Saturday, July 09, 2022

Saturday Lagniappe: 'Know Thy Church' and More


When we see the word “data” it’s easy to think of charts, graphs and numbers on a screen, but put simply, data helps us know.

Mark Clifton Brings Vitality to Rural America Church Landscape
“Outside of the deep South, rural America is as unchurched as many of our urban core centers in our major cities... And even in the South, where we have a great number of rural churches, many of them are really struggling to connect to the culture as it changes around them.”

How to Double Your Volunteers in One Month
Dale Hudson shares some strategies churches can use to get lots of new volunteers.

Skill Training: How to Add Meaningful Prayer Together to Your Group Meeting
Whether yours is a brand new group or you’ve been meeting together for years, paying attention to these keys will shift your prayer time from dull routine to deeply personal.

Inflation Boosts Demand at Food Banks as Pandemic Anti-Hunger Measures Fall Away
While President Biden recently signed the Keep Kids Fed Act, extending free meal programs for schoolchildren, many stopgaps funded during the pandemic have ended or are only available in some states.

Bishops Grapple with Defining Book of Common Prayer
The Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops spent over an hour on Friday grappling with two technical proposals for amending Article X of the church’s constitution, which defines the Book of Common Prayer, and eventually set up a task force to work out a compromise.

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