Outreach

Article Time & Money: Taking Your Church to the Community
- By Sarah Cunningham
- Posted on March 28th, 2013
I’ve read that you can tell a lot about what a person values by looking at what he or she spends time and money on. I think we could use these same indicators to learn…
Article Time Your Egg Hunt Right to Get Visitors in Worship
- By Kara Witherow
- Posted on February 7th, 2013
Nearly 5,000 people attended one of Harvest United Methodist Church’s five egg hunts, which were held immediately following five of the church’s eight Easter worship…
Article Healing Through Art
- By Juanita Campbell Rasmus
- Posted on October 28th, 2012
It has been said that most of us cease being actively engaged in any type of creative expression on a regular basis once we leave elementary school. What an incredible loss to…
Article What Are You Known For?
- By Dottie Escobedo-Frank
- Posted on October 24th, 2012
Does your community know your church exists? If so, how do they describe you? Are you described as “elderly,” “boring,” “anglo,”…
Article Organized Religion: Decline, Opportunity, and Hope
- By Alex Joyner
- Posted on September 12th, 2012
“The Bear Market in GOD” Joe Weisenthal, deputy editor of the Business Insider website, put this provocative title on a graph that showed a dramatic downwardtrending…
Article Increase Worship Attendance
- By Jessica Miller Kelley
- Posted on August 21st, 2012
In a recent stewardship article, Bob Crossman's first suggestion for increasing giving is to increase worship attendance, since most people will not give when they do not come…