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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 March 1, 2010, 2:09 pm
Topics: Administration
A name is mentioned. There is a collective hesitation. No one really wishes to speak. To open a conversation is to open the story of a mixed past.
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Posted on January 26, 2010, 2:46 pm
Topics: Administration
This sample letter can be used by an elder to assess the gifts of church members and their willingness for participation and involvement in caring for other members within their district
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Posted on January 26, 2010, 2:37 pm
Topics: Administration
Sample form for record keeping of elder's visits to church members. This is designed to be used as subsequent pages after Elder Visitation Record. Use with appropriate caution and discernment regarding confidentiality and privacy laws.
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Posted on January 26, 2010, 4:40 am
Topics: Administration
Sample form for record keeping of elder's visits to church members. This is designed ot be used as the first page of an elder's visitation log of visits to a church member. For subsequent pages, use the Elder Visitation Record page 2. Use with appropriate caution and discernment regarding confidentiality and privacy laws.
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Posted on January 25, 2010, 4:29 pm
Topics: Administration
We keep records to be accountable and to remember. The question is what needs to be recorded and for what purpose.
Not so long ago, a clerk of council had to go through the records of the church to find out some information about a decision made a long time ago. Along the way, he read many more minutes than anyone would wish...
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Posted on January 25, 2010, 1:48 pm | 1 comment
Topics: Administration
At a council meeting, we were talking about communicating a particular concern and decision to the congregation. That’s where it began. The ones who were dealing with the youth suggested that we put in on facebook. The ones with email thought that was adequate. The luddites suggested that the mailslots in the church were adequate. Everyone agreed that just putting it in the bulletin was inadequate: it is never read well enough.
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Posted on January 22, 2010, 7:56 pm
Topics: Administration
We offer the following characteristics of healthy churches that are seen in the biblical history of God’s people.
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