Tuesday Together Resourses

11-7-2023 Vibrant Together Series: Measuring a Church's Vibrancy

Measuring a Church’s Vibrancy
A Vibrant Together Series

RESOURCE:
STUDY GUIDE

10-17-2023 Vibrant Together Series: Israel & Palestine

Talking About War
A Vibrant Together Series

RESOURCE:
STUDY GUIDE

10-3-2023 Vibrant Together Series: Clear Sense of Identity

Clear Sense of Identity & Principally Articulated Vision
A Vibrant Together Series

RESOURCE:
STUDY GUIDE

9-19-2023 Vibrant Together Series: Super-Empowered Hopeful Ministry

Super-Empowered Hopeful Ministry
A Vibrant Together Series

RESOURCE:
STUDY GUIDE

9-5-2023 Vibrant Together Series: Who Are You a Neighbor To?

Who Are You a Neighbor To?
A Vibrant Together Series

RESOURCE:
STUDY GUIDE

8-15-2023 Vibrant Together Series: Tyranny of Decline & Imperative of Innovation

The Tyranny of Decline
and 

The Imperative of Innovation
A Vibrant Together Series

RESOURCE:
STUDY GUIDE

8-1-2023 Vibrant Together Series: Connecting & Deepening Through Worship

Connecting with God
and
Deepening Our Spiritual Life Through Worship
A Vibrant Together Series

RESOURCE:
STUDY GUIDE

7-18-2023 Vibrant Together Series: Is Your Worship Compelling?

Is Your Worship Compelling?
By Bruce Reyes-Chow
Adapted for the Vibrant Together Series

RESOURCES:
STUDY GUIDE QUICK DISCUSSION GUIDE

6-27-2023 Tuesday Together: Summer Has Arrived

PDF FileTopic:

  • Summer Has Arrived
  • Seasonal Shifts
  • Turn Signal Strategies
  • Accelerate into the Curve

6-20-2023 Tuesday Together: Yeah...that just happened...

PDF FileTopic:

  • Exercising Our Ministry Agility Muscle
  • Innovate Immediately
  • Enlist Assistance
  • Surf This Wave & Reflect While Wet

6-13-2023 Tuesday Together: Effective Ministry Teams

PDF FileTopic:

  • 5 Characteristics of Effective Ministry Teams
  • Ann Michel on Churchleadership.com

6-6-2023 Tuesday Together: Spiritual Development

PDF FileTopic:

  • Spiritual Development​
  • Disciple Making as the Primary Purpose of the Church​
  • Assembly Responses​
  • Theological Reflection

5-30-2023 Tuesday Together: Imagination and Hope

PDF FileTopic:

  • Imagination and Hope​
  • Future Mindset Questions​
  • The Shape of the Future for Me​
  • The Shape of the Future for the Church

5-23-2023 Tuesday Together: A Season for Rebuilding

PDF FileTopic:

  • A Season of Re-Building​
  • The Medical Benefits Plan of the PCUSA Board of Pensions​
  • Disciple Making as the Primary Purpose of the Church​
  • Assembly Responses

5-16-2023 Tuesday Together: Ascension & Mission

PDF FileTopic:

  • Ascension – Thursday, May 18​
  • Gospel Lesson for Ascension: Luke 24:44-53​
  • Ascension—Commissioned for God’s Mission​
  • The Church’s Mission

5-9-2023 Tuesday Together: Candid Conversations

PDF FileTopic:

  • Five Ground Rules for Candid Conversations

5-2-2023 Tuesday Together: Volunteering

PDF FileTopic:

  • Beyond the Offering Plate: Views of Volunteering

4-25-2023 Tuesday Together: Ethics

PDF FileTopic:

  • Ethics​
  • What do ethics mean in think culture and climate?​
  • Ethics Guidelines​
  • For Ministers​
  • For Elders, Deacons, Staff, Volunteers

4-18-2023 Tuesday Together: Crisis Preparedness

PDF FileTopic:

  • 1000-year rainfall in Ft. Lauderdale
  • Crisis: Inevitabilities and Agility
  • The Water Will Come
  • Five Questions
  • What does this mean for churches?

4-11-2023 Tuesday Together: 4,000 Weeks

PDF FileTopic:

  • Four Thousand Weeks – Oliver Burkeman
  • Time Management for Mortals
  • One Single Life
  • Five Questions

3-28-2023 Tuesday Together: The Most Important Leadership Tool

PDF FileTopic:

The Most Important Leadership Tool by Jacki King

  • Limits
  • Boundaries
  • Self-awareness
  • Growth
  • Grace

3-21-2023 Tuesday Together: The Way Jesus Did It

PDF FileTopic:

5 Ways to Engage People the Way Jesus Did

3-14-2023 Tuesday Together: John 9:1-41

PDF FileTopic:

John 9:1-41– Is Seeing Believing?  Is Believing Seeing? 

  • Engaging the Text – Who is Blind?
  • Who Caused this Chaos? 
  • What do YOU see?
  • What do you SEE?

2-28-2023 Tuesday Together: John 3:1-17

PDF FileTopic:

  • John 3:1-17 – Spiritual Depth as Leadership Development​
  • Engaging the Text​
  • The Wind Blows Where It Will​
  • The Church Born of Water & Spirit​
  • Not to Condemn But Be Saved

2-21-2023 Tuesday Together: Ash Wednesday

PDF FileTopic:

  • Ash Wednesday
    • Reflections on Our Mortality
    • Pray and Action

2-14-2023 Tuesday Together: Spiritual Depth and Leadership Development

PDF FileTopic:

  • Unexpected Grace
  • Love as Leadership
  • Climbing trees with Zacchaeus
  • Relational, Non-Judgmental, Clarity


2-7-2023 Tuesday Together: Handling Scripture

PDF FileTopic:

  • January Exegesis Exam Eruption​
  • Ordination Exams and Trauma​
  • Dealing with Difficult Texts​
  • Dealing with Trauma in the Church


1-31-2023 Tuesday Together: Lent

PDF FileTopic:

  • Lent Looms Large
  • Lent as a Faithful Journey
  • What Might We Do
  • Bold Themes


1-24-2023 Tuesday Together: Leadership Resolutions for Churches

PDF FileTopic:

Five Leadership Resolutions for Your Church in 2023​
by Sam Rainer


1-17-2023 Tuesday Together: Church Reporting Items and If God is Love Don't Be a Jerk - Part II

PDF FileTopic:

  • Statistics
  • Structure
  • Synod
  • Spiritual But not Religious
    • If God Is Love Don’t Be a Jerk  by John Pavlovitz


1-10-2023 Tuesday Together: As God's Beloved, Don't Be a Jerk!

PDF FileTopic:

  • Baptism of the LordHeavens opened
  • If God Is Love Don’t Be a Jerk  by John Pavlovitz


2022

12-13-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopic:

Four Ways to Make Christmas Eve Hospitality the Pattern for the Year
by Doug Powe  

12-6-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopic:

Think Again – Adam Grant​

  • Collective Rethinking
    • Have More Nuanced Conversations​
    • Teach Kids to Think Again​
    • Create Learning Organizations​
    • Stay Open to Rethinking Your Future
11-29-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopic:

Think Again – Adam Grant​

  • Interpersonal Rethinking
11-15-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopic:

Think Again – Adam Grant​

  • Individual Rethinking –focus today​
  • Interpersonal Rethinking ​
  • Collective Rethinking
11-8-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopic:

The Great Reset: 7 (Real) Reasons People STILL Aren’t Coming Back to Church

By Carey Nieuwhof

11-1-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopic:

Come Sail Away

  • Cargo Ship Church
  • Cruise Ship Church
  • Sailboat Church
  • Kayak Church
  • Inflatable Raft Church

Finance Items

  • Employee Retention Credit
  • Housing Allowance 2023
10-25-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopic:

  • From “We Don’t Do That” to “We Can Use That”​
  • Reformation & Reformation Sunday​
  • Halloween​
  • All Saints’ Day​
  • Day of the Dead

10-18-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopic:

From Stewardship to Generosity​

10-11-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopic:

Passionate Worship | Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations
– By Robert Schnase

10-4-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopic:

Hurricane Ian

  • When the Great Windstorm Arose
  • Peace! Be Still!
  • Connecting with Scripture in a Time of Travail

9-27-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopic:

Radical Hospitality

  • Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations | by Robert Schnase

9-20-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopic:

  • The Velveteen Principles (Kind of, but not really…)
  • To Be Real in a World of Objects
  • Principle 1: Real is Possible
  • Principle 2: Real is a Process
  • Principle 3: Real is Emotional
  • Principle 4: Real is Empathetic
  • Principle 5: Real is Courageous

9-13-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopic:

FLUX cont.

  • Our New-Now-Next-Never Normal
  • Know Your “Enough”
  • Create Your Portfolio Career
  • Be All the More Human (and Serve Other Humans)
  • Let Go of the Future

9-6-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopic:

  • FLUX

    • Our New-Now-Next-Never Normal
    • Run Slower
    • See What’s Invisible
    • Get Lost
    • Start With Trust

8-30-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopic:

  • Hybrid Meeting
  • Review and/or Reflections on Assembly 8/20
  • Survey Says
  • Casting Forward

8-23-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopic:

Ministry Support Team

  • Commitment
  • Respect
  • Filled with the Holy Spirit and wisdom
  • Competency
  • Chemistry

8-16-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopic:

Vital Worship

  • Review and/or Renew – Looking with Fresh Eyes
  • Reformed Worship
  • Gathering, Word, Eucharist, Sending

8-9-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopic:

  • valerie izumi
  • Nominations Process
  • Hope for the Future
  • Reconciliation and Relationships

8-2-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopic:

6 Essential Elements of Fruitful Small Group

7-26-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopic:

5 Principles of Dramatic Improvisation Inform a Healthier Response to Conflict

7-19-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopic:

  • You asked for it!
  • GA 225 in retrospect. 
  • Practical implications.
  • What this means for folks in our pews.

7-12-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopic:

Evaluations and Reviews
– A possible pattern
– GA Cycle and Review Committees
– Adaptations to Integration and Excellence
– Clarity of Identity

6-28-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopic:

SCOTUS

  • What do we do with this?
  • Advocacy in context of who we are/have been?
  • What is our voice in the larger voice of Christendom?
6-21-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopic:

A Simple Approach to Creating a Culture of Accountability for Ministry Leaders

6-14-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopics:

  • 225th General Assembly

    • Resources & Tools Orientation
    • Hot issues
6-7-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopics:

  • Seven Traits of the Successful Pastor of 2027
5-31-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopics:

  • From Assembly to Gathering​
  • Disciple Making​
  • Building Relationships​
  • Continuing the Conversation

 

5-24-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopics:

The Ideal Team Player

  • Humble
  • Hungry
  • Smart

 

5-17-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopics:

  • Conversations That Matter
  • Difficult Conversations
  • From Buffalo to a Presbyterian Church
  • Do We Dare Talk About It?
  • If More People Leave?

 

5-10-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopics:

  • Legal Eagle
  • Top Clicks
  • Facts vs. Action
    • Could and Should
    • Letter vs. Spirit of the Law​
  • No new Questions Under the Sun

 

5-3-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopics:

  • Don’t You Forget About Me
  • Resurrection as a Call to Action
  • Easter as a Season of Movement
    • ​Disruption
    • Confusion
    • Perplexity
  • Resurrection as Change Process

 

4-26-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopics:

  • Easter Check In
  • Seven Ways Your Church Must Deal with Rapid Change

 

4-12-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopics:

  • This could be the hardest period for pastors and church leaders
  • After two years “of no hugs and unchanging surroundings”
  • Issues on the way…
  • Leaving it there…
  • On the way … Together

 

4-5-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopics:

  • Tax-Time Tidbits – Five for Finance
  • Time Marches On – Travel Log Shifts
  • The Trouble of Niceness

 

3-29-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopics:

  • CT: Do Russian Christians Need More Bonhoeffers?
  • Faith Leadership – From Contemplation to Action
  • Intersection of Authenticity, Activism, and Faithfulness

 

3-22-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopics:

  • Authenticity
  • Communicating Authentically

 

3-15-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopics:

  • Statistical Reporting
  • A Shout Out
  • Metrics for the 20’s
  • Nine Plus Questions to Ask
  • Measuring Progress

 

3-1-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopics:

  • At-War
    • Conversations Along the Way
  • The Sticky Note
    • It’s Not About You
    • Wait
    • Be Inquisitive
    • It’s Always Gray

 

2-22-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopics:

  • COVID-19​
    • All Done?​
    • What about masks?​
  • The Lenten Journey​
    • As Congregations​
    • As the Presbytery​
  • Prayer and the Lenten Journey

 

2-15-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopics:

  • Building Relationships​
  • De-briefing the Assembly​
  • Leadership Traits​
  • Evidence, Steps, Prayer

 

2-8-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopics:

Reflections on Worship

  • Why Churches Should Drop Their Online Services (NYT 1-30-2022)​
  • Online Church is Church. I will not abandon my people. (2-1-2022)​
  • Book of Order-The Constitution of the Presbyterian Church (USA) Part II

 

2-1-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopics:

  • Ministry Plan 2022 –Building Relationships​
  • Leadership Development ​
  • The Three Questions​
  • Approachable​
  • Psychological Safety​
  • Integrity

 

1-25-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopics:

  • The Big Picture of Digital Marketing
  • Your Website Matters
  • Key Website Considerations

 

1-18-2022 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopics:

  • 7 Spiritual Practices for the New Year

 

1-11-2022 Tuesday Together with Covid Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • Welcome to 2022!!​
  • Pandemic Ministry Experts​
  • What does all this COVID Stuff Mean?​
  • Church Finances​
  • Missional Engagement​
  • Rest and Vacation/Leave Time​
  • Continuing Education​
  • To Do List

 

2021

12-14-2021 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopics:

  • Being the mall in the age of Amazon

 

12-7-2021 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopics:

  • COVID – 19
  • The Uncle Fred Syndrome
  • Omicron
  • Consciousness of a New Normal
  • Booster Bravery
  • Love Note from Lisa Allgood

 

11-30-2021 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopics:

  • Investing in Your Leadership Development

 

11-16-2021 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopics:

  • Community Engagement
  • Discover the Need
  • Gather the Passionate
  • Streamline the Strategy
  • What to Let Go Of

 

11-9-2021 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopics:

 

11-2-2021 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopics:

  • NOVEMBER
  • “The Church can build what it first imagines.” –Jessica Tate
  • “What do we need to unlearn?” –Tod Bolsinger

 

10-26-2021 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopics:

  • Octoberversation Four​
  • Pulling It All Together​
  • “Yes, And…”​
  • Engage, Equip, Encourage​
  • Ministry Workplan 2022-2025 A First Swing​
  • PPP Round 1 and 2 Forgiveness

 

10-19-2021 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopics:

  • Octoberversation Three
  • Engage, Equip, Encourage
    • Presbytery Focus and Work
    • Iteration
    • Still more
  • “Yes, And…”

 

10-12-2021 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopics:

  • Octoberversation Two
  • Engage, Equip, Encourage
    • Presbytery focus and Work
    • Iteration over revision
    • Still more
  • Building, Deepening, Abiding
  • This week iteration, and next week: “Yes, And…”

 

10-5-2021 Tuesday Together

PDF FileTopics:

  • Octoberfest vs. Octoberversation One​
  • Engage, Equip, Encourage​
  • Clarity of Identity Part II​
  • Presbytery focus and Work ​
  • Building Faith, Deepening Hope, Abiding Love

 

9-28-2021 Tuesday Together with Covid Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • Weekend Celebrations
  • 12 Traits of Churches Doing Well During the Pandemic

 

9-21-2021 Covid Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • COVID Check-in​
  • 5 Ways to Preach about Money More Effectively​

 

9-14-2021 Covid Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • Our structure emphasizes the role of pastor, the New Testament – not so much​
  • The Pastoral Prime Mandate​
    • Equipping People​
    • Sharing the Leadership of the Church​
  • Pastors Convocation this week

 

9-7-2021 Covid Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • COVID Love Note
    • Good News
    • Bad News
    • For the Love of God…
  • 20th Anniversary of 9/11/2001
    • Worship Plans
    • Other Observations
  • Shared Lament

 

8-31-2021 Covid Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • COVID Check in​
  • 7 Deadly Sins of Church Social Media

 

8-24-2021 Covid Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • Planning for Keepers After the Pandemic
    12 things Churches Changed During COVID That They are Keeping After COVID
    • To Stream or Not
    • Zoom Prayer and Study
    • Small Group Ministry
    • Staffing Shifts

 

8-17-2021 Covid Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • Oh Florida! “How can this get worse?”
  • Worried About Worship?
  • What a World!  Haiti and Afghanistan

 

8-10-2021 Covid Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • Up to 12 Things Churches Changed During COVID That They are Keeping After COVID – Part One

 

8-3-2021 Covid Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • NY Times: More Covid Mysteries
  • Not in Control
  • “Much, much milder”
  • “Rip Through”
  • No need for nihilism

 

7-27-2021 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • COVID, the Resurgence
  • Change Theory, a reminder
  • Technical vs. Adaptive
    • The Big Church Leadership Mistake of 2021 (That You Can Still Avoid)
7-20-2021 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • The Great Virtuality – Chip Hardwick​
  • Post-Pandemic Church​
    • A Longer Perspective​
    • Alone Together – Sherry Turkle​
  • Opportunities​
  • Challenges​
  • Questions this Prompts for the Church
7-13-2021 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • Billionaire Priorities
  • Congregational Priorities – Clarity of Identity
  • COVID – Rheostat
  • Church Tensions
7-6-2021 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • Surfside Update
  • COVID – “I’m Still Here.”
  • 8 Habits Part 2
    • Justice
    • Teaching
    • Fellowship
    • Generosity
6-29-2021 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • Trauma – Surfside Catastrophe
6-15-2021 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • Optimizing Check-in
  • Entrepreneurial Pastors/Leaders
    • Basic Agreements
    • Seven Ways Pastors (Leaders) Should Think Like an Entrepreneur
6-8-2021 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • Leadership During and After the Pandemic
  • Risk Management
  • Risk Taking
  • Characteristics of Risk-Taking Leadership
  • Out of the Comfort Zone: 5 Pushes
6-1-2021 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • Pandemic Matrix​
  • Opening and Optimizing​
  • Going Back vs Going Forward​
  • Hurricane Kit​
    • Tax free until June 
5-25-2021 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • Church as Organization
  • Church as Movement
  • Gen Z – Yep, Those Young People
    • You Might Be Ignoring Them Inadvertently 
5-18-2021 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • Mask Confusion
    • CDC
    • Vaccination Requirements
  • Bombing and Terror
  • Towards a Definition
  • On Pentecost
5-11-2021 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • COVID, In-person Worship and Stalling Vaccine Numbers​
  • Consumers at the Buffet
5-4-2021 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • Of Mandates and Masks
    • CDC
    • Just to be different, Florida
    • Churches and Clarity of Communication
  • Boundaries, Boundaries
  • Mandated Training
  • Asking Questions that Make for Dialogue
4-27-2021 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • The BLAH You’re Feeling
  • Numb to the Numbers​
  • “Leaving On a Jet Plane”​
  • Walk To It
4-20-2021 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • Vaccine Requirements – Delta, Delta
  • Health Crisis beyond COVID-19
  • What to do with the Anger
  • Business Lunch & Family Dinner
4-13-2021 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • Turn It to the Positive Side
    • Signs of Church Revitalization
  • Condition of the Core
  • Church Resurrections
  • “The Great Reshuffling”
  • It’s All About the Neighborhood
4-6-2021 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • The Word of God for the People of God​
    • In the locked room​
  • For fear of our own people​
  • Peace on this side of the Covid Curve​
  • Sent into this World​
  • The shape of a decade
3-30-2021 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • This could be the hardest period for pastors and church leaders
    • On the way to Jerusalem
  • After “a year of no hugs and unchanging surroundings”
  • Issues on the way…
  • Leaving it there…
  • On the way … Together
3-23-2021 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • Post-Pandemic Church Predictions
    • Competition​
    • Counting​
    • Cornerstones​
    • Conspiracy​
    • Carnal Incarnation​
    • Consciousness
3-16-2021 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • Dr. Lisa Allgood Update
  • Post Half-Time realities – The Rules of the Game Change
  • Percolating hostility (in the church of all places!)
  • Empathy as Emotional Intelligence and COVID Skill
  • Social Skills as Emotional Intelligence and COVID Skill
3-9-2021 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • COVID-19: Vaccination Employment Issues
  • Playing the Game vs In the Game: Self-Awareness
  • First Quarter: Self-Regulation
  • Second Quarter: Motivation
3-2-2021 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • A YEAR of COVID
  • Electronic Meetings
  • Reconciliation Conversations
2-23-2021 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • Holy Week & Easter
  • Here We Go Again – Great Ideas
    • Holy Week
    • Easter
  • Replacements & Substitutions
  • Now With Longer Perspective​
2-16-2021 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • COVID-19
    • Variants
    • Double Masking
  • The Lenten Journey
    • As Congregations
    • As the Presbytery
  • Prayer and the Lenten Journey
2-9-2021 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • COVIDACTNOW.org
  • Nieuwhof Disruptive Trends that will Rule 2021
    • Growing Churches Will Shift from Gathering to Connecting
    • Growing Churches Will See the Internet and Buildings Differently
    • Generational Differences – Clearer Than Ever
  • Content vs Community/Connection
    • Balance
    • When to ramp up? When to pull back?
2-2-2021 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • It’s Groundhog Day
  • What is the status of Faith in the US
    • Pew research
    • Resonances
  • Superbowl of Church life in COVID
    • Quarterbacking the Church
    • Long-term experience vs. Young experimentation
1-26-2021 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • A Clarion Call for Unity
  • Unity in the Church
  • Congregational Unity
  • Unity and Core Principles for Vibrancy
1-19-2021 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • Oh, Covid-19 – A Firm Grasp
    • The virus
    • The vaccine
    • The vigilance
  • PPP#2 – Applications
  • Resilience in a time of assault
  • Prayerful Repose
1-12-2021 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • Oh, Covid-19 – “I’m still here.”
  • PPP Update (Since Last Week)
  • Wednesday, January 6, 2021
  • Prayerful Response
  • Public Discourse and Ecclesiastical Discussion
  • What YOU say matters
1-5-2021 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • PPP Round 2
  • Ash Wednesday – Round 1
  • New Year: Stepping Boldly into the Future

2020

12-15-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • PPP S Form
  • Year End: Housing Allowances, New 1099
  • Email: Phishing, Spam, Spoof
  • March/April Doomsday Predictions
  • Vaccine – Delivery and Ready to Give an Answer
  • Advent Love
12-8-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • PPP Loan Forgiveness
  • Session Records Review
  • First Line of Defense in a Pandemic
  • NIH Director on Doing the “Altruistic, Loving Thing”
  • December Tuesday Together Schedule
  • Joy 
12-1-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • To Thine Own Self Be True​
  • Congregational Leader as Emergency Service Personnel​
    • Thriving​
    • Surviving​
    • Struggling​
    • In Crisis​
  • Peace
11-24-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

COME TO THE TABLE
A Gather Around the Table OPEN Discussion using a guiding
question ​

  • The Narthex Table​
  • The Coffee Table​
  • The Communion Table​
  • The Kids Table​
  • The Kitchen Table​
  • The Conference Room Table​
  • The Fellowship Hall Table​
  • The Thanksgiving Table
11-17-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • Here we go again—Positivity Rate Soars​
  • Recommendations of the Presbytery​
  • Recommendations of the Hive​
  • How time is “mushy right now”​
  • The Stories of Covid
11-10-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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  • Tropical Storm – How did you fair?
  • Honest talk about what just happened here
  • Oh the Numbers – worst week yet with COVID cases
11-3-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • Presbytery Assembly November 14
  • Boy Scouts Bankruptcy—what to do if a troop ever met in the church
  • In the face of tension and division – In the Church and beyond
  • Gayle King: “It’s no wonder a lot of people are on edge.”
  • Where we find ourselves – rising tensions
  • How we respond?
    • Foundational Understandings
    • Following the Lectionary – Joshua and Matthew
10-27-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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  • Holy Days, Seasons, Festivals, and Holidays Idea Summit
    • October 27 at Tuesday Together
    • Exchange of Materials
  • What is the main thing/s to keep in mind & hold in heart
    • All Saints’ Day
    • Thanksgiving
    • Advent
    • Nativity/Christmas
10-20-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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  • Holy Days, Seasons, Festivals, and Holidays Idea Summit
    • October 27 at Tuesday Together
    • Exchange of Materials
  • Reformation Sunday – On Change as the Way Forward
    • Reality check on return to Jerusalem
    • Enduring shifts posts COVID
  • Vibrant Together: Vital Worship – Workshop One Part 2
    • What are the Vital Signs
    • Taking the Pulse of our Worship
10-13-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • PPP Forgiveness application needs to be completed
    • Almost all churches qualify to do the EZ form
  • Vibrant Together: Vital Worship – Workshop One
    • What are the Vital Signs
    • Taking the Pulse of our Worship
10-6-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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  • Applying Liminality to Tropical Florida and this “season”
  • Threats
    • Anxiety, Disorientation, Denial, Shifting Power Dynamics, The Emergence of Tricksters
  • What Great Listeners Actually Do
  • PTF churches: Rates for Re-Starting In-Person
9-29-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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  • DeSantis and the News Headlines
  • Implications for Churches and Resuming In-Person gatherings
  • What of grenades like “hoax” and “socialism”
  • When the fence is down…
  • Applying Liminality to Tropical Florida and this “season”
9-22-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • Applying Liminality to Tropical Florida and this “season”
  • Opportunities
    • Communitas, Innovation, Rediscovery of Core, Cultivating Collective Wisdom
  • The Discernment of Ezra
9-15-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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  • Purposeful Action during COVID-19
    • Fostering Experiments
    • Embracing Failure
    • Replacing Repetition with Iteration
    • Naming What is Arising
    • Waiting for Simplicity on the Other Side of Complexity
9-8-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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  • Remote Community Building 
    • Strengths, Assets, Resilience
  • Leadership Twists
    • The Absence of Feedback
    • Remote Availability Weariness
    • Lugging Along Everyone’s Baggage
  • Skills Building – Discovering a Sermon with Craig Dykstra
9-8-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • Remote Community Building 
    • Strengths, Assets, Resilience
  • Leadership Twists
    • The Absence of Feedback
    • Remote Availability Weariness
    • Lugging Along Everyone’s Baggage
  • Skills Building – Discovering a Sermon with Craig Dykstra
9-1-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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  • Vibrant Together Grants
    • Request for Proposals (see below)
    • Focus on Disciple Making and Vital Worship
  • Looking at the world (COVID and the CHURCH) from 4 views
    • Structural Frame – Rational
    • Human Resource Frame – People
    • Political Frame – Conflict
    • Symbolic Frame – Meaning
8-25-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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  • PCUSA- Black Lives Matter Week of Action​
  • COVID-19…INTERVIEW WITH LISA ALLGOOD – WOWZERS!
    • Long-term Effects on the Body
    • Reality of Wide Use of a Vaccine
    • Turn the AC Off Before People Get in the Room
    • No Singing
8-25-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

PDF FileTopics:

  • PCUSA- Black Lives Matter Week of Action​
  • COVID-19…INTERVIEW WITH LISA ALLGOOD – WOWZERS!
    • Long-term Effects on the Body
    • Reality of Wide Use of a Vaccine
    • Turn the AC Off Before People Get in the Room
    • No Singing
8-18-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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  • PCUSA- Black Lives Matter Week of Action​
  • What’s Brewing Out in the Atlantic​
  • Cleaning House​
  • The Nature of the Prayer of Confession​
  • Saturday’s Assembly
8-11-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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  • Blurred Lines between the Personal and Pulpit
  • Social Media – It’s the Prince/It’s the Pits
  • Social Media – My Page/The Church Page
  • Social Media – Your Brand First; Your Content Second
  • Political Tensions Amplified
  • Personal Relationships Online:  Digital Distancing & Immediate Intimacy
8-4-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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  • One down…how many to go?  Isaias
  • Its AUGUST – A longer view of 2020
  • What about budgets, forecasting, and stewardship
  • Program modifications
  • Pastor’s Convocation Registration
  • August Assembly 
7-28-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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  • How to shape a Christian Education program for the fall
  • Taking your CE program online
  • Sunday School
  • Bible Study for Adults – what is being done currently
    • Learning from each other
  • Book Study Groups
  • When Small Group ministry goes online
    • Study
    • Fellowship
    • New groups
7-21-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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  • Numbers are out of this world​
  • Close it down or open it up​
  • How to make people feel safer in such a volatile environment:​
    • Helps from the wider culture​
    • Prompts from the church​
    • Spiritual practices​
      • What are the apt spiritual practices in this moment?​
      • What menu items are being offered by your church?
7-14-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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  • An introduction to the next markers on the Ministry Map
  • Congregational meetings & Electing officers
  • Examining & Training officers
  • Ordaining and Installing officers
  • Receiving members and public recognition
  • Baptisms
  • PLUS – What to do when someone at church/school is exposed to COVID-19
7-7-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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  • Reading the tea leaves
  • Reflections on where you and your church are
  • Re-imagining (no, we are not talking about that conference)
  • Re-thinking the time-table
  • Re-contextualization—a reworking of the Sitz-im-Leben as the exiles return
6-30-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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  • General Assembly – From Lament to Hope
  • Financial Items – The Latest and Greatest
  • Hurricane Prep Planning
  • Fall Planning – Including August Assembly
  • Pastors Convocation
6-23-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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  • 224 General Assembly Update
  • Next Frontier – 10 Guidelines for Pastoral Care During the Coronavirus Outbreak
6-16-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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  • PPP Flexibility Act (8 Changes)
  • Office Life – Reopening Offices to Administrative Staff
  • How Do We Support Our Staff
  • And…the Numbers (Are Going Up)
  • Session: Action & Voting Alignment
  • Property Use
6-9-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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  • Leave Time
  • For Such a Time as This – Matthew 25 (Racial Justice Resource)
  • “Do Me a Favor, Open the Door and Let ’em In”
  • What’s the 411 About the New Sunday Morning
6-2-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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  • Level 4 Matrix – Opening and Optimizing
  • This is a Disruption and Not an Interruption
    • Church
    • Systemic Racism
    • Vocational Identity
5-26-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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  • Payment Protection Plan (PPP) – Updates on Loan Forgiveness
  • COVID-19 Through the Lens of Community Trauma and the Change it is Fostering
  • Resources for Processing Trauma
5-19-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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  • The Confliction of Perceptions and Voices Around COVID-19
    • In My Neighborhood
    • In My Church
    • In My Theological Reflection
5-12-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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  • Re-Opening and Resuming Discussion Tools
  • Financial Resources
  • Vibrant Christ-Centered Communities…Have Spiritual Depth
  • The Focused Picture of Mapping the Way forward
    • Spiritual Depth
5-5-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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  • Re-Opening and Resuming Plans
  • The Focused Picture of Mapping the Way Forward
    • Reconciliation
    • Clarity of Identity
4-28-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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  • It is May!…Re-Open?  How About Now?
  • Vital Worship – The Focus Picture of Mapping the Way Forward
4-21-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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  • The Front-Line Picture on the Re-Opening Phase
4-14-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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  • Time for Some Structure Around the Chaotic?
  • Adaptive vs. Technical Work – Ron Heifetz
  • Holy Week During the Pandemic
  • Technology – Yikes! I Need Help
4-7-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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  • Checking in with Each Other
  • Open Questions on Finance and Stewardship
  • Holy Week During the Pandemic
3-31-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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  • Session Mindfulness (And Leader Mindfulness)
  • Where is Your Anxiety or What is this Time Like for You?
  • Stewardship, Finances, Loans
  • Sacraments and Holy Week
3-24-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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Topics:

  • Worship Innovations
  • Ministry Matters – Connections, Connections, Connections
3-17-2020 Covid-19 Conversation

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Pandemic Preparation Matrix

  • Monitoring and Modifying
  • Determining and Distancing
  • Closing and Cancelling
  • Opening and Optimizing

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