Post-Synod: How Do We Go From Here?
How you and your church can hold grace and truth while you discern and decide what’s next.
How you and your church can hold grace and truth while you discern and decide what’s next.
As the agenda for Synod 2022 grows, don’t forget that the discernment and decision-making of your local church is just as important.
With significant decisions taking place on issues like the Human Sexuality Report and the Canada/US relationship, are your chief decision-makers listening well enough to God and others?
Learn more about how best to discern, avert or facilitate a pastor’s release from call.
More pastors than ever are requesting leaves of absence as they navigate trauma, loss and mental health challenges. How can your council prepare?
More pastors than ever are requesting leaves of absence as they navigate trauma, loss and mental health challenges. How can your council prepare?
With the complex and consequential decisions Synod 2022 will face, wise leaders must manage the polarity of ensuring good process and arriving at good outcomes.
Between the departure of your former pastor and the arrival of your next, what options are available for CRCs looking for interim ministers?
How can our church find an interim minister to serve our congregation?
Three simple practices to help your council make better decisions.
The way we treat each other while we make decisions is just as important to our witness as the decision itself.
Too often at church meetings, corporate prayer feels perfunctory; personal scripture study is assumed; and the spiritual formation of fellow office-bearers is an afterthought to deliberations.
With so many challenging and divisive issues facing our churches, from COVID procedures to human sexuality and politics, we offer three easy steps to make worse decisions.
A guide for raising substantial concerns to your church's leadership.
A 176 page report is not something you can merely "agree" or "disagree" with. It's far too complex. How can we engage beyond the headline?
Debate can bring clarity to the issues we face. But how do we hear the insights of the 90% too reserved to jump into the fray?
Sermons and statements are insufficient to shape Christian faithfulness in the area of human sexuality. We need to study, talk, pray, and discern together.
A summary of key learnings from the 2020 survey of newly-ordained ministers' experiences being mentored.
The stress of ministry during COVID is leading good pastors to consider leaving ministry altogether. They're burned out and exhausted. Here's how your council could help.
When we have hard conversations, it's easy to get stuck. Good process can help keep groups focused on moving forward with the important stuff.
Making a difference in people’s lives is a big part of what motivates CRC pastors. What happens when a pandemic strikes and you begin to suspect you haven’t made much of a difference after all?
I have strong beliefs about many of the issues addressed in the study report. I assume you do, too. What can it look like, practically, to live into Paul’s instructions to a church divided this way?
The calling process can be lengthy for pastors. Yet, after many interviews and meetings, some pastors realize most of what they know of the church comes from just a handful of members. That’s not enough.
Swiftly changing pandemic circumstances forced many CRC pastors into a pace of decision-making that stretched them out of their comfort zone. Here’s why that might be and what you might do about it.
Since early in the days of COVID-19, a group of pastors in Classis BC Southeast has met every other week over Zoom to trouble-shoot challenges and encourage creativity in faithful ministry.