How to get started now and celebrate Easter Week in your community together, apart.

No one who loves what they are called to do wants to be sidelined. When it happens, your mind is swirling, your heart is hurt and you ask, where do I begin?

Right now churches are scrambling to cut costs. However, some expenses actually generate revenue and cutting these expenses will make a bad situation even worse. Here are five expenses that your church should NOT cut during the COVID-19 crisis.

COVID-19 is putting a spotlight on key areas of finance and administration that need addressing in the time of crisis. Where should church administrators/treasurers/bookkeepers/custodians start?

If you have a sustained drop in income you may have to lay people off. To prepare for this possibility, a staff contingency plan will serve you and your church very well.

With the economy crashing and millions of people out of work it is essential that we bring our expenses under control.

Social distancing, quarantine, self-isolation, all of these terms are new to us and on the surface fly in the face of the very idea of community. But now more than ever, it’s the very thing that our communities need! It’s time for our small groups to fill the void that is needed. Here are 5 things to remember when you are leading small groups online.

The thought of doing “church online” seems completely foreign to many of us. First, don’t copy the other churches that do church online. If you’ve never done church online before, try this idea. I call it, “The Living Room Experience”. It’s a low cost, intimate, and connected alternative for your next online church service.

Our faith is bigger than our facilities. One thing we’ve gleaned during the COVID-19 crisis is people will find a way to connect. Physical distancing doesn’t mean social isolation. And that includes sacramental celebrations like communion.

For many congregations, the last Sunday of the month is a time for Communion. Don’t let isolation prohibit your celebration.

There is no time to waste and even in the chaos, the gospel must move forward. Here are 3 ways you can spread the gospel and be relentlessly outward bound during this COVID-19 crisis.

Whatever size church you lead, connection has never been easier or more important. The great thing about communicating is you don’t need to monkey around with an easy way to connect. Mailchimp takes care of that for you.

May I encourage you, Pastor, to understand and accept that self-care is not at all ‘selfish.’ Your effectiveness in caring for others will be in proportion to the degree you care for yourself.

During this harrying time, let me suggest a few important things to remember that are not at all selfish.

Everyone is looking for guidance and direction to make the next best decision to protect themselves, their families, their staff and their communities. “What do I do next?” Practice realistic optimism.

Dr. Cooper’s 5 Leadership Prescriptions For Pastors

How do you respond to all the needs that are arising in the mists of the chaos? This blog give you a few thoughts that I trust will help and encourage you in the days ahead.

Community connection in a crisis is crucial, especially for communities of faith. Most, if not all Canadian churches, will be finding ways to host online services, immediately. Never before has connection been so available to so many. How providential. Here is one way to branch out connection for everyone in your congregation.

As pastors, if we can mobilize our people and not allow them to be frozen by fear. We could come out the other side (and there is going to be another side) stronger and more effective than ever.

Here are 5 ways you can impact your community during the COVID-19 crisis.

We are faced with a challenge at the moment with the COVID-19 virus for sure. You cannot meet and probably should not meet in person. But the fact is we are facing a real opportunity to leverage tools that maybe we have hardly considered to this point. So while you cannot plan a event as normal, your church continues on. We have always been more than a gathering. Here are 3 practical tools you can use to keep the ministry thriving as well as ever during this pandemic and social distancing.