This time of year, we’re all susceptible to getting caught up in the hubbub of church events, get-togethers with family and friends, shopping, cooking, and countless other tasks. In our busyness, it.

Fairly new to the mainstream church—and very attractive to the Millennial generation—is the concept of missional communities. Distinct from a community or small group, a missional community is (ac.

People giving to church has declined. Everyone knows it. And the stats seem to back it up. In his thoroughly researched book, The Great Evangelical Recession, John S. Dickerson wrote, “Donations.

The word “gratitude” first showed up in the mid-fifteenth century. Adapted from the Latin word gratitudinem, which means “thankfulness,” gratitude came to express deep, reciprocal appreciation.

Would you like to bring more enthusiasm and participation to your church’s volunteer programs? Do you struggle to find ways to get more people involved or to get a greater commitment from those alre.

I have benefited from extraordinarily generous people in my life. I didn't realize quite how many until I needed to depend on them, just last year. When the small startup I had been with for a year.