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Gifts You Don't Have to Wrap
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(last updated: 12/10/2009)
The holiday season is the perfect time to pass down stories of your family history.
Multiplying the Mission
Home > Interpreter Magazine > Leadership Link > Multiplying the Mission
(last updated: 10/21/2009)
Many of our mainline churches continue to dump vital resources into the corpses of institutional churches that died decades ago. If you are not reaching the lost and freeing the least, you are dead!
Micro vs. Macro
Home > Interpreter Magazine > Leadership Link > Micro vs. Macro
(last updated: 10/2/2009)
In the 1990s, many of us were talking about the 24/7 church -- the church that ran a complex array of programming seven days a week, 24 hours a day. The missional church that is engaging its community and world in the places of real need today will not waste time and resources fueling complex organizational structures and programs.
Leadership that Makes Disciples
Home > Interpreter Magazine > Leadership Link > Leadership that Makes Disciples
(last updated: 9/25/2009)
The church has invested vast sums of resources in programs, facilities and staffs that have little effect in moving people to the place of discipleship that is demonstrated in contagious lifestyles of sacrificial mission.
The Inclusive vs. Exclusive Church
Home > Interpreter Magazine > Leadership Link > The Inclusive vs. Exclusive Church
(last updated: 9/16/2009)
Presidential election years can be absolutely bizarre in the life cycles of the local church. Peoplecs allegiances are often drawn along partisan political ideologies rather than Christ-infused theology. I have been through a number of these election cycles in my 30-plus years of ministry at Ginghamsburg Church, but the election of 2008 seemed particularly intense. People9s fangs came out.
New Leaders: Jay Williams
Home > Interpreter Magazine > Archives > 2009 Archives > September-October 2009 > New Leaders: Jay Williams
(last updated: 9/2/2009)
Jay Williams began preparing for a medical career as a doctor or research scientist when he entered Harvard University, then found himself in a financially seductive career on Wall Street by the time he graduated magna cum laude.
New Leaders: Josh Kouri
Home > Interpreter Magazine > Archives > 2009 Archives > September-October 2009 > New Leaders: Josh Kouri
(last updated: 9/2/2009)
The wager was simple for the Albuquerque, N.M., high school student. Enroll in law school and follow his stated career goal, and his church youth director would buy dinner. But enroll in the seminary and follow God2s plan for his life, and he would pay for the meal.
New Leaders: Lara Byrd
Home > Interpreter Magazine > Archives > 2009 Archives > September-October 2009 > New Leaders: Lara Byrd
(last updated: 9/2/2009)
Like many other United Methodist youth in South Carolina, Lara Byrd spent her summers working to improve the homes of needy people and reaching out to those families through Salkehatchie Summer Service, a servant ministry for high school and college students.
New Leaders: Nicole Conrad
Home > Interpreter Magazine > Archives > 2009 Archives > September-October 2009 > New Leaders: Nicole Conrad
(last updated: 9/2/2009)
Barely a teenager, Nicole Conard came home from a social gathering at Clemmons United Methodist Church in Clemmons, N.C., where seventh-graders like her had not mixed so well with eight-graders, and announced to her parents, %22Well, when I'm a minister, this is not going to happen.%22
New Leaders: Rebekah Jordan Gienapp
Home > Interpreter Magazine > Archives > 2009 Archives > September-October 2009 > New Leaders: Rebekah Jordan Gienapp
(last updated: 9/2/2009)
Rebekah Jordan Gienapp allowed her deep concerns about justice for the poor to guide her into a life of ministry -- not as an elder in a church pulpit, but as a deacon on the streets in her hometown of Memphis.
Young Leaders: Eric Helms
Home > Interpreter Magazine > Archives > 2009 Archives > September-October 2009 > Young Leaders: Eric Helms
(last updated: 9/2/2009)
Eric Helms' call to the ministry developed slowly and methodically over the years, from the unexplained spiritual feelings of a young boy at confirmation age to the explicit commitment of a soon-to-be ordained elder in The United Methodist Church.
'I Was a Good Communist'
Home > Interpreter Magazine > Archives > Archives Web Exclusives > 'I Was a Good Communist'
(last updated: 8/11/2009)
Pastor Yuri Davydkin of Gatchina, Russia, worked tirelessly as a young communist to extinguish all traces of the church during the Soviet era.
A Simple Planning Process
Home > Interpreter Magazine > Leadership Link > A Simple Planning Process
(last updated: 7/27/2009)
Below is a simple planning process that a number of groups have used successfully. You can determine if some or all of the process may fit some of your planning needs.
Four Questions for Congregations
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(last updated: 7/27/2009)
Four Questions for Congregations
More Young Families with Children?
Home > Interpreter Magazine > Leadership Link > More Young Families with Children?
(last updated: 7/27/2009)
%22What we really need is more young families with children.%22 How many times have we heard those familiar words spoken in churches? The image of many young families with children brings memories of a time many churches associate with their heyday decades ago.
Staying Attuned to Your Community
Home > Interpreter Magazine > Leadership Link > Staying Attuned to Your Community
(last updated: 7/27/2009)
The longer a church has been in existence, the less knowledgeable it is likely to be about its community and the less connected it becomes with that community.
Is Denominational Loyalty Waning?
Home > Interpreter Magazine > Leadership Link > Is Denominational Loyalty Waning?
(last updated: 7/20/2009)
Recent research confirms that people are not as loyal to their denominations as church leaders might wish.
Mercy Hospital: Making a Big Difference in Sierra Leone
Home > Interpreter Magazine > Archives > Archives Web Exclusives > Mercy Hospital: Making a Big Difference in Sierra Leone
(last updated: 7/15/2009)
Residing within the structure of the Sierra Leone Conference of The United Methodist Church, Mercy Hospital is an exciting example of how the connectionalism of the church can save lives and make a difference in the poorest country in the world.
TWho is Greatest?9 9 The Wrong Leadership Question
Home > Interpreter Magazine > Leadership Link > TWho is Greatest?9 9 The Wrong Leadership Question
(last updated: 7/6/2009)
In Luke 22:24, a dispute arises among the disciples as to %22which one of them was to be regarded as the greatest.%22 This is the wrong question, but one asked all too often within the church.
Lenten Fitness Challenge motivates congregation to "Walk to Jerusalem"
Home > Interpreter Magazine > It Worked For Us > Lenten Fitness Challenge motivates congregation to "Walk to Jerusalem"
(last updated: 5/20/2009)
Between Memorial Day and Labor Day, members of Epworth United Methodist Church (www.epworthindy.org) are walking a collective 6,240 miles – the distance from Indianapolis to Jerusalem. About 100 members of the Indianapolis church are participating in “Walk to Jerusalem” after their Lenten Fit for Life Challenge sparked enthusiasm for healthy lifestyles.
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