Leadership

After several attempts to add the daily office to the Advocate’s liturgical offerings through the years, both in person and online, Covid has given us the inclination and the desire to make it happen. Zoom has made it possibl…
ECF's Sandra Montes gathered 60 women from different ages, backgrounds, nationalities, and offices within the Episcopal Church to collaborate on a fun project.
In Self Care, Ken Mosesian encourages all of us, but particularly those of us who lead others, to invest the time in ourselves so we can more fully give to those around us.
In the weeks or months ahead, faith communities will gather again. Can we really just pick up where we left off and head on our way?
In part 2 of his blog on transformational vestries, Greg Syler advocates that we work to better align our vestries with the methods of a missionary church.
Inequity and justice are common threads among these realities.
This month Victor Conrado shares five resources on equipping lay leaders.
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 m…
Online platforms for ministry will become increasingly important in the new normal of post Covid-19.
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act, signed into law on March 27, 2020, includes several provisions that may affect charitable giving this year. We encourage churches to talk about these opport…
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 t…
How can our congregations do effective outreach while the COVID 19 pandemic makes social distancing necessary?
Yes, this is a time to refrain from embracing. But what else does this scary time of COVID-19 offer to those in church leadership?
Below you will find resources we’ve gathered from across the Church, designed to inform and support us through the current COVID-19 pandemic.
This month we offer five resources on lay leadership.
They may not have the fragrance of frankincense or the mystery of myrrh, but here are three gifts worth their weight in gold to your faith community.
Nick Sollog relates his experience with a church that was in the middle of a feasibility study when their rector was elected Bishop of another diocese. All hope was not lost! The vestry found two chairs to lead the campaign, …
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 w…
John Lynch was always expected to be a leader as a millennial. He thinks it’s because he continued to show up in church. Here he shares his impressions of leadership and a lesson that he learned from members of the oldest gen…
Maria Bautista Vargas is privileged to have been supported in the church and connected to transformative leadership opportunities, but recognizes that there are many other young adults without such opportunities. Which is a s…