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Dec 17 2020

New Year, Same Challenges. Follow the Light!

by Mary C. Frances

We couldn’t have imagined we’d still be here last March. No, we couldn’t have imagined then that we would still be here now but here we are physically distanced, doing drive-through worship, showing up on Zoom, Facebook Live, and YouTube.  And, somehow, some way…by the grace of God, it’s working, it’s all working.  And it needs to keep working for quite some time.

Recently I had the opportunity to spend some time talking with a public health expert.  Someone who lives in the world of exposures and workplace safety.  Someone who has no skin in the game except to keep people safe.  He said hunker down.  The worst is yet to come.  We have another 9-12 months ahead of us before we can feel safe gathering in groups indoors.  A year?!  Another year?  We definitely didn’t see that coming last March!  

But maybe that news could be freeing.  Rather than looking ahead for each corner we need to turn in order to go back to the way things were before, what if we let go of that and just focus on what’s ahead, focus on the new year?  What if we dove into the next year with creativity, energy, grace, and adaptability without worrying about being in our buildings?  Could this be our best year of ministry yet?

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Written by Mary Frances · Categorized: COVID-19, FaithX Blog · Tagged: Adaptability, Baptism of Jesus, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID19, Epiphany, Facebook, Festival of Light, House Blessing, Luminaries, online worship, pandemic, public health, Three Kings DAy, YouTube, Zoom

Dec 03 2020

Announcing our 2021 Webinars (Part 1)

Co-sponsored by Gathering of Leaders and Episcopal Church Foundation

After ending 2020 on a high note (our webinar on Covid-19 Impact and Recovery Planning sold out!), we are announcing our webinar schedule through June and our webinar topics through April.

As always, we remain open to your suggestions and requests (submit to info@faithx.net). 

Here is our webinar schedule through May 2020:

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Written by Ken Howard · Categorized: Uncategorized · Tagged: Capital Campaigns, Carl Johnson, collaborative ministry, Community Connections, congregational vitality assessment, COVID, COVID-19, Episcopal Church Foundation, Gathering of Leaders, leadership transitions, public health, rural perspective, structural racism, systemic racism, Webinar, webinar series

Sep 24 2020

Public Health Expert on Tap: What’s Ahead for Congregations

by Mary Frances

I was scrolling through my Facebook feed last week and came upon a congregation having a midweek service. The camera angle was from the back of the congregation and the quality wasn’t great but I could still see what was going on. People looked kind of spread out around the space. A few were moving around. I didn’t see anyone wearing a mask but some with their backs to the camera might have been. A worship leader was standing in front of a microphone at the top of the center aisle. She spoke about a song she wanted them to sing during Sunday worship and was going to teach it to them right then, let them practice it. I was so surprised! I felt like I could have been watching a super spreader event in action, somehow complicit by just watching. I quickly moved on.

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Written by Mary Frances · Categorized: COVID-19, FaithX Blog · Tagged: Carl Johnson, Certified Industrial Hygienist, Certified Safety Professional, congregational prayers, congregational singing, COVID-19, COVID19, in-person worship, online worship, public health, safe gathering spaces, super-spreader events

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