in Vital Posts and filtered by Leadership, Small Churches, Capital Campaigns
By Annette Buchanan
Inequity and justice are common threads among these realities.
By Victor Conrado
El Canónigo Victor Conrado, Canónigo para vitalidad y formación en la diócesis episcopal de Nueva York nos comparte los recursos que encontró en la Fundación de la Iglesia Episcopal que pueden usar con sus congregaciones y juntas parroquiales.
By Ken Mosesian
Ken Mosesian compares the way it took a fire at Notre Dame to bring in money to fix its failing infrastructure, with the way it has taken a pandemic to bring attention to our broken healthcare system, our nursing homes, and more. We have the opportunity to rebuild new and better.
By Carsten Sierck
La Ley CARES es una nueva ley compleja. El propósito de este memorando es solo presentar un resumen de disposiciones que pueden ser importantes para los esfuerzos de mayordomía de una iglesia. Los donantes siempre tienen que consultar a sus asesores profesionales antes de realizar una donación.
By Ken Mosesian
Ken Mosesian takes stock of our new reality and encourages us as lay and clergy leaders to continue moving forward towards the light, creating virtual resources that will sustain our congregations until we can be physically together again.
By ECFVP Editorial Team
Below you will find resources we’ve gathered from across the Church, designed to inform and support us through the current COVID-19 pandemic.
By Greg Syler
Would your small church be better off in collaboration with another small church? In his latest blog, Greg Syler proposes that the Episcopal Church use some multisite thinking. He presents statistics to show that the movement towards multisites is growing and that its practitioners are happy with the model.
By Lisa G. Fischbeck
Many have used metaphor to teach about the Church, the church as a mother, etc. In her blog, Lisa Fischbeck compares small and mid-sized churches to corgis, agile little dogs that have the fortitude of big dogs but with small dog advantages.
By Jerry Campbell
Jerry Campbell writes about St. Mark’s Episcopal Church and how it will be able to open a new parish center. St. Mark’s story is comprised of four pieces, with the capital campaign facilitated by ECF being the final piece of the puzzle.
By Lindsey Harts
Lindsey Harts grew up doing “code red drills” where she hid from a pretend shooter. She feels that this common experience among millennials helped lead to the generation’s demand for radical authenticity. As she says, “in a world where shootings are live-streamed on the internet…you tend to have a very low tolerance for nonsense.”