Vestry
It’s Lent – a great time to start constructing your congregation’s annual giving campaign – and, no, not as part of your penance.
An analogous question comes up in my own work across the church and with membership and leadership development. Should the rector be a member of the vestry? Should the rector run the vestry meetings?
Five resources to help your vestry or other church group have more engaging and productive meetings.
“Your church passed,” the visitor told me.
Five resources to help your newly forming vestry get off to a strong start.
What do you wish you had known when you first joined the vestry? See advice from ECFVP Facebook followers and resources to help you take concrete first steps towards effective vestry leadership.
Here is a creative way to get visionary juices flowing at your next Vestry planning retreat: Start writing your congregation’s 2023 Annual Report.
This month we’re sharing five of the most popular posts in 2017 on ECF Vital Practices.
In the pledge-driven madness, let us not forget the other half of good stewardship: faithful and realistic budgeting.
Five resources to help your vestry, bishop’s committee, or other leadership group take a productive and life-giving retreat.
Vestry nominations and elections are right around the corner for many congregations. Around the next corner, hopefully, is an annual planning retreat for the newly-organized Vestry.
It is important to add this critical topic (disaster preparedness) to the agenda at our next Vestry meeting.
How can we meet better? Here are 5 ways you can start.
Lynne Switalski offers 10 pointers for new Senior Wardens.
Are you interested in practical, spiritually grounded resources for your congregation?
What traits would we include in our “top ten” for being a terrific Vestry member?
How are you approaching your annual vestry meeting?
This post features 5 ways to help your newly forming vestry get off to a strong start.
Teams that work well together understand that each member must respect the others’ opinions and priorities.
Consider your 2017 time together as a vestry as an opportunity to create a holy balance of prayer, formation, vision-level strategic thinking and routine business.