Five Ways to Engage

Five Ways to Engage

In this post-pandemic era, congregations have decided that online services are here to stay. However, just having an online service is not enough to guarantee engagement from your members. Here are our recommendations for the five best ways to increase participation in your church’s online worship services. Promoting your online services on social media, making…

Lakelands in the News

Lakelands in the News

HANFORD, Calif. (FOX26) — The sign outside St. James Lutheran Church still advertises the final celebration service here as February 27th at 10 a.m. Before she was a pastor, the Reverend Julie Kelly worked as a chaplain helping transition those who have suffered a loss of death in their family. Now she’s helping those members of…

A Schism and Nobody Came: what may come of the UMC split

A Schism and Nobody Came: what may come of the UMC split

In his recent Religion News Service article, Jacob Lupfer writes about the divisions in the United Methodist Church, “In any ecclesial conflict there are non-combatants who don’t really understand what all the fighting is about. But in this case particularly, the muddling Methodist middle that has historically tempered the impulses of extremists is indifferent to…

Separation of Church and Social Media

This week Curtis Ramsey-Lucas published a provocative article in The Christian Citizen asking important questions about Facebook’s outreach to faith leaders. He begins: This summer, Elizabeth Dias, who covers faith and politics for the New York Times, wrote an article titled “Facebook’s Next Target: The Religious Experience.” Published July 25, it chronicled Facebook’s efforts to partner with…

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