First person: A critical ministry role some may overlook
June 17, 2025
Sound engineers? Your role is far more critical than audio levels, EQ and running a sound board.
Church Life
Pew report shows Catholicism’s roots, challenges in American life
June 17, 2025
While reporting relatively low levels of attendance at Mass, almost half of U.S. adults (47%) say they have a personal or family relationship to Catholicism, a new Pew Research Center survey finds.
Study: Nearly half of churchgoers attend more than one church
June 16, 2025
Researchers for the multiyear Hartford Institute for Religion Research study found that 46% of some 24,000 churchgoers responding to their survey reported active engagement with more than one church.
Study: Evangelical pastors more likely to be bivocational
June 9, 2025
The National Survey of Religious Leaders report revealed 35% of all clergy in the U.S. serve bivocationally, holding an additional job outside of their congregational ministry.
How to celebrate ‘Kingdom progress’ in 2032
June 8, 2025
If your association catches a vision for imagining itself in the lead missional role in the denomination by the year 2033, you will be proactively different.
6 ways to get more families to your summer events
June 6, 2025
Your church can be known this summer for something exciting, fun and life-changing — but only if you promote it with strategy, consistency and heart.
Study: Rate of pastors leaving pulpit each year remains unchanged in last decade
May 29, 2025
Despite the unique pressures pastors routinely face, only 1.2% of evangelical and Black Protestant pastors leave the ministry each year, according to a 2025 Lifeway Research study.
‘Launch next’ with 6 years of missional engagement
May 28, 2025
Now is the time to give your associational context something to talk about — but not like the song popularized by singer Bonnie Raitt that talks about romantic love.
Is your church in trouble? Here are 12 signs there may be problems
May 25, 2025
Be aware of these signs that your church might be in trouble …
It’s a ‘lifestyle’: John McClendon encourages leaders to make disciples
May 22, 2025
John McClendon has spent his adult life helping leaders make disciples. He is executive director of the Disciple Leader’s Network, based in Tennessee, though he plans to retire at the end of the year.
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