Churches large and small are trying to figure out how best to use technology to support their mission in their communities. There’s nothing terribly new
The breakaway group at Christ Church, Savannah, GA, will return possession of the church to the Episcopal diocese and its local congregation at noon December 12th.
Last week’s chat focused on professional and personal boundaries in social media. I mentioned how when I left a congregation as vicar, I would “unfriend” parishioners on my Facebook page. “When you leave, you leave,” I tweeted. Not everyone agrees.
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The large church provides an arena in which a person seeking to be unknown can be present and participate in worship and education without compromising anonymity. Larger congregations can also meet the intimacy needs of individuals through small-group educational, service, and programming venues, where people can know and be known in deeply connectional ways.
The Internet give us extraordinary tools to communicate a message to a large group of people. In recent months this ability has started to cause
Sharon Ely Pearson writes on bulidingfaith: As a church we have accepted the need to follow guidelines in how we conduct ourselves and our interactions
“The soul of a parish is making. This follows the medieval tradition of the parish benefice, or one in which a parish produces a good to support the parish.”
While visiting churches in their new area, they may spend one Sunday at yours. The impression they get that morning is how they’ll decide to come back or not… unless you find a way to give them a bigger picture—like e-mail.
Three Cups of Coffee could be about Episcopal congregations taking on global concerns, particularly as they appear at the local level.