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Earth Day Resources
Earth Day resources for congregations focusing on liturgy, green congregations and climate change, and church gardens.
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2015 Church Leadership Conference: ECF Presentations
ECF offered a number of workshops the 2015 Church Leadership Conference: Charging Up; Charging Out: Energizing Church Leadership. Copies of the presentations and resources are offered below.
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Welcoming a New Rector
A crowd sourced list of what to do - or not do - when welcoming a new rector.
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Simplify Scheduling and Sign-Ups
Two easy and free tools to make scheduling a meeting and doing sign-ups online much easier and more flexible for everyone involved.
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Advent Devotional Calendar 2014
Thomas Mousin and Merry Watters share their 2014 Advent Devotional Calendar is here!.
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Creating an Online Parish Resource Center
This is the story of Spirit Link , St. Columba’s digital resource for spiritual exploration and Christian formation.
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Facebook Evangelism: Don't Just "Like"... "Share"!
With the enormous popularity of Facebook, we have a great opportunity for "Facebook evangelism." This is possible by using the "Share " option built into Facebook's operating system.
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An Experiment: Practicing Year Round Stewardship
As long as the annual giving campaign lived, a truly year round stewardship program would not be born. We stopped the annual giving campaign.
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Tools to Transform Money into Ministry
Instead of focusing on giving in your annual campaign, why not focus on doing: Invite people to fund God's work instead of asking for gifts to God.
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Starting Planned Giving from Scratch
Is there a sure-fire way to set up a planned giving effort from scratch in a congregation? While there's no magic bullet, Jim Murphy, ECF's managing program director for financial resources, recommends these basic steps.