From the President, March 2018

What’s the Special Something? In Leading Change in the Congregation, author Gilbert Rendle shares an anecdote about a planning session he conducted for a mid-sized church. For the session, church staff put together graphs showing membership size and average attendance...

From the President, February 2018

Creating Space for Change In Leading Change in the Congregation, author Gilbert Rendle explains what he calls the emotional roller coaster cycle of change. He points out that folks usually respond to impending change with some initial level of excitement and...

From the President, January 2018

What’s in a Mission: Applying the Toolkit We have a new Mission! On December 3, our congregation voted unanimously that our faith community is: Leading compassionate lives through spiritual growth and just action. That sentence sums up the ideals and values of our...

From the President, December 2017

Decision Point: Mission Renewal Last December, I wrote for the Voice: At the [Developmental Ministry] Startup Event, we learned one thing immediately: our church needs to renew our mission. We need to identify our faith community’s job in the world. That work will...