What's your ministry resolve for 2022?

keep our regular rehearsal time  as a sacred time Resolved for 2022: Personal connection with every volunteer by Kevin Bogan We immediately made plans to be in contact with our musicians through social media platforms including Zoom and Teams. This group of people had significant issues with social media of any kind. I had never used Zoom, but I knew we had to figure it out to keep us as “together” as much as possible. It was important for us to gather weekly at the same time as our rehearsals, for several reasons. READ MORE Lean into the new thing Resolved for 2022: Lean forward by Kyle Meier I’m not ready for 2022, because I’ve not finished grieving. Due to this pandemic, our congregation not only lost momentum but significant elements of our identity. Like many churches, we are worshipping only one-half to two-thirds of what we were experiencing prior to COVID. Some are still connected online. However, many others are just gone. Essential pieces of our church family disappeared. No goodbye. No email to say their faith had been drifting. Nothing. READ MORE one more wilderness journey Resolved for 2022: Help people come back by Paul Purdue As we close out 2021, even with the hope brought by vaccines, we are still journeying together through unknown space. By remembering that God journeyed with our spiritual ancestors through many wildernesses, we are remided that somehow we will emerge from this hard season and be alright. READ MORE The mystery continues, no explanations Preaching help for 1/2/22 or Epiphany  by James C Howell Ellen Davis (in Preaching the Luminous Word) noticed that the Church of All Nations next to the Garden of Gethsemane in Jerusalem has a sign that sternly warns, “No explanations in the church.” That’s directed to the tour guides, of course. But as Ellen muses, "We in the church have been baptized into the mystery of Christ; ... a mystery that infinitely exceeds our understanding, a mystery of mercy that goes beyond even our wildest hopes and imaginings. So no explanations in the church; rather, let us speak softly and with wonder, as befits a holy place.” READ MORE Watchnight New Year's Eve Who Are These Remarkable Children? December 26, 2021 Learn how to start marketing your church Sermon Options January 2 2022 Browse our selection of books in preaching, worship, ministry leadership, and church & culture. Get 2022 Annuals while supplies last Making all things  new in  2022! Try this study for Lent 2022

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