For more than 20 years, a creative team at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Phoenixville has been going over the top with elaborate sets and props for the congregation’s annual Vacation Bible School. “We try to take the theme of the year and make it bigger than life,” says Bobbie, one of the core members...
Atonement Lutheran, Fishtown, and First Presbyterian, Kensington, are teaming up to host Pub Theology: Fishtown once a month at Front Street Cafe. The gathering offers “an opportunity to have honest conversations about what’s going on, that’s not on the church’s turf,” said Rev. Noah Hepler, pastor at Atonement. “This is a gathering where people can connect...
The Welcome Church is collaborating with a number of partners to provide nighttime housing for women experiencing homelessness in Center City. The shelter, called “the Well,” will open at the Church of the Crucifixion at 8th and Bainbridge Streets on Sunday, Feb. 14. It will offer a place for gathering and renewal from 7:30 pm to...
“Part of the reality for synods in the 21st century is they have to act and live differently,” Jeff Kjellberg of Kairos and Associates, consultant for Forward Together in Faith, told a gathering of congregations participating in the mission assessment process made possible by this campaign. “One way to start behaving differently is to do...
After a post of “Black Lives Matter” on the church sign sparked community controversy, Trinity Lutheran Church seized the opportunity Sept. 9 to bring members and Lansdale neighbors together to talk about issues of race in the community. “Even though this was not what we were looking for or what we wanted or expected, it...
Equipping leaders, innovative ministries and communicating the gospel are woven together through networks, said Pastor Jim Goodyear from Gloria Dei, Huntingdon Valley, introducing networks at the campaign launch. “Networking is a bunch of holy threads together. Often times it looks kind of messy,” he said, but “when you put it all together there is a...
The Forward Together in Faith initiative will be empowered in part by a networking emphasis. Pastor Jim Goodyear of Gloria Dei, Huntingdon Valley led a discussion about networking, and synod voting members viewed special videos about successful networking enterprises in synod churches and beyond. They also had fun tossing balls of yarn around to begin the art...
A large, red shipping container sits in the parking lot of the Lutheran Church of God’s Love in Newtown waiting for Saturday mornings. That’s when team members open it up and work on its transformation into a medical clinic that will serve a community near Kisumu, Kenya, Africa. The members of God’s Love heard about...
For more than 20 years, a creative team at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Phoenixville has been going over the top with elaborate sets and props for the congregation’s annual Vacation Bible School. “We try to take the theme of the year and make it bigger than life,” says Bobbie, one of the core members...
Atonement Lutheran, Fishtown, and First Presbyterian, Kensington, are teaming up to host Pub Theology: Fishtown once a month at Front Street Cafe. The gathering offers “an opportunity to have honest conversations about what’s going on, that’s not on the church’s turf,” said Rev. Noah Hepler, pastor at Atonement. “This is a gathering where people can connect...
The Welcome Church is collaborating with a number of partners to provide nighttime housing for women experiencing homelessness in Center City. The shelter, called “the Well,” will open at the Church of the Crucifixion at 8th and Bainbridge Streets on Sunday, Feb. 14. It will offer a place for gathering and renewal from 7:30 pm to...
“Part of the reality for synods in the 21st century is they have to act and live differently,” Jeff Kjellberg of Kairos and Associates, consultant for Forward Together in Faith, told a gathering of congregations participating in the mission assessment process made possible by this campaign. “One way to start behaving differently is to do...
After a post of “Black Lives Matter” on the church sign sparked community controversy, Trinity Lutheran Church seized the opportunity Sept. 9 to bring members and Lansdale neighbors together to talk about issues of race in the community. “Even though this was not what we were looking for or what we wanted or expected, it...
Equipping leaders, innovative ministries and communicating the gospel are woven together through networks, said Pastor Jim Goodyear from Gloria Dei, Huntingdon Valley, introducing networks at the campaign launch. “Networking is a bunch of holy threads together. Often times it looks kind of messy,” he said, but “when you put it all together there is a...
A large, red shipping container sits in the parking lot of the Lutheran Church of God’s Love in Newtown waiting for Saturday mornings. That’s when team members open it up and work on its transformation into a medical clinic that will serve a community near Kisumu, Kenya, Africa. The members of God’s Love heard about...
