Minister of Children & Families Jerusha Moses discusses different types of grief and how we cope with loss.
What is your style of expressing grief?
How do you process loss and pain?
What helps you when you experience grief?
Minister of Children & Families Jerusha Moses discusses different types of grief and how we cope with loss.
What is your style of expressing grief?
How do you process loss and pain?
What helps you when you experience grief?
Rev. Jacque Green reflects on communal grief in light of a world dealing with Covid-19.
Articles and Books Mentioned in this Podcast:
Scripture References
Spiritual Practices (not mentioned)
Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us. Adele Ahlberg Calhoun, 2015
Christy Foldenauer talks to us today about the change cycle, and how we process change, from loss to integration. This podcast is a supplement to Tabernacle’s ongoing discernment dialogue, exploring what God has in store for the little church at Grove and Meadow and also the universal Church.
What do you think?
How does understanding this change model understand yourself and others?
What part does discipleship play in helping the congregation work through this cycle?
Where are you prone to get stuck in this cycle?
If this cycle is a map, where are you right now?
Comment below or add your thoughts to the Communal Journal.
We all know that churches tend to move through cycles, inevitable and natural for us to do so. Our willingness to look into the mirror and share what we’re seeing is important. Are we all seeing the same image of our little church when we look into the mirror? We are indebted to Dr. Tracy Hartman, one of our beloved members, for introducing us to “Life Cycles of a Congregation”
Tracy-Hartman-lifecycles-“Savy churches will constantly engage in the ongoing work of renewal….. and move with courage into the risks involved in living into. “
-Dr Tracy Hartman
Comment below or add your thoughts to our Communal Journal.
Pastor Meg Lacy Vega talks to us about how congregations function differently depending on their size.
This podcast is a supplement to our ongoing discernment dialogue as we explore what God has in store for our congregation and the universal church. We invite you to listen each week as we share thoughts, articles, questions, and ideas about our discernment process.
You can read more about church size dynamics in the article Leadership and Church Size Dynamics: How Strategy Changes with Growth by Time Keller.
Spencer Law reads and reflects on the article Leading Beyond the Blizzard: Why Every Organization Is Now a Startup by Andy Crouch, Kurt Keilhacker, and Dave Blanchard.
A brief summary (pulled from the article) is provided here:
After reading or listening to this article, what do you think it has to say to the current state of our church? Is it correct in its assertions?
What have you learned between March (when this article was written) and now?