Saturday Lagniappe: Missional Mutiny and More

Missional Mutiny: Missional Living in a Pandemic and Beyond

In a five-part article Ed Stetzer examines what it means to live missionally in the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Read Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four

Corona Blues

As well as dealing with our own emotions and frustrations we are now at the stage where church leaders need to be giving serious thought to life after corona. We’ve all been sprinting like mad to adjust to the new reality but now need to turn our thoughts to how we emerge from this time. For what it’s worth, here is an outline of how I’m working this through with my team. Read More

An Invitation to a Webinar

Chuck Lawless and Keith Whitfield are facilitating a free webinar called “Regather” to help ministry leaders identify current opportunities, avoid burnout, and prepare for the future in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis. Learn More

We Are All Shut-Ins Now: 3 Lessons I Don’t Want to Forget About Ministry to Shut-Ins

We are all shut-ins now. We are home but we have found just how exhausting it can be to be home all of the time. The daily grind begins to get at us mentally and socially in a way we never expected. We are restricted, but hopefully we have learned some empathy in our restrictions. Read More

Our Children Are Watching Our Stay-at-Home Response

We’re going to keep obeying our governmental authorities as well as experts in the medical field who call us to remain cautious. And one of the big reasons we are going to do this is for our children. Not that they are particularly susceptible to this virus—but because they are susceptible to learning from really bad examples. Read More

Children are contracting the virus and spreading it to other people even though most of them experience mild or no symptoms. Because they are more likely to ignore public health measures like maintaining a distance of six feet or more from other people and to have close physical contact with adults and children, they are from a public health perspective major transmitters of the disease. In my neighborhood I have observed groups of children playing together and interacting with adults, including senior adults, within touching distance of the adult. Children who have compromised immune systems, asthma, and Type I diabetes fall into the high risk category. In a small number of cases children who have contracted the virus have developed a rare childhood disease in which the blood vessels become swollen and infected.