Leading Beyond The Walls

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?

Meet John. John is a thriving member at Resurrection. He’s a young adult who is truly seeking to become a deeply committed Christian. John is in a small group, is a valuable member of the Young Adult Leadership Team, and is a Missions leader. He has a great job, great friends, and is constantly connecting other young adults.

If your church is like most churches, you have “front-door” missions opportunities – places where your members can serve one time in order to get a taste of missions. They might participate in a day of community service, serve a meal in a soup kitchen, or help with a holiday service project. But how do you help your members move beyond camping out at the front door of missions to engage them more deeply?