFs Endowment Management Team.
By Josh Anderson
Like many of us, ECF Associate Program Director Josh Anderson has trouble with winter. But where there is challenge, there is also opportunity. He talks here about financial opportunities to be found during the bleakness.
By Annette Buchanan
Inequity and justice are common threads among these realities.
By Hilary Bogert-Winkler
Hilary Bogert-Winkler argues that millennials as a group have a particular relationship with authenticity. The churches she’s seen that are thriving and that have a healthy number of millennials and their families are churches that have a firm sense of who they are.
By Melissa Rau
This month, we are highlighting five resources that can help your faith community invest in and maintain an endowment.
By Mike Chalk
Every so often the leadership of a congregation decides that it is necessary to spend some valuable time discerning what needs to be addressed.
By Alan Bentrup
There’s much we can learn as Christians from the news around us. Including business news.
By Linda Buskirk
A new calendar year brings renewed resolutions to do things right.
By Linda Buskirk
In this time of returning back to ordinary activities, it is a good time to be asking why are we here?
By Annette Buchanan
What if collectively as congregations we agreed to rid ourselves of bad habits and engage in new practices that enhance the overall life of our church?