Feb 5, 2025 | BNS Growth and Stewardship Ideas
How are you celebrating the activities, interests and commitments of people that happen outside of church? How can you take your support to them? Intentionally invite each other to activities and events that happen outside regular worship! Have you thought about...
Jan 29, 2025 | BNS Growth and Stewardship Ideas
How does your leadership, your teams, your committees prioritize time to ensure you are doing faith formation, spiritual grounding, taking time to experience deep spirituality together? Some have been accustomed to gathering outside of worship for meetings that tend...
Jan 22, 2025 | BNS Growth and Stewardship Ideas
How are you addressing those what if possibilities to keep your church vibrant, energized, animated and growing? What if your key leadership were to leave? Think of the “go to” people who take the lead, organizing, knowing where things are, how things are done and...
Jan 15, 2025 | BNS Growth and Stewardship Ideas
Do you need to talk about the struggles and fears, to process some grief and lament, so you can find the sacred spaciousness to again embrace hope, the unexpected and the new things? Do you need to do a pre-mortem to imagine the most unwanted outcomes, so that you can...
Jan 8, 2025 | BNS Growth and Stewardship Ideas
Are you looking for ways to be bold disciples and invite others? Bold discipleship takes many forms. Some stories are really spontaneous and creative. A person renewed their YMCA membership and in the hot tub of their local Y, struck up a conversation with a dad who...
Dec 18, 2024 | BNS Growth and Stewardship Ideas
Invitation takes many forms. A minister closes each sermon with an intentional invitation, such as next week our focus will be on …. Over this week, consider who might find our topic helpful and invite them to accompany you in joining us at next week’s service.”...
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