Community Engagement

Our churches are in the midst of some challenging conversations. How can we address important matters while also staying focused on loving our neighbors?

February is Random Acts of Kindness Month! Here are 30 ideas to share kindness with your neighbors. 

What if there was a simple litmus test that could help churches determine which outreach events and programs to keep, discontinue, or update? Here's one question that can help.

Chaos brings with it great distraction from our calling, but Jesus is clear about how his disciples should act in apocalyptic seasons of life.

There have been many hiccups these past few months that have disrupted our plans and ideas of where we as a church and denomination need to go. But maybe God is writing a new story?

How can we share the message of hope and love in Jesus Christ? Maybe it’s through our longtime traditions, or maybe it’s in new ways?

Sometimes the impact of our actions lies in what we leave behind. 

In Western Canada, the pandemic shut the door on indoor gatherings and outreach events, so community gardens became places where church members and neighbors could meet and experience the love of Christ. 

But have Christians made it believable? Critics contend that Christianity and in particular Calvinism promotes tribalism and tribalistic behavior.

Not long after headstones in a Jewish cemetery were vandalized, two women who aren’t Jewish and live in the neighborhood showed up with buckets of water, soap, sponges and cleaned the graves.