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Every Priest is an Interim Priest
“According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it.” (I Corinthians 3:10)...
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The $50,000 Parish Program or Project Development for Spiritual Development
“We pray for miracles and work for results.” – St. Augustine of Hippo The text below is adapted from the business environment and applied to the nonprofit environment, specifically an Orthodox...
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Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Peter Drucker This article is adapted from Chapter 1 of Cracking Your Church’s Culture Code by Samuel R. Chand. He is a former Pastor, college President,...
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The Orthodox Clergy Survey 2015 (Full Report)
Mosaic of Jesus Christ as the Good Shepherd Ravenna, Italy, circa 450 A.D. The results are in with an encouraging and credible rate of response for the Orthodox Clergy Survey. Four bishops, 285...
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Storytelling in Church Leadership – Introduction
“When we fulfill our humanity as God intended, we are prophetic, priestly, pastoral people. All of us. Every one of us.” (Fr. Thomas Hopko) Introduction In a recent survey on contemporary parish...
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Planned Giving is Visionary and Strategic Giving
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” (Peter Drucker) The vision of a parish is the formulation and articulation of the mission of the parish in future terms. Planned giving is very...
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Is Your Parish Ready for Envisioning and Serious Planning? An Eight-point...
“Yes the future is always in the hands of God but he accords to us the privilege of participating in shaping the future.” (Anthony Scott) There are three key elements to sustain change: honest...
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Five Essential Elements of a Successful Parish Leadership Development Program
“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!”...
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Powerpoints and More Powerpoints
Though many readers of the newsletter and visitors to the Stewardship Advocates website may be aware of helpful Powerpoint resources for parish development, statistics show that 75% of visitors to...
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Powerpoint: The Parish Endowment
View or download the Powerpoint as a PDF file: Parish Endowment The post Powerpoint: The Parish Endowment appeared first on Stewardship Advocates.
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