Is your Congregation Spiritually and Emotionally Strong?
Diane Kenaston, Resources, Assessment Good Friday Collaborative Diane Kenaston, Resources, Assessment Good Friday Collaborative

Is your Congregation Spiritually and Emotionally Strong?

Depending on the church’s other strengths (in People, Finance, and Building), options may include revitalizing, relocating, redeveloping property, merging, yoking, or faithfully completing. These paths all require robust spirituality and the ability to address conflict, change, and uncertainty. Discerning the future is easier when a faith community has a joyful sense of God at work, healthy approaches to conflict resolution, and a willingness to adapt and experiment.

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Denominational Resources for Closing and Merging Churches
Diane Kenaston, Church Closure, Resources, Merger Good Friday Collaborative Diane Kenaston, Church Closure, Resources, Merger Good Friday Collaborative

Denominational Resources for Closing and Merging Churches

Denominational resources for church closure and merger include congregationalist and centralized polities. Read more from Baptist, Lutheran, Episcopalian, Methodist, Presbyterian, Unitarian, Reformed, Anglican, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), United Church of Christ, Catholic, Quaker, and uniting churches.

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Church Closure in Five Stages
Sara Nave-Fisher, Resources Good Friday Collaborative Sara Nave-Fisher, Resources Good Friday Collaborative

Church Closure in Five Stages

As we at Good Friday Collaborative resource clergy and churches who are concluding ministry, we have noticed five distinct Stages of ministry endings that most communities move through. While every church has their own unique story and process of ending, these general Stages can help make sense of the natural work of endings.

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