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Organizational Leadership
The College for Bishops Leadership Institute was established to provide educational resources for new bishops as well as trending information resources for all bishops. Organizational Leadership focuses on specific resources related to essential leadership skills:
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Problem Solving
on the other side of the “groan zone”
Technology of Participation, a set of structured processes for group facilitation, originally developed in an intentional Christian community responding to race inequity and social injustice in the 1960's. Today, these methods are being rediscovered as we seek to generate new thinking, imagination and energy, bringing together voices from the margins to respond to the Spirit at work in the world in community.
How a network of Chicago churches is helping erase $5 million in medical debt
This fall, nearly 6,000 families received letters wishing them “a beautiful, wonderful holiday” and telling them their debt had been forgiven. While recipients might never enter the doors of the partnering congregations, which were listed in the letter, the churches erased their debt as an expression of God’s love.
How to Hunt Down the Elusive Church Communication Budget
A church communication budget is a bit like a Sasquatch—you hear they exist and you hope they are going to be really big when you see one. Unfortunately, like this elusive creature, despite being hunted down across the globe, church communication budgets are pretty much non-existent. Many churches still don’t see communication as a true ministry. The reality is that supporting and budgeting your communication ministry is paramount to successful outreach, engagement and the biggest overall goal—spreading the Word and love of Jesus Christ.
A network of black farmers and black churches delivers fresh food from soil to sanctuary
The nonprofit Black Church Food Security Network helps congregations establish gardens and farmers markets on church-owned land. It also connects them with black-owned farms and urban growers throughout the mid-Atlantic, creating “pipelines for fresh produce from ‘soil to sanctuary.’”
“It’s All About the Building”
How can congregations imaginatively use their space? This podcast episode from the Lewis Center for Church Leadership features a conversation with Bob Jaeger, president of Partners for Sacred Places, about re-imagining the space in your church building.
Rural Churches Can Thrive Beyond Numbers
Pastors are often led to believe that success in their congregations is contingent upon increasing worship attendance; however,in many small-church contexts, numerical growth is next to impossible. But that doesn’t mean that the pastors or the congregations are failures. This article is from Faith & Leadership.