Love your neighbor AS YOURSELF
Sometimes the best pastoral care we can do is to take care of ourselves. It's one more aspect where we must find balance in order to be healthy. How do you balance caring for yourself with caring for others? Hopefully this article will help frame the conversation in our lives.
https://relevantmagazine.com/article/self-care-doesnt-mean-self-centered/
Youth Ministry During Lent
Drawing students to deeper spiritual practices many times just requires an invitation. Finding what you are specifically calling students to can be the difficult part. Perhaps this article will help frame your thoughts for your ministry during this season or next.
A Good Reminder to Train Your Volunteers for Big Sundays
Easter, Mother's Day, and Christmas are typically the three days in a the year with the largest number of guests in a church service. It would make sense that well before these days we take a focused look at who is volunteering and how we help them create a more welcoming setting. Perhaps this article will give us some ideas as to how to prepare for these days of possible larger numbers of visitors.
https://openblog.life.church/create-a-welcoming-environment-this-easter/
Two things that make your church a home
In our consumer minded culture, here's an article to help us think about integration into the life of the church. We'd be really interested to hear your thoughts!
https://relevantmagazine.com/article/how-to-not-be-just-a-consumer-at-church/