St. George’s on St. Charles Avenue What if they don’t come back? The connection cards are on your desk. Someone on staff has formatted a spreadsheet. You’ve been told there’s a 48-hour window — that this is when the harvest happens, when the people who showed up on Easter Sunday
How to Help Members Feel Like They Belong Joining your church does not automatically make someone feel like they belong. People need more than their name on a membership roll. They need to feel welcomed, wanted, recognized, affirmed, and celebrated. They need to feel special. When a church is small,
Maurine It was a beautiful fall day in 1894. The Manti Temple looked glorious as the morning light almost gave it a heavenly glow. My handsome, six-foot-four-inch, twenty-five-year-old Grandfather, Peter Daniel Jensen was there to meet and marry his beautiful twenty-year-old bride, Sarah Jane Rees. Family was gathered and it
The Nones Project: What Do They Believe? Ryan Burge shares a number of the findings of the Making Meaning in a Post-Religious America project’s survey. From church to crystals: One study shows interest in magic as religion declines Baylor University scholar Paul Froese said the findings may reflect a greater
Religious Change in America: They Buried the Lead The North American mission feld has changed. We still learning how much. The 3 Phases of Church-Planting Churches It seems for the last four decades or so, church communities have been talking about planting other churches. But much of that time was