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Loving on Our Ministry-Team Neighbors: Stories From the Field
Listen to six stories of what it’s like to love on and be loved by ministry-team neighbors from around the denomination.
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July 7, 2020
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A Stranger Barged In
Do we share our love easily with someone different from us? We pride ourselves on maintaining a status quo of acceptable friends, but what about others in various difficult situations?
April 16, 2020
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From Desperation To Hope
It’s important as churches and pastors to be prepared for very unexpected situations. Here's one story that illustrates this.
March 3, 2020
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Is Your Church Directory on Your Smartphone?
The DIRECTORY function in The Bridge App can help to connect your church's members, and the photo feature is a great way to make new members feel at home.
May 1, 2019
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Getting off to a Great Start: Welcoming Your New Pastor
An elder's email question turns into a conversation at Pastor Church Resources about churches that receive new pastors.
June 14, 2017
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Continue Welcoming Refugees With a Faithful Budget
Despite the United States’ strong legacy of humanitarianism and refugee resettlement, it is poised to offer its weakest response in nearly a century.
April 21, 2017
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Did You Mean These Neighbours, Jesus?
We might not know our neighbours or even like our neighbours, but we need to hear God’s call and allow it to guide our faith and actions to love our neighbours on the streets, in schools, at work, and in our churches.
March 27, 2017
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Visitation Brings Hope and Life
I remember the turning point for Larry’s new faith journey. He had witnessed a model of service that was new to him—a church that showed it cared about those who are afflicted.
October 10, 2016
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A Lesson in Hospitality From My Visit to First Zion Baptist Church
While on vacation in South Carolina, my wife and I worshiped at First Zion Baptist Church. And though it was immediately clear that we were visitors in a strange land, this little church with a big heart welcomed us. . .
September 28, 2016
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Belonging
Several years back, a middle-aged couple in our church told me: “We’ve been members here for 12 years and we still feel like outsiders.”
June 14, 2016
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Kathy's Question: "Why Do You Hate Me?"
I was struck dumb, my mind racing. What had I done or said to evoke such a question? I don’t remember how the conversation concluded. But I do remember its impact on me.
May 4, 2016
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Haunted by Grace
Two years ago I heard a young woman say, “I long to be part of a church that smells like Jesus.” Her longing forced me to stand in front of the mirror of self-reflection.
February 29, 2016
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A Gracious Welcome
This welcome statement challenges me to reconsider whether there are people I’ve labeled as beyond God’s reach and therefore not truly welcome to worship...
March 31, 2015
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MOSAIC at New Westminster CRC
Our congregation’s MOSAIC ministry began with a simple dinner invitation. We hosted 3 visiting Chinese scholars, and 2 Indian students. What a joy it was to learn of each other’s culture...
November 3, 2014
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A Case for Hospitality
The Apostle Paul was all in favor of hospitality. But his reasons for urging believers to be hospitable were visionary. He uses Romans 12 to tell people how to express it in their daily lives.
July 24, 2014
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Table for One
I stood there all by my lonesome. I stood there for a little bit too. Being about 6 foot 5 and that night wearing a very bright Hawaiian shirt and blue jeans, I couldn’t be missed. But I seemed to have been forgotten...
June 19, 2014
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Diaspora Ministry
Approximately three percent of the earth’s population is living in a country or setting that is different from the one in which they were born. Many of these people have never heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ.