Visual Arts in Advent and Christmas - Church of the Servant
A slideshow of art installations for the season of Advent and Christmas at Church of the Servant.
November 23, 2010
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1 min read
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
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5 min read
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
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8 min read
Let Them Hear: Why Not Get Your Church Looped?
Most parishioners with hearing loss choose not to suffer the hassle and embarrassment of special receivers and headsets. Happily, there’s a better alternative—the broadcast of personalized sound directly through hearing aids.
November 19, 2010
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1 min read
Songwriters Tell Their Stories: Kids in costume introduce a service of songs
Several well-known hymn writers “reappeared” recently for one hour in Bloomington, Minnesota. They were our guests at a hymn festival that was planned to build appreciation for the hymnody of the church among our children—and adults.
November 19, 2010
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1 min read
Picturing Jesus: Children's bulletin ideas for Lent
Some parents asked our Worship Ministry team to consider ways of drawing children into our worship services, and as a parent of two school-aged daughters and a toddler, I concurred.
November 19, 2010
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1 min read
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
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1 min read
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
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1 min read
Child's Play
For a cooperative art project, why not recruit a group who are easy to work with: kids?
November 19, 2010
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1 min read
Pastoral Undertaking: A Case for Prearranging Funerals
At one of our church member's funeral, we gathered in Christ’s name to proclaim his resurrection as well as hers. Yet something seemed to be missing from this service of worship. This woman had dialogued at length with her own death, and we had heard only part of the conversation.
November 19, 2010
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1 min read
How to... Lead Worship in a Rest Home
Here are some things to keep in mind when addressing the elderly.
November 19, 2010
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1 min read
Coop's Column - Cultivating Attentiveness
There’s a world of difference between hearing and listening.
November 19, 2010
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4 min read
