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Discernment Creates Buy-In
By Jerry Keucher
The Discernment phase of a capital campaign is as important as either the Feasibility Study or the Solicitation phase, and it is a unique part of ECF’s capital campaign method.
Why are we here?
By Linda Buskirk
In this time of returning back to ordinary activities, it is a good time to be asking why are we here?
Five Resources for Discipleship
By Melissa Rau
This month we offer five resources on discipleship. Please share this digest with new members of your vestry and extend an invitation to subscribe to ECF Vital Practices to receive Vestry Papers and the monthly digest.
Five Resources for Managing Endowments
By Melissa Rau
This month we are highlighting five resources to help your vestry or other church groups learn more about effective endowment management.
Church Lenten Discipline
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?
Speaking of Hope
By Anna Olson
The church today is not so unlike Luke’s audience. As we invite new neighbors and speak to new people, we are less and less able to presume a common vocabulary of faith or a common set of agreed-upon hopes.
What Will be Remembered?
By Richelle Thompson
When we come to an end, what do we hope others remember of us? And how can we change what we’re doing right now to make that a reality?
Not What We Expect
By Linda Buskirk
There is a scary sense of the unknown at the start of a period of congregational discernment, whether for a potential capital campaign or for strategic visioning.
5 Vestry Retreat Resources
By Brendon Hunter
Five resources to help your vestry, bishop’s committee, or other leadership group take a productive and life-giving retreat.
Story Sharing
By Linda Buskirk
Prayerfully pour your heart out over a keyboard or a pad of paper. Whether it’s a paragraph or a trilogy, whether your story involves trauma or joy, loss or success, profound experience with God or unanswered questions about faith – now is the time to share it.
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