Jan 12 2021

New Date for Congregational Vitality Webinar: January 27 (Wed) from 1:00-2:00pm

Dear Readers,

We have received a large number of requests from both current and perspective registrants to delay our Assessing & Addressing Congregational Vitality webinar for a week, in light of the events of last week and in deference to the upcoming inauguration. To that end, we are pushing the webinar back one week.

The new date and time is:
January 27 (Wed) from 1:00-2:00pm

If for some reason you are unable to attend the new date, you have two options:

Request a refund through EventBrite.
Stay registered and receive the webinar recording.

Hope to see most of you on the 27th!

Blessings and thanks!
Ken+

The Rev. Ken Howard
Executive Director – FaithX
www.faithx.net

* FYI, In response to our poll of registrants, all but one said they could accommodate the date change, and that person said they would choose option 2.

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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Oct 15 2020

Upcoming Webinars from FaithX

And an invitation to submit suggestions

It’s more than a little ironic that we are announcing our late 2020/early 2021 webinars right at the eighth month of the Coronavirus pandemic, the first month of the regular flu season, and three weeks away from a national election that is shows every sign of being a referendum on the government’s response to the Covid crisis. Sprinkle that with a pandemic-induced recession and social upheaval over systemic racism, and we’ve got ourselves a “perfect storm.”

Still, your response to our 3rd Wednesday webinars has been strong, and you’ve been asking for more, and even sending us suggestions for webinar topics you’d like us to offer, so here we are. And here is our webinar schedule through March 2020:

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Oct 08 2020

Engaging in Life and Ministry “Beyond Covid”

by Steve Matthews

What now? How long? What’s next? As a country we are in our 8^th month of this pandemic. We continue to protest/ explore/ address/ ignore our racial inequities. The west coast burns, and we round the alphabet on hurricane names in the gulf and Atlantic. Next month we will have a critical election for federal, state, and local leadership… and then there is the Supreme Court. There’s probably more, but suffice it to say, we have our hands more than full.

What does it mean to “be” church in the middle of all of this? It’s no wonder people yearn to get back into their church buildings and to return to “normal.” For many of us, these buildings represent a sense of belonging, beauty, safety, hope. These are places where we have experienced community and God’s love fleshed out. This is where many of us feel inspired and strengthened for the journey.

But here we are, and how are we as people of faith called to show up in this “now?” How do we look at our world in ways that help us move beyond reaction?

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Sep 10 2020

Webinar Reminder

Leave No One Behind: How to Lead a Hybrid Congregation (9/16 – 1:00pm ET)

Webinar Description:

In times like these, it’s true that you can’t go home again, at least not if you’re a congregation and not if you expect it to be the same as when you left it. The impact of COVID-19 has changed all of our congregations for good. Our online worship services have brought new people to worship, young and old, some of which you will never see again if you try to bring your congregational life to its pre-COVID state.

Participants in the webinar will explore ways to restart in-person worship, fellowship, formation, and other ministries, without abandoning the gains (and the people) of our online church presence.

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