Church Innovations Institute

17/11/2021

We have one more free webinar this year coming up on December 1 at 12 eastern. We hope you can join us! Register today!

Join us this fall for a continuation of our free webinars designed to help local churches navigate the unknown territory we find ourselves in. In our first three webinars, we explored worship, preaching, and spiritual practices in the midst of a pandemic. Throughout this fall, we are intentionally p...

21/10/2021

"I spent time recently with a friend who leads a Church of Christ as a minister. He told me that the elders of his congregation had hired a consulting group to come in and help them determine a strategic direction for their church. This process included a congregational survey with a follow-up consultation Zoom meeting and subsequent visit to the congregation..."

I spent time recently with a fried who leads a Church of Christ as a minister. He told me that the elders of his congregation had hired a consulting group to come in and help them determine a strat…

07/10/2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_YlLqMm8Y8&t=5s

Last week, we hosted the first in our series of Fall Webinars. We hope you will consider tuning in for the remainder of our series. Check out the dates and get more information here:

https://churchinnovations.org/Free-Webinar-Series-

Pastor Beth Horsch in conversation with Church Innovations Practitioners Mark Love, Pat Keifert, and Nathan Pickard.

06/10/2021

"Grief is hard work. We’d rather try to win back what we’ve lost than grieve the loss. And we’re conditioned to deny death, to minimize our losses and pretend everything is ok. Grief makes us face reality, to name our pain and even admit things will never be again what they once were..."

A few months ago, a group hosted by Church Innovations, gathered in Yellowstone for a little fly fishing and theology. Well, a lot of fly fishing and some theology. In the evenings, we would turn o…

05/10/2021

Today we begin Season 3 of "Innovating Church." In this episode, podcast host, Rachel Stout, talks with Pat Keifert and Nigel Rooms about Partnership for Missional Church and the 6 Missional Practices.

🎙️Season 3, Episode 1: Interview with Nigel Rooms and Pat Keifert

👉Check it out on our website or wherever you subscribe to podcasts:
➡https://churchinnovations.org/podcast
➡https://www.buzzsprout.com/536644/episodes/9315255

01/10/2021

Interested in a collaborative preaching journey through Advent this year? Find out more on our website.

Mission, Advent, and Preaching: We are excited to journey together through the season of Advent - preparing, learning, and growing together as we consider how to best lead communities through missional innovation. Facilitated by Dr. Mark Love, Lead Practitioner with Church Innovations, Director of the Missional Leadership MRE program at Rochester University, and professor/practitioner of homiletics.

Mission, Advent, and Preaching: We are excited to journey together through the season of Advent - preparing, learning, and growing together as we consider how to best lead communities through missional innovation. Facilitated by Dr. Mark Love, Lead Practitioner with Church Innovations, Director of t...

16/09/2021

Join us this fall for a continuation of our free webinars designed to help local churches navigate the unknown territory we find ourselves in. Throughout this fall, we are intentionally placing the conversation in the context of local congregations trying to navigate grief, conflict, discernment, and adaptive change.

Grief - Wednesday, September 29 @ 12 eastern

From Shakespeare to Tolkien to Michael Sarnoski’s new movie Pig, authors, directors, musicians, and artists have given us great works focused on grief. Most of us have felt grief at some point in our own lives. But what happens when an event causes the whole church or even all of society to grieve together? Join Church Innovations for a conversation on grief, grieving together, and starting the journey of healing. Register today!

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DYL4TC_qSouzIHUSxKjmmw

17/08/2021

Join us this fall for a continuation of our free webinars designed to help local churches navigate the unknown territory we find ourselves in. In our first three webinars, we explored worship, preaching, and spiritual practices in the midst of a pandemic. Throughout this fall, we are intentionally placing the conversation in the context of local congregations trying to navigate grief, conflict, discernment, and adaptive change.

Grief - Wednesday, September 29 @ 12 eastern

From Shakespeare to Tolkien to Michael Sarnoski’s new movie Pig, authors, directors, musicians, and artists have given us great works focused on grief. Most of us have felt grief at some point in our own lives. But what happens when an event causes the whole church or even all of society to grieve together? Join Church Innovations for a conversation on grief, grieving together, and starting the journey of healing. Register today!

From Shakespeare to Tolkien to Michael Sarnoski’s new movie Pig, authors, directors, musicians, and artists have given us great works focused on grief. Most of us have felt grief at some point in our own lives. But what happens when an event causes the whole church or even all of society to grieve...

13/08/2021

"When I see congregations that have built themselves to be comforting places of refuge from the world for their members, I have to say that while comfort and support is important, it is important because it equips us to do God’s work IN AND ON BEHALF OF THE WORLD that God loves, not just to make us feel good among ourselves..."

Gifts and Vocation – Ephesians 4 by Dr. Pat Taylor Ellison - CI Director of Research Emerita A text – Ephesians 4: 1-16. 4:1 I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a l...

10/08/2021

Save the dates! Look for more info in the coming days!

Join us this fall for a continuation of our free webinars designed to help local churches navigate the unknown territory we find ourselves in. In our first three webinars, we explored worship, preaching, and spiritual practices in the midst of a pandemic. Throughout this fall, we are intentionally placing the conversation in the context of local congregations trying to navigate grief, conflict, discernment, and adaptive change.

19/07/2021

"In 1979, Fred Craddock sparked something of a revolution in homiletics with the publication of his book, As One Without Authority. He argued that preachers faced each week a congregation overly familiar with the themes and texts of Christianity. This familiarity actually hindered listeners in the preaching moment from hearing something startling and new, and a message that would demand more of their lives. Preachers, too, were more accustomed to delivering deductive sermons that reinforced what people already knew. They were preaching as ones with authority...."

In 1979, Fred Craddock sparked something of a revolution in homiletics with the publication of his book, As One Without Authority. He argued that preachers faced each week a congregation overly fam…