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Internships: Churches Make Room for People to Serve and Learn in Ministry

Interns often add energy, joy, and new connections to a church. Does your congregation have what it takes to mentor and support an intern?

November 22, 2010
Internships: Jubilee Fellows

When you're looking for a church internship, some opportunities may sound like they were made for you. But church internships also involve tasks that may feel tedious or push you out of your comfort zone.

November 22, 2010

How to Develop a Requiem Choir: A Congregational Ministry for Funerals

In the midst of life, we are in death.” But fewer and fewer of us share in the sad, sometimes openly commercial rituals that surround our final passage in this culture—more and more grieving family and close friends mourn by themselves.

November 19, 2010
Why Not "Move" Advent to November?

The lectionary says, “repent and prepare,” but the rhythms of many congregations say, “children’s Christmas program.” The calendar says, “fast and pray,” but Sunday schools schedule Christmas parties with cake and cookies. Advent says, “not yet, not yet,” but church-goers clamor to sing their favorite Christmas carols.

November 19, 2010