Contacting Churches Part 2: Making the Call
In this blog Dori Dykstra shares her experience of phoning congregations to speak about the ministry of Disability Concerns. This is a helpful tool especially for Regional Disability Advocates.
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In this blog Dori Dykstra shares her experience of phoning congregations to speak about the ministry of Disability Concerns. This is a helpful tool especially for Regional Disability Advocates.
For Regional Disability Advocates, following up with churches is an important part of building and maintaining relationships as you continue supporting churches in being places where everybody belongs and everybody serves!
Often we are changed in and by our relationships with people with disabilities and their families. Consider these videos a glimpse into their lives and an invitation to deepen relationships in your congregation and community.
Through Bates Place, First CRC of Grand Rapids is making strong connections to community. One way to do that has been through a joint community garden project. Local television covered the work.
For Mental Health Awareness Week (Oct 6-12) we encourage your church to develop greater awareness of the one in five people among us who have mental health issues and to consider ways to minister with them.
Check out this video reflecting on what God has been doing over the last 100 years through the ministry of Youth Unlimited.
To tithe or not to tithe? Watch this video where we discuss the biblical teaching of tithing.
Free video resource to show signing for children with well-known children's songs.
If you haven’t yet subscribed to Dwell Digital and would like to learn more, we’ve created a handy video that walks you through some of the features of the new site and highlights improvements.
Barnabas Foundation's Rev. Phil Leo hosts Carolyn Van Allen, CPA, as they share the 5 most common mistakes pastors make on their tax returns.
Kingdom and Cross: these two things are often kept separate. But if the story of Jesus tells us anything, it's that the Kingdom comes through the Cross.
This 3 minute video does a very nice job of explaining and highlighting the what, why, and how of Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) for local congregations.
Is your church holding an offering this year? When you give to NewGround, you are impacting communities across Canada with the love of Christ.
Elizabeth is a long-term care chaplain in Ontario. In this video she shares about her ministry, and how it connected her with Mary, a resident she sees.
Throughout this new video, Emma shows her heart for the hurting as she finds ways to show God’s love to those in bad times.
Pay attention to the wide spectrum of mothering by including this video in your online worship service or by sharing it via social media.
Kids and families around North America may be sheltering in place, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t doing great things. Check out these five stories about real kids doing God’s work in the world during COVID-19.
In this episode, Cross country runner Dally Carlisle lives out his grandfather Edward’s legacy of hard work, Christian faith, and raising livestock on his family’s farm in Gallup, New Mexico.
Learn more about the RISE (Resilience Through Stressful Events) program: a volunteer, peer to peer service for health care workers in need of psychological First Aid, offered by Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Watch this video as Phil Leo hosts Megan Pacheco and Kasia Tunnell, owners of Better Three marketing, discuss the spiritual dimensions of financial struggle.
In this Kids in Action video, seven-year-old Olivia hands out protective masks to people who experience homelessness.
Listen in on Reverend Mandy Smith’s story of learning to boast in weakness and join the conversation as we reimagine how we can minister as, and to, humans.
Listen in as Alida van Dijk, PhD, RP and Major Joseph Kamphuis explore the definition of trauma, its connection to faith, and different methods of facilitating post-traumatic growth.
Listen in as Reverend Mandy Smith leads us in this creative art experiment to practice a posture of rest, receptivity, and response to the Spirit. (*No art experience or skill required.)
Looking for a small group resource? World Renew's Devotional Experience for the World Hunger campaign is a 10-day journey through the Adult Devotional booklet.