We invite you to take part in a conversation initiated by a post by Dr. Stephen Baldwin, Executive & Personal Coach at Trailhead Coaching, and Spiritual Director of The Genesis Project, Inc., in which he discusses and advocates mentoring relationships for emerging pastors.

Local pastors face new challenges in growing their churches during the 21st century, as a new generation increasingly moves away from conventional religious structures. A Pew Research Center report from October 2012 found that nearly 20 percent of the Americans are religiously unaffiliated, up from just over 15 percent five years before. The growth of the religiously unaffiliated appears largely generational, as 32 percent of adults under 30 are religiously unaffiliated compared to only 9 percent of those 65 and older, according to the report. For today’s pastors, the challenge is how to get those young people to church.

Collection plates are growing even lighter as Protestant church member giving reached new lows in 2011, and tithing probably will not recover from the recession, according to a new report by a Christian research group. Giving has declined for four consecutive years, according to the report, comparable only to the prolonged decline in giving during the Great Depression.

Every year, men complete their seminary training and embark upon what they expect to be a lifetime of ministry in the church.

The PCA’s Women in the Church (WIC) ministry will host its annual Leadership Conference on Feb. 20-22.

Duncan is a well-known theologian, pastor, preacher and churchman not only in the PCA but across the spectrum of evangelical and Reformed churches.

Pastor David Silvernail sees God at work in the PCA, and he points to seven of the clearest examples.

On Oct. 26, children’s ministry staff, teachers, parents, and volunteers will gather at Westminster PCA in Atlanta for the “What About the Children?” Conference.

North Park Presbyterian Church was shrinking. Like many churches with an aging population, the congregation in Jackson, Miss., was struggling to fill the pews.

About six weeks ago, byFaith posted an article on the book “Resilient Ministry: What Pastors Told Us About Surviving and Thriving,” authored by Bob Burns, Tasha Chapman, and Donald Guthrie and based on seven years of research and interviews. As a follow-up to this article, Reasoning Together interviewed the authors.