Leadership
Closed for Christmas
December 21, 2005 12:36 PM There has been much discussion about the decision by some megachurches not to hold services on Christmas Day (which also happens to be a Sunday). The following article was reproduced in leadership’s weekly news, and raises a number of significant theological and pastoral questions. Is it the spectre of consumerism […]
Don’t mess with my music
Uncle Joe wants ‘Onward Christian Soldiers’ in the hymnal. Brittany would like a jazz band in worship. They’re probably both members of your congregation. By Sheldon Sorge The struggle between competing worship forms is as old as the story of Cain and Abel. But the stakes and pitch of the argument seem higher than ever, […]
50 ways to honor your clergywoman
Dec. 6, 2005 A UMNS Report By Linda Bloom* Take a clergywoman to lunch. Or honor her with flowers on the altar, create a scholarship in her name, invite her to preach at your church. These are some of the 50 suggestions offered on a poster marking “50 Ways to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of […]
Our Preaching Past
December 5, 2005 Our Preaching Past One of the great assets of the North Alabama Conference is our history. Alabama has been the epicenter for some of the most notable movements in our nation’s past. Our church, at its best, has led in those movements; our church, at its worst, has been slow to see […]
Learning To Love The Local
With fewer places to hide than in the ‘burbs, rural ministry offers so many bridges for communication, for we can enjoy a community profile that is offered to few of our inner-city or suburban cousins. As I began yesterday’s message our congregation affirmed many of these bridges: neighbours, schools, work, business, shopping, clubs, sports, community […]
Local ministry
Local ministry (from another rural pastor): Friends! “Amen” to the comments re local ministry. I am just reading the Mitford series of stories about an Episcopal Minister set in a village in the mountains of North Carolina. There are nine volumes written by Jan Koran. A marvellous yarn of pastoral ministry with a local flavour […]
Learning To Love The Local – a response
Learning To Love The Local: a response from a rural pastor You’re right, Rowland. I like it – it speaks truly. Agatha Christie’s detective Miss Marple is able to solve her crimes because every situation is parallelled in some form or other in her home village; the in-depth study of her home village has taught […]
Learning To Love The Local
November 21, 2005 Be Where You Are or Learning To Love The Local We United Methodists like to brag that we have more churches than the US has post offices. That means that we have many churches in very small places. American Protestantism has been and, to a remarkable degree continues to be a rural […]
Resources on Church Planting
Recommended Resources on Church Planting Search “Church Planting” on google, and you will come up with over three million references and resources! Hence the importance to be connected with people who are actually doing planting. When it comes time to research, some of the most useful sites are listed below. These have been recommended by […]
Leadership
November 14, 2005 Pastoral Leadership as Adaptive Work When Mark Twain was learning how to be a pilot on the Mississippi, his tough, experienced teacher told him that he must master “the shape of the river,” the river that is constantly changing, the river that looks so different in the daylight than in the dark: […]
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