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Sept 2021: "Shift...Shifted...Shifting..."

How to Start a Church with Three Showers and a Trailer

Sept 2021: "Shift...Shifted...Shifting..."

Nine Lessons from a Church Planter Emerging from the Pandemic

Sept 2021: "Shift...Shifted...Shifting..."

Work to Do: Ministry to Littles During the Pandemic

Sept 2021: "Shift...Shifted...Shifting..."

Exchanging Walls for Welcome; A Practical Examination of Relational Intersectionality in the Parish

Sept 2021: "Shift...Shifted...Shifting..."

Reflections on Pandemic Ministry

June 2021: "Reentry"

“What Will It Look Like?” A Ministry Q and A

June 2021: "Reentry"

You Are Enough: Reentering Ministry After a Pandemic

June 2021: "Reentry"

Reentry into Children’s Ministry

June 2021: "Reentry"

Mental Health First Aid: A Course You Might Not Know You Need

March 2021: "Grieve"

You Gotta Cry Sometimes

March 2021: "Grieve"

A Note from the Editorial Team…

March 2021: "Grieve"

Offering Support for Pandemic Grief

By tbuegler on September 20, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

How to Start a Church with Three Showers and a Trailer

Pastor Emily Norris had a vision for The Dwelling, a new church she was planting in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. A combined effort of the North Carolina Synod of the ELCA […]

By tbuegler on September 20, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Nine Lessons from a Church Planter Emerging from the Pandemic

by Rev. Michael Baughman Construct a generative culture: I’m convinced that church plants, despite being poorly funded and generally unstable, were better positioned to thrive in the pandemic than most […]

By tbuegler on September 20, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Work to Do: Ministry to Littles During the Pandemic

by Dr. Dawn Rundman Since March of 2020, I have been listening to children, youth and family ministry leaders wrestle with the devastating effects of the pandemic in their congregations, […]

By tbuegler on September 20, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Exchanging Walls for Welcome; A Practical Examination of Relational Intersectionality in the Parish

by Jessica Davis This article was originally published in the Women’s Issue of the Connect Journal in 2018. We invite you to read it again and consider how your community […]

By tbuegler on September 20, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Reflections on Pandemic Ministry

by Rev. Marla Rotman One of the things a person has to do to become a pastor is get over their fear of public speaking. I remember back to when […]

By tbuegler on June 16, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

“What Will It Look Like?” A Ministry Q and A

Ariel Otterstad, Associate PastorLiving Word Lutheran ChurchKaty, Texas Please tell us about your ministry context. I serve a large (for our Synod) congregation in a western suburb of Houston. We have […]

By tbuegler on June 16, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

You Are Enough: Reentering Ministry After a Pandemic

by Elizabeth Hood It is difficult to even put into words the emotions and experiences of this past year, as we survived this pandemic and our rapidly changing world. As […]

By tbuegler on June 16, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Reentry into Children’s Ministry

by Ruth Ideen-Sall It is time for reentry to church for families and children after the interruption of the pandemic. The experiences of the past year have marked all of […]

By tbuegler on June 16, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

Mental Health First Aid: A Course You Might Not Know You Need

Statistics show that mental health has worsened significantly over the pandemic, with cases of depression and anxiety in youth and adults on the rise. In the context of church ministry, […]

By tbuegler on April 2, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

You Gotta Cry Sometimes

by Joe Davis I sat in silence on the edge of my bed,with traffic jam thoughts piling inside of my head,nerves vibrating, tightening like a spider web thread, and I gently […]

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