Archive for the ‘Leadership’ Category
Leadership Journal on the importance of the benediction
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
from Leadership Journal: … “When you stretched out your arms and sang a song of blessing over us,” she said, “I was moved to tears. You weren’t just sending us out to face the world on our own; you were pouring out God’s blessing and Spirit on us so that we would be better prepared [...]
Tags: benediction, blessing, pastors, z00001
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Presenter Previews: Erik Carter and Barbara Newman at Symposium 2009
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
Among over 70 presenters at this year’s Calvin Symposium on Worship will be two leading voices on including persons with disabilities in worshiping communities. Erik Carter is assistant professor of special education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and author of Including People with Disabilities in Faith Communities: A Guide for Service Providers, Families, and Congregations. [...]
Tags: communities, congregations, disabilities, prespreviews09
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Alban Weekly: 'Who Locked the Gates?'
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
From Alban Weekly: Over the years I have heard countless painful stories about how people new to a congregation couldn’t get through the “gates” of the church—those implicit codes and requirements that those of us “inside” the church unwittingly embody and construct as barriers toward them. These include unspoken dress codes, being made to feel [...]
Tags: community, congregations, evangelism, hospitality, outreach
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Presenter Previews: Mark Yaconelli at Symposium 2009
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Among over 70 presenters at this year’s Calvin Symposium on Worship will be Mark Yaconelli, director of the Youth Ministry and Spirituality Project at San Francisco Theological Seminary, and author of Contemplative Youth Ministry: Practicing the Presence of Jesus. Yaconelli will be leading a daylong seminar on Thursday on ‘Youth, Worship, and the Seven-Second Attention [...]
Tags: ministry, prespreviews09, spiritualformation, sympos09, youth
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Alban Weekly on prayer in board meetings
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Here‘s an excellent article from Alban Weekly pointing out that prayer should be a vital practice in gatherings of church leaders—rather than just a parliamentary procedure. It’s adapted from the book Transforming Church Boards into Communities of Spiritual Leaders. I often hear the term book-end prayers used to refer to the perfunctory way in which [...]
Tags: meetings, prayer, spiritualformation
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Alban Weekly on the importance of place
Friday, December 19th, 2008
From Alban Weekly: Congregations are born from a generative spark of interaction between stories of faith and stories of place. … I have come to believe that ‘Where am I?’ and ‘What is happening here?’ are among the most profound questions congregational leaders can ask. This vocabulary of place or location is often used metaphorically [...]
Tags: congregations, culture
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GR Press on Stockbridge Boiler Room community facing zoning issues
Thursday, December 4th, 2008
We saw this story in our local paper last weekend, featuring Symposium 2009 presenters Jenn and Tony Tendero: A prayer group that meets in a three-stall garage on the city’s West Side has run afoul of officials in the city’s Planning Department. They have asked the Stockbridge Boiler Room to apply for a special land-use [...]
Tags: communities, congregations, News, prayer
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Visit to Diocese of Grand Rapids
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Today our staff visited the beautiful new headquarters of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Grand Rapids, where Patricia Hughes, director of the Office for Worship, hosted us with gracious hospitality—complete with a welcome cake! Patty spoke about the work of the diocese and her experiences in talking about worship renewal with various parishes. We ended [...]
Tags: congregations
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Alban Weekly on 'Redeeming Church Scutwork'
Monday, December 1st, 2008
from Alban Weekly: “Sorry, I can’t go. I’m snowed under. ‘Scutwork,’ you know,” a fellow pastor told me when I invited him to lunch. … I knew what he meant by “scutwork.” It’s a euphemism from Navy parlance for garbage. It’s the unwanted part of work—for leaders in congregations usually the organization and administration of [...]
Tags: congregations
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Being the Church During Election Week
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
Pardon the preacher on the Sundays before and after Election Day: she must neither piously distance herself from the public square nor serve a particular cause or party. Which leaves … what, exactly? John Witvliet starts to navigate these rocky waters in a recent column in Reformed Worship: As I approach these questions, I am [...]
Tags: News, politics
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