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Community Outreach Part 3 - Partnerships A few months ago I was asked to lead a Leadership Training event on Community Outreach. I led an hour long zoom meeting, and then we opened it up for a Q&A. I’ve broken down the highlights of that leadership training event into three separate blog posts to cover the important pieces. As we begin, let’s remember the one sentence answer to the question of Community Outreach: The key to effective community outreach is to understand tha

A few months ago I was asked to lead a Leadership Training event on Community Outreach. I led an hour long zoom meeting, and then we opened it up for a Q&A. I’ve broken down the highlights of that leadership training event into three separate blog posts to cover the important pieces. This is part 2 – The Mentality. As we begin, let’s remember the one sentence answer to the question of Community Outreach. The key to effective community outreach is to understand that all outrea

A few months ago I was asked to lead a Leadership Training event on Community Outreach. I led an hour long zoom meeting, and then we opened it up for a Q&A. I’ve broken down the highlights of that leadership training event into three separate blog posts to cover the important pieces. This post centers on Community Outreach for a Church – specifically, how do you structure your outreach ministries so that both the community and the church benefit – like a symbiotic relation

Pastor’s Bookshelf - Welcome to my bookshelf! Each month I will discuss a recent book that I’ve finished. *disclaimer; I don’t always have time to sit and read physical books, but I do quite a bit of my reading through audiobooks these days.* This month I’d like to talk about The Making Of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr In the same vein as “Jesus and John Wayne” (which I reviewed a few months back) – The Making Of Biblical Womanhood is a fantastic work of historic

Newsletter – February, 2022 Greetings from the desk of the Pastor! What an incredibly challenging year this has been! We are only a month in, but it has been a very intense few weeks. I made a joke a few weeks ago that I wonder if we will get varsity letter jackets as we head into junior year of the pandemic. Anytime I’m feeling overwhelmed in life, I often turn to the Psalms. The whole book is a collection of Poetry, various poets (mostly King David) crying out to God for h