by Kay Ahmed | Nov 8, 2018 | Featured Article, Ministry on the Edge
Standing in front of giant doors of a 150 year old Lutheran Church, she waits for the Spirit to move. DeAnne Lilly Parks, a painter and sculptor, spent most of the summer painting a mural on the outside doors of the church. Paint and brushes and willing heart at the...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Feb 23, 2018 | 21stCenturyMinistry, 21stCenturyReligion, 21stCenturySpirituality, Small Church Vitality
With few exceptions, Christian churches in America are in trouble. Membership has been trending slowly downward for decades with the most pronounced declines occurring in churches in the mainline Protestant tradition. I am not writing, however, to sound the alarm...
