Tuesday Together Summaries
3-21-2023 Tuesday Together: The Way Jesus Did It
Topic:
5 Ways to Engage People the Way Jesus Did
3-14-2023 Tuesday Together: John 9:1-41
Topic:
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
Topic:
- 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
Topic:
- Ash Wednesday
- Reflections on Our Mortality
- Pray and Action
2-14-2023 Tuesday Together: Spiritual Depth and Leadership Development
Topic:
- Unexpected Grace
- Love as Leadership
- Climbing trees with Zacchaeus
- Relational, Non-Judgmental, Clarity
2-7-2023 Tuesday Together: Handling Scripture
Topic:
- January Exegesis Exam Eruption
- Ordination Exams and Trauma
- Dealing with Difficult Texts
- Dealing with Trauma in the Church
1-31-2023 Tuesday Together: Lent
Topic:
- Lent Looms Large
- Lent as a Faithful Journey
- What Might We Do
- Bold Themes
1-24-2023 Tuesday Together: Leadership Resolutions for Churches
Topic:
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
Topic:
- 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!
Topic:
- Baptism of the Lord – Heavens opened
- If God Is Love Don’t Be a Jerk by John Pavlovitz
2022
12-13-2022 Tuesday Together
Topic:
Four Ways to Make Christmas Eve Hospitality the Pattern for the Year
by Doug Powe
12-6-2022 Tuesday Together
Topic:
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
Topic:
Think Again – Adam Grant
- Interpersonal Rethinking
11-15-2022 Tuesday Together
Topic:
Think Again – Adam Grant
- Individual Rethinking –focus today
- Interpersonal Rethinking
- Collective Rethinking
11-8-2022 Tuesday Together
Topic:
The Great Reset: 7 (Real) Reasons People STILL Aren’t Coming Back to Church
By Carey Nieuwhof
11-1-2022 Tuesday Together
Topic:
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
Topic:
- 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
Topic:
From Stewardship to Generosity
10-11-2022 Tuesday Together
Topic:
Passionate Worship | Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations
– By Robert Schnase
10-4-2022 Tuesday Together
Topic:
Hurricane Ian
- When the Great Windstorm Arose
- Peace! Be Still!
- Connecting with Scripture in a Time of Travail
9-27-2022 Tuesday Together
Topic:
Radical Hospitality
- Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations | by Robert Schnase
9-20-2022 Tuesday Together
Topic:
- 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
Topic:
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
Topic:
-
FLUX
- Our New-Now-Next-Never Normal
- Run Slower
- See What’s Invisible
- Get Lost
- Start With Trust
8-30-2022 Tuesday Together
Topic:
- Hybrid Meeting
- Review and/or Reflections on Assembly 8/20
- Survey Says
- Casting Forward
8-23-2022 Tuesday Together
Topic:
Ministry Support Team
- Commitment
- Respect
- Filled with the Holy Spirit and wisdom
- Competency
- Chemistry
8-16-2022 Tuesday Together
Topic:
Vital Worship
- Review and/or Renew – Looking with Fresh Eyes
- Reformed Worship
- Gathering, Word, Eucharist, Sending
8-9-2022 Tuesday Together
Topic:
- valerie izumi
- Nominations Process
- Hope for the Future
- Reconciliation and Relationships
8-2-2022 Tuesday Together
Topic:
6 Essential Elements of Fruitful Small Group
7-26-2022 Tuesday Together
Topic:
5 Principles of Dramatic Improvisation Inform a Healthier Response to Conflict
7-19-2022 Tuesday Together
Topic:
- You asked for it!
- GA 225 in retrospect.
- Practical implications.
- What this means for folks in our pews.
7-12-2022 Tuesday Together
Topic:
Evaluations and Reviews
– A possible pattern
– GA Cycle and Review Committees
– Adaptations to Integration and Excellence
– Clarity of Identity
6-28-2022 Tuesday Together
Topic:
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
Topic:
A Simple Approach to Creating a Culture of Accountability for Ministry Leaders
6-14-2022 Tuesday Together
Topics:
-
225th General Assembly
- Resources & Tools Orientation
- Hot issues
6-7-2022 Tuesday Together
Topics:
- Seven Traits of the Successful Pastor of 2027
5-31-2022 Tuesday Together
Topics:
- From Assembly to Gathering
- Disciple Making
- Building Relationships
- Continuing the Conversation
5-24-2022 Tuesday Together
Topics:
The Ideal Team Player
- Humble
- Hungry
- Smart
5-17-2022 Tuesday Together
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- Easter Check In
- Seven Ways Your Church Must Deal with Rapid Change
4-12-2022 Tuesday Together
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- Tax-Time Tidbits – Five for Finance
- Time Marches On – Travel Log Shifts
- The Trouble of Niceness
3-29-2022 Tuesday Together
Topics:
- CT: Do Russian Christians Need More Bonhoeffers?
- Faith Leadership – From Contemplation to Action
- Intersection of Authenticity, Activism, and Faithfulness
3-22-2022 Tuesday Together
Topics:
- Authenticity
- Communicating Authentically
3-15-2022 Tuesday Together
Topics:
- Statistical Reporting
- A Shout Out
- Metrics for the 20’s
- Nine Plus Questions to Ask
- Measuring Progress
3-1-2022 Tuesday Together
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- Building Relationships
- De-briefing the Assembly
- Leadership Traits
- Evidence, Steps, Prayer
2-8-2022 Tuesday Together
Topics:
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
Topics:
- Ministry Plan 2022 –Building Relationships
- Leadership Development
- The Three Questions
- Approachable
- Psychological Safety
- Integrity
1-25-2022 Tuesday Together
Topics:
- The Big Picture of Digital Marketing
- Your Website Matters
- Key Website Considerations
1-18-2022 Tuesday Together
Topics:
- 7 Spiritual Practices for the New Year
1-11-2022 Tuesday Together with Covid Conversation
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- Being the mall in the age of Amazon
12-7-2021 Tuesday Together
Topics:
- COVID – 19
- The Uncle Fred Syndrome
- Omicron
- Consciousness of a New Normal
- Booster Bravery
- Love Note from Lisa Allgood
11-30-2021 Tuesday Together
Topics:
- Investing in Your Leadership Development
11-16-2021 Tuesday Together
Topics:
- Community Engagement
- Discover the Need
- Gather the Passionate
- Streamline the Strategy
- What to Let Go Of
11-9-2021 Tuesday Together
Topics:
- Advent and Christmas through the lens of Christ-Centered Communities
- Google Drive Resources: ADVENT | CHRISTMAS
- Other Resources: Practical Resources for Churches (prcli.org) | PTF Liturgy Materials
11-2-2021 Tuesday Together
Topics:
- NOVEMBER
- “The Church can build what it first imagines.” –Jessica Tate
- “What do we need to unlearn?” –Tod Bolsinger
10-26-2021 Tuesday Together
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- Octoberversation Three
- Engage, Equip, Encourage
- Presbytery Focus and Work
- Iteration
- Still more
- “Yes, And…”
10-12-2021 Tuesday Together
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- Weekend Celebrations
- 12 Traits of Churches Doing Well During the Pandemic
9-21-2021 Covid Conversation
Topics:
- COVID Check-in
- 5 Ways to Preach about Money More Effectively
9-14-2021 Covid Conversation
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- COVID Check in
- 7 Deadly Sins of Church Social Media
8-24-2021 Covid Conversation
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- Oh Florida! “How can this get worse?”
- Worried About Worship?
- What a World! Haiti and Afghanistan
8-10-2021 Covid Conversation
Topics:
- Up to 12 Things Churches Changed During COVID That They are Keeping After COVID – Part One
8-3-2021 Covid Conversation
Topics:
- NY Times: More Covid Mysteries
- Not in Control
- “Much, much milder”
- “Rip Through”
- No need for nihilism
7-27-2021 Covid-19 Conversation
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- Billionaire Priorities
- Congregational Priorities – Clarity of Identity
- COVID – Rheostat
- Church Tensions
7-6-2021 Covid-19 Conversation
Topics:
- Surfside Update
- COVID – “I’m Still Here.”
- 8 Habits Part 2
- Justice
- Teaching
- Fellowship
- Generosity
6-29-2021 Covid-19 Conversation
Topics:
- Trauma – Surfside Catastrophe
6-15-2021 Covid-19 Conversation
Topics:
- Optimizing Check-in
- Entrepreneurial Pastors/Leaders
- Basic Agreements
- Seven Ways Pastors (Leaders) Should Think Like an Entrepreneur
6-8-2021 Covid-19 Conversation
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- Pandemic Matrix
- Opening and Optimizing
- Going Back vs Going Forward
- Hurricane Kit
- Tax free until June
5-25-2021 Covid-19 Conversation
Topics:
- Church as Organization
- Church as Movement
- Gen Z – Yep, Those Young People
- You Might Be Ignoring Them Inadvertently
5-18-2021 Covid-19 Conversation
Topics:
- Mask Confusion
- CDC
- Vaccination Requirements
- Bombing and Terror
- Towards a Definition
- On Pentecost
5-11-2021 Covid-19 Conversation
Topics:
- COVID, In-person Worship and Stalling Vaccine Numbers
- Consumers at the Buffet
5-4-2021 Covid-19 Conversation
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- The BLAH You’re Feeling
- Numb to the Numbers
- “Leaving On a Jet Plane”
- Walk To It
4-20-2021 Covid-19 Conversation
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- Post-Pandemic Church Predictions
- Competition
- Counting
- Cornerstones
- Conspiracy
- Carnal Incarnation
- Consciousness
3-16-2021 Covid-19 Conversation
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- A YEAR of COVID
- Electronic Meetings
- Reconciliation Conversations
2-23-2021 Covid-19 Conversation
Topics:
- Holy Week & Easter
- Here We Go Again – Great Ideas
- Holy Week
- Easter
- Replacements & Substitutions
- Now With Longer Perspective
2-16-2021 Covid-19 Conversation
Topics:
- COVID-19
- Variants
- Double Masking
- The Lenten Journey
- As Congregations
- As the Presbytery
- Prayer and the Lenten Journey
2-9-2021 Covid-19 Conversation
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- A Clarion Call for Unity
- Unity in the Church
- Congregational Unity
- Unity and Core Principles for Vibrancy
1-19-2021 Covid-19 Conversation
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- PPP Round 2
- Ash Wednesday – Round 1
- New Year: Stepping Boldly into the Future
2020
12-15-2020 Covid-19 Conversation
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- To Thine Own Self Be True
- Congregational Leader as Emergency Service Personnel
- Thriving
- Surviving
- Struggling
- In Crisis
- Peace
11-24-2020 Covid-19 Conversation
Topics:
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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 224 General Assembly Update
- Next Frontier – 10 Guidelines for Pastoral Care During the Coronavirus Outbreak
6-16-2020 Covid-19 Conversation
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- Re-Opening and Resuming Plans
- The Focused Picture of Mapping the Way Forward
- Reconciliation
- Clarity of Identity
4-28-2020 Covid-19 Conversation
Topics:
- It is May!…Re-Open? How About Now?
- Vital Worship – The Focus Picture of Mapping the Way Forward
4-21-2020 Covid-19 Conversation
Topics:
- The Front-Line Picture on the Re-Opening Phase
4-14-2020 Covid-19 Conversation
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- Checking in with Each Other
- Open Questions on Finance and Stewardship
- Holy Week During the Pandemic
3-31-2020 Covid-19 Conversation
Topics:
- 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
Topics:
- Worship Innovations
- Ministry Matters – Connections, Connections, Connections
3-17-2020 Covid-19 Conversation
Pandemic Preparation Matrix
- Monitoring and Modifying
- Determining and Distancing
- Closing and Cancelling
- Opening and Optimizing