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Through a special grant, Rev Karl Van Harn, Director of CPE at Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services, is offering an innovative version of CPE to pastors and seminary students.
At the beginning of COVID-19, Andy Crouch wrote about churches preparing for a blizzard, winter, and a mini ice age. Here's a tool to help churches be ready.
It's a muddy time and we should just name it and let go of that image of running fast or any false gods of productivity that we carry.
It’s impossible for me to understand what you’ve experienced in pastoral leadership. But I’m praying you and your family are changed for the better, too.
Join Phil Leo Wednesday, July 22 at 11 a.m. (CT) as he discusses what financially struggling families in your church need to hear.
Dear Pastor, in this moment of widespread loss and grief, could an hour of you talking honestly with your therapist help your congregation more than an hour of you refining your sermon on lament?
Wise leaders understand that complaints are often values statements in disguise.
All around us and within us are the bitter waters of human sin and misery. Many people today still complain to human leadership. But we must remember the One who hears and heals.
Phil Leo and Cindi Riemersma discuss big-picture strategies for protecting your church budget during times of crisis.
We’ve curated a list of excellent reopening resources for churches to help you navigate both the practical and theological aspects of beginning to gather in person again.
Is your church in the middle of a sermon series or getting ready to start a new one? If so, what is the topic?
Many pastors, church staff, and volunteers have gone above and beyond these past few months. Might a heartfelt note be one small way to show your appreciation?
Mark your calendar and plan to join me on Wednesday, June 24 at 11 am (CT) for Preparing for Your Church’s Next Budget Free Fall.
In this season where many churches are adapting in one way or another, perhaps this is an opportunity to take stock: Does your church have more than enough? Or do you need help?
COVID-19 takes its toll on the mental health of pastors when they are robbed of the face-to-face connection on Sundays.
A pastor and a professor encourage ministry leaders to embrace the grief work they may be tempted to neglect. They explain why good grief will help you, your congregation and your theology.
Here are some things church leaders may want to consider in the new season of partially-gathered church.
As regions across the US and Canada begin reopening, what leadership challenges are pastors and councils engaging?
The gap between mission-talk and mission-reality is often wider than we care to admit. As evidence, I submit to you Exhibit A: the church budget.
How a 20-minute group activity can build trust, clarify issues, and unlock creativity.
I'm seeking to find my way through a time of transition. I want to avoid it and just keep going, but I'm sensing God's call to sit in the in between.
It’s tidier to believe God plans everything that happens even if we cannot ever (or at least for now) know why. But maybe we are not supposed to have a tidy theology on such wild and wooly matters.
This resource will help your church ask the right questions as you plan for reopening your in-person children’s ministry.
On May 20, Pastor Church Resources convened a panel not about the logistics of reopening but about the practices and postures that help congregations engage challenging conversations in hopeful ways.
Canadian CRC pastors may be interested in participating in this national survey on COVID-19 being conducted on behalf of the Canadian Council of Christian Charities.