Formal evaluations provide the opportunity to enhance ministry, improve priorities, encourage better communication and active participation. The process allows the church to grow toward mature service and caring fellowship, discover opportunities to implement better strategies, and strengthen the unity of spirit between the pastor and elders.
“Generation Z and millennials have been given much. Until they’re put in a situation where they really need God to show up, they don’t really know their need for a Savior.”
Ministerial Relief has designed the program so that the bulk of the funding will go directly to the counselors. Pastors’ wives will receive the counseling at no cost or for a small co-pay, and the program is open to all pastors’ wives.
“For 500 years the church has neglected Native American people,” said Ronan Crown. There’s virtually no trust. “We must come as a servant like Jesus Christ,” Crown says, “and journey alongside them for a long time.”
The board of trustees of Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary has appointed a presidential search committee to search for a successor to its current president, Dr. Joseph A. Pipa, Jr., who will retire from the office of president on July 1, 2021. Regarding the search, Chairman of the Board of Trustees C. Fredric Marcinak, III, said…
The goal is to help participants self-assess their ability to develop relationships across both economic and racial lines.
Though it is easy for an outgoing pastor’s thoughts to gravitate toward his legacy, his focus should be squarely on the future.
People may put themselves forward rather than trusting God to promote them in His season. This kind of behavior is almost always a failure to remember the gospel. Only God’s opinion really matters, and He has said that in Christ, believers are the apple of his eye.
Below is a summary of some of the votes taken by the 46th General Assembly on Thursday, June 14.