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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
A Note from the Editorial Team…
Grace and peace! We have all been living in this “in between” time for the last year. It isn’t what it was, and it’s not what it will be, and […]
Offering Support for Pandemic Grief
by Joy Hensel On the Road to Emmaus Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus about seven miles from Jerusalem and talking […]
Grief, Loss and Care Through a Pandemic
by Mark Jackson A few weeks into the pandemic, I received the call no youth leader wants to get: “One of our teens died in a car accident last night. […]
Hearing BIPOC Young People During Times of Crisis
An Interview with Rev. Priscilla Paris-Austin: Connect Journal: We’ve been living in a pandemic for over a year, accompanied by uprisings, protests, and heightened awareness of and actions against systemic […]
Technology and the Power to Reshape
by Rev. Angela Denker I’ve always been a big fan of integrating technology into my ministry. During my pastoral internship in Las Vegas, our church livestreamed all five worship services, […]
Ministry in the Time of a Pandemic
by Anna Madsen. The joke about, and in, my family is that we are the Vortex of Chaos. Clearly, and utterly unrelatedly, it would make an awesome name for a […]
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