by Don Harvey | Jun 18, 2019 | healthy congregation
I had the privilege of volunteering in a local elementary school in its drug awareness and violence prevention program. The fourth graders were quick to identify behaviors that victimized others; we talked at length about bullying in the school and identified...
by Sarah WIlson | Jan 3, 2019 | healthy congregation, healthy ministry
Several years ago, we tried something radical on Wednesday evenings at our church. Over the course of five weeks, we had prayer meeting. This was not simply the hospital list prayer meeting, this was honest prayer. One hour of prayer, five weeks in a row. Each week we...
by Phill Martin | Nov 13, 2018 | healthy congregation
#MeToo, a social media movement that began in November 2017, has ignited awareness of and accountability for sexual harassment. This new awareness of the abuse of power will hopefully cause all of us to pause and think about the congregation’s response. The reality of...
by Phill Martin | Jul 10, 2018 | healthy congregation
“Healthy organizations need healthy staff teams”. Sounds right, I guess. Is it true that all successful organizations, in fact, have a healthy leadership team? Short of a comprehensive assessment of health indicators, it might be difficult to predict organizational...
by Joel Snider | Mar 6, 2018 | healthy congregation, Uncategorized
In I Samuel 24-28, we read about a major set of events in David’s relationship with King Saul. It was a rocky relationship at best. Saul’s roller-coaster personality did not lend itself to stable interactions, particularly with someone he found as...
by Bill Owen | Aug 22, 2017 | healthy congregation
Church people talk. They talk about all kinds of things. They talk about the pastor, her sermon, how many people used to be in worship, and what we ought to be doing but haven’t yet. This kind of talk can be threatening to a pastor, but it doesn’t have to be. Having...
