Hospitality
We all claim we are friendly, hospitable churches but it’s the newcomer who can tell us the truth.
Authorkarenhorst
Crossing Generations
Let’s plan to be radically countercultural in how we encourage faith development. Let’s cross the generations as we learn and grow together so that seniors, millennials, children and youth teach and learn from one another. Hardly radical, you say? I believe it is.
Our Beloved Buildings
Does your church building match your mission goals?
Clergy Burn Out
More than 20,000 clergy left the ministry in 2010 alone in the U.S., and according to a survey done by the Francis Schaeffer Institute, 71 per cent of pastors serving churches today are burned out and battling depression and fatigue.
Listening and Learning
It is like speaking the truth with your right hand on the Bible when you hold the feather. In a round circle at Kenora Fellowship Centre, Marvin shared his challenges.
Questions of Justice and Truth
We can celebrate that women have come a long way, but we still have major work to do. Full equality and justice
for women are still a long way off, especially when we glance at the world globally
Faith That Sticks
In spite of the finest scholars involved and the best pedagogy going, our churches are not filled with students who came through the system. You may have had a bursting church school back in the ‘60s, but the majority of these now grown up participants no longer go to church.