Articles for Outreach & Missions
12 Things Not to Say to Your Pastor This Christmas
Christmas is an opportunity to bless the leaders who bless us year-round. Choose words that uplift.
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Welcoming Special Needs Children: Your Church Needs to Improve
There are some churches that are doing wonderfully when it comes to helping the families of children with special needs. Our family has been tremendously blessed by finding one.
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When God Speaks to the Young: Integrity in Youth Ministry & Outreach
There is no doubt that young people can be powerfully used by God. Youthful optimism, un-jaded by life’s failures and disappointments, is a gift to be nurtured. But it also needs the tempering of wisdom and maturity.
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15 Ways to Keep Loving Ministry When You’re Tired
God’s greatest servants often found themselves spent, yet they pressed on because love outlasted fatigue. Ministry isn’t about perpetual motion—it’s about faithful affection for the One who called you.
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Why I Love the Local Church
I realized why I love the local church. I saw just how much I adore the local expression of the body of Christ. I received a renewed passion for this beautiful, hot mess of a bride Jesus died for.
Outreach & Missions How To's
6 Essentials of Your Church Guest Experience Strategy
Mastering the six essential disciplines of church guest experience strategy takes time and effort, but it’s something you have to do if you want to succeed in connecting with and developing relationships with your guests.
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Can Christians Gamble? How Faith Shapes the Way We Bet, Spend, and Trust
Christians are called to live differently, not by avoiding joy but by redefining it. When faith shapes the way we bet, spend, and trust, money becomes a means of worship, not worry.
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Do You Have the Key Ingredients for Growth?
Where is your congregation in their faith journey? What are you providing that will be most catalytic for their growth?
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The Best Methods for Sharing the Gospel
Your goal when sharing the Gospel should not be presentations but conversations. And to have a conversation about the Gospel you need to know what that message is from top to bottom and beginning to end.
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11 Low-Stress Christmas Outreach Ideas That Actually Work
Effective Christmas outreach ideas are less about events and more about people. Ask: Who in your community feels lonely, overwhelmed, or overlooked? How can your church bring peace instead of pressure?
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5 Questions to Ask Before Planting a Church
Many church planters have ventured out as orphans and fallen into the throes of loneliness, isolation and lack of support.
