Leading a local church at any season is clearly hard. Sometimes Summers are harder, with lower attendance, the temptation to become lax with ministry (and go outside to have fun!), anxieties about expectations for the Autumn start. Ministry in general tends to funnel leaders towards isolation, and whether it’s Summer or not, isolation leads to … Read More
We are continuing our series on the importance of taking time to pause and do a church health checkup by looking at your local church body’s vital signs. This is based on the principle that it is healthy churches that grow. You can click here to read the first article in the series for more on that … Read More
In my last article, I encouraged churches to take the time this Summer to pause and do a checkup on your local church body’s vital signs based on the principle that healthy churches are the ones that grow. In Anglican Revitalization Ministries (ARM), we define those vital signs using the acrostic VITAL: Over the next several … Read More
Do you remember having to get annual physicals growing up or taking your kids to get them every year for school sports? It was just a part of life. You needed it to make sure you were healthy enough to participate. Or maybe now, like me, you can relate to going in for annual checkups … Read More
Photo by Sincerely Media on Unsplash I became a first-time rector of a local Episcopal Church (TEC) in August of 2003. For those of you who came into the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) having come out of TEC, that month and year might mean something. That was the month that Bishop Gene Robinson, … Read More
