Closing a Congregation — Writing

A Service of Lament, for the One-Year Anniversary of COVID

This week is the one year anniversary of our collective lives changing due to COVID-19. Even if your congregation is meeting in-person, likely it does not look the same as it did in February of 2020... not to mention the other ways our lives have changed. What follows is a Service of Lament I'll be using in my congregation this Sunday, in the vein of Tenebrae.

Congregational Resources, LiturgyMarch 9, 2021Church, Liturgy, Closing a CongregationComment

Heavy hearts and Hopeful spirits (on closing a congregation)

Here’s what’s most remarkable about this announcement, and what I want to make very clear:

Rolling Oaks Christian Church did not die.

And… that’s what makes this heartbreaking, and so important.

Congregational Resources, Ministry ReflectionsJanuary 31, 2021Church, Closing a CongregationComment