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Posted on August 29, 2011, 11:20 am | 6 comments
Topics: Network Buzz, Financial Management
As we sat at a table in the Worship Center with the countdown to worship on the Power Point, I was excited to worship. The music was led well and then the message started with a You Tube video entitled God’s Pie. Once again I was reminded that God uses money and possessions as a test of our faith and trust in Him alone.
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Posted on August 22, 2011, 9:06 am | 2 comments
Topics: Web
Who doesn't love a good deal? There's that shirt you found hidden on the clearance rack or the coupon you used at the restaurant for dinner. In the same way your church can get deals on technology services and software. Is your church taking full advantage of all the available discounts and freebies that it can?
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Posted on April 4, 2011, 4:40 pm | 3 comments
Topics: Deacons
God seems to be offering our congregation a remarkable set of exciting opportunities in the past year. It's certainly not that we've been working so hard to cultivate this particular set of events!
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Posted on March 28, 2011, 5:20 pm | 1 comment
Topics: Deacons
Want a handy way to run a pre-flight check before serving as a deacon? Want to start a good discussion with fellow deacons? Want to have a discussion at deacons' meeting about "how we're doing"? Here are a few thought-provoking questions!
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Posted on March 21, 2011, 3:23 pm
Topics: Deacons
When we relate the Jesus stories to our economic behavior, we do not find obvious and easy applications. And so we act as a community of discernment - testing our answers and our applications together. We need each other for this vital task.
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Posted on January 31, 2011, 3:54 pm
Topics: Deacons
So what should deacons be talking about in their meetings? Here’s a list of some key topics that will help deacons give leadership in making sure the congregation stays fresh.
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Posted on December 16, 2010, 9:51 pm | 1 comment
Topics: Leadership
My kids and wife hardly give me stuff anymore, regardless of the occasion. Around Christmas, birthdays, and Father’s Day, they once paid close attention to the perpetual gross list I’d stick over family pictures disguising the refrigerator: “Two of everything.” (A Mennonite friend calls that my “Noah List”—but I never wanted even one cat.)
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Posted on October 18, 2010, 5:10 pm | 2 comments
Topics: Financial Management
Did you know that each adult church member in the CRC is asked to contribute a base amount of $307.53 in 2010 for denominational ministries? If you were looking at this as a consumer asking "what you get" for this contribution, you would see that you are contributing:
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Posted on October 4, 2010, 5:06 pm | 1 comment
Topics: Deacons
A few weeks ago, Herm confided in Deacon Henk about the foreclosure notice he'd received. It's been a tough few weeks and Herm needs a bit of strong friendship! "I wish me and the wife could talk about doughnuts and weight. Seems like we don't talk at all, or we're fussin' at each other about money."
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Posted on September 14, 2010, 2:44 pm | 2 comments
Topics: Deacons
In the past two years’ flurry of news headlines about the world’s financial meltdown, little attention was given to the work of deacons in the church. But their work is exactly what our world needs. In many ways the meltdown was caused by a lack of biblical imagination about what money is, and how it should be used (and not used). In their intervention and prevention work, deacons offer exactly the ministry and message our world needs...
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Posted on September 13, 2010, 3:44 pm | 2 comments
Topics: Administration
Our use of money is one place where our spirituality gets incarnated. Spirituality in our imagination is rather high-minded, mystical, and holy. But money matters seem stressful, mundane, practical and –in these days of recession – discouraging.
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Posted on August 25, 2010, 10:45 am | 1 comment
Topics: Facility
Here are basic suggestions for a church which is approached about leasing space for a cell tower or antenna.
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Posted on August 23, 2010, 8:41 am
Topics: Stewardship
“Herm, the deacons have been talking about starting a learning and discussion group about family finances. Your call makes me think we should do something and not just talk...
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Posted on August 3, 2010, 10:30 am
Topics: Getting Started
Some questions just sit quietly in the back of our minds and influence our behaviors
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Posted on April 6, 2010, 9:20 am
Topics: Getting Started
The office of deacon is a unique and divine calling within the church. Although you were chosen by members of your church, you have been called and appointed by God himself to this role. The Christian Reformed Church regards the office of deacon as being of equal standing with the offices of elder and pastor. Although serving...
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