in Vital Posts and filtered by Pastoral Care, Small Churches, Vision
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?
By Alan Bentrup
Attendance, and budgets, and programs are important, sure. But are those the right questions? What new questions can we start asking?
By Alan Bentrup
What old ways of thinking do we need to let go of - what old things need to die - so that we can more clearly hear and discern where God would have us act?
By Greg Syler
We’ll need these precious, quiet times in the year – these times when the world around seems to hush, even for just a bit – so we can come indoors, reflect, give thanks, and look forward – this dynamic communal motion which is really just one and the same.
By Anne Weatherholt
An example of a stewardship letter and presentation to show what a smaller church can accomplish.