Leading Beyond The Walls

Kevin Bogan is the Director of Traditional/Blended Worship Arts
Planning worship and the music resources used can be a complicated, but rewarding process.  The responsibility of leading people who are at different places in their faith walk to a deeper understanding of what’s happening in worship takes many different levels of preparation.  Selecting a piece of [...]

Debi Nixon, Executive Director of Adult Discipleship and Catalyst Ministry
Lessons in leadership surround us. Sometimes we make discoveries because we have intentionally  read a book or an article on leadership, or attended a conference, and other times we make discoveries in surprising ways. I just returned from New York City where my college-age daughter completed [...]

Dan Entwistle is the Managing Executive Director of Programs and Ministries.
If your church keeps doing more of what you’re doing today, what results could you reasonably expect in the coming years? 
While God is unchanging, those churches that stick with the same game plan year-after year will soon find that their best days are behind them.  [...]

Carol Cartmill is the Director of  Community Life. 
God can accomplish much more when all of the members of the body of Christ are fulfilling the purpose for which they were created—serving by using their God-given gifts and abilities.  The purpose of this article is to help you begin to think strategically about how you, as [...]

Jason Gant is the Director of Student Ministies.  Julie Peters is the Associate Director of Student Ministries. 
The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection is committed to the renewal of The United Methodist Church and the mainline church.  Resurrection’s Student Ministries has developed and implemented an exciting ministry  to identify and raise up the next generation [...]

Karen Lampe is the Executive Pastor of Congregational Care
The mission of the Congregational Care department of The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection is to guide the community toward healing and wholeness.
We face a problem common to most congregations. There are not enough hours in the day for one pastor to provide the level of [...]

Plan to attend Leadership Institute 2009 Complete information is available now at http://www.cor.org/li2009/.

You are reading the first edition of our Leading Beyond the Walls newsletter.  Our hope, with this e-newsletter, is to offer some of the latest ideas, resources and insights from the staff of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection.  I’m excited to read the newsletter myself as I learn from our staff, and am [...]

What Is Your Church Planning for Stewardship This Year?
For the past two years at Resurrection we’ve offered a different kind of stewardship campaign and the results have been dramatic.  Rather than focusing on tithing and raising the budget, we’ve focused on the broader issue of how we relate to our money, the struggles we face [...]

Christmas vs. Easter
Our cities and towns are full of C & E people, lovely folks who are non-religious and nominally-religious, who will consider showing up at a church maybe these two times each year, for our celebrations of Christmas and Easter. How can we help them want to show up—to really, truly want to be in our churches? And how can we help them want to stay, to linger, to grow with us?