My last week of employment on staff at my church happened to be the week our people didn’t go to church at all! (I’d sent an all-church email blast with the headline, “This weekend, don’t come to church!”) Instead we had a party tailgate style at the Fox Cities Stadium. About 12-hundred came to the [...]
When I first heard about Convoy of Hope coming to our community for an outreach, it was in the context of need and hunger. One of our pastors, John Slotten, talked of last November’s Thanksgiving Day Meal and the sense he got of hopelessness and despair from the hundreds of people served that day. It [...]
A great article in the local paper today about the selection of a Neenah family to be featured on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition this week. Our own Rhex Arboleda is one you may have seen on our worship team at CTR playing the drums on weekends. Here he is reacting to the news:
These past several weeks have not been easy for many of us. Wet basements, ruined furnishings, hail damage to homes and cars, and this: I took this as I was driving in to our church from the back road. Look at the “shoreline” of this pond-size puddle, and you’ll see the sick looking stalks of [...]
If you want to communicate your brand, nothing is more powerful than a visual image of who you are and what you believe. The church where I work had some communications challenges in its lobby–the place people size you up when they walk through your doors. First, the lobby with its 30-foot soaring ceilings was [...]
If you hang around my church long enough, you might hear a pastor or a teacher ask about how our faith should “taste” to others. Taste is one of those words that is descriptive and purposeful at the same time. Taste matters when it comes to telling others about who you are and what you [...]