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Your Church Needs a Welcome Message – Here’s How to Write It

Your Church Needs a Welcome Message – Here’s How to Write It
Your Church Needs a Welcome Message - Here's How to Write It

When a potential visitor or staff member clicks on a church website, they want to get a sense of the church’s identity. The values, ministries, and staff are probably a few clicks away, but what about your church’s personality, strengths, and heartbeat? The best way to convey the core of who your church family is, is to provide a welcoming message that puts it all in one spot. After reading a welcome message, someone makes the decision, “Yes, I want to visit this church.”

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Why Pastors Struggle to Ask for Help (And How to Get Past It)

Why Pastors Struggle to Ask for Help (And How to Get Past It)

“It took me too long, but I finally decided to get the help I needed.” My first coaching call with this pastor was like so many others. This pastor shouldered the leadership burden without much support for years. Then tensions built in his church, and he could not take the added pressure. Frankly, no one…

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Twenty-Five Percent of Churches Disaffiliated from the United Methodist Church

Twenty-Five Percent of Churches Disaffiliated from the United Methodist Church

The Lewis Center has issued a final report on disaffiliating churches in the United Methodist Church covering 7,631 churches approved by annual conferences for disaffiliation by December 31, 2023. There continue to be more similarities than differences between the cohort of disaffiliating churches and the total pool of United Methodist churches. Disaffiliating churches are disproportionately […]

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Twenty-Five Percent of Churches Disaffiliated from the United Methodist Church

Twenty-Five Percent of Churches Disaffiliated from the United Methodist Church

The Lewis Center has issued a final report on disaffiliating churches in the United Methodist Church covering 7,631 churches approved by annual conferences for disaffiliation by December 31, 2023. There continue to be more similarities than differences between the cohort of disaffiliating churches and the total pool of United Methodist churches. Disaffiliating churches are disproportionately […]

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Some Questions for Further Research from the Disaffiliation Process

Some Questions for Further Research from the Disaffiliation Process

The recent disaffiliation process in the United Methodist Church leaves in its wake grief, hope, and many unanswered questions regarding the impact of prior unifications, the impact of clergy and judicatory leaders in the process, and the various motivations for disaffiliation. Lovett H. Weems of the Lewis Center staff raises some of these significant questions […]

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The post Some Questions for Further Research from the Disaffiliation Process appeared first on Lewis Center for Church Leadership.

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Some Questions for Further Research from the Disaffiliation Process

Some Questions for Further Research from the Disaffiliation Process

The recent disaffiliation process in the United Methodist Church leaves in its wake grief, hope, and many unanswered questions regarding the impact of prior unifications, the impact of clergy and judicatory leaders in the process, and the various motivations for disaffiliation. Lovett H. Weems of the Lewis Center staff raises some of these significant questions […]

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