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Two Questions: Andrew Root

Seminary Corner: The Joy of Shared Life 

A Place, a Purpose, and an Invitation to Belong

Two Questions: Douglas Powe, Jr.

Regathering and Reconnecting Your Church Community

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Two Questions: Andrew Root

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Andrew RootAuthorProfessor, Youth and Family MinistryLuther Seminary, USA   In each edition of IG Mix, we ask a guest writer two questions about serving in ministry. What keeps you up at night? I’m sure I’m not alone, but I’ve found it harder to sleep during the pandemic. I suppose I could have (maybe even should have) treated the lockdowns as an opportunity to hibernate. Unable to control the crisis, I should have controlled what I could and caught up, even stored up, on sleep. But the crisis throbbed with an anxiety that kept me from rest and peace. I couldn’t...

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Seminary Corner: The Joy of Shared Life 

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  Andre Jordan “AJ” Wallace Second-Year Student Princeton Seminary AJ, right, in an intergenerational Sunday morning ministry during his internship.           I had the joy of working at a church for the first time this summer. I held very little to no expectations about how the summer would unfold. While I can say numerous things about the wonderful experience I had as a seminary intern, I want to share what I believe was one of the greatest lessons I learned this summer – the power of presence. More specifically, the power of people showing up in...

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A Place, a Purpose, and an Invitation to Belong

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Liz PerraudExecutive DirectorGenOn Ministries Robin Humphreys serves as the National Director of the Presbyterian Children and Family Ministry for the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand. Robin and I first met at the 2019 InterGenerate Conference in Nashville, Tennessee when she was back in the States visiting family. She grew up in North Carolina and in 2017 she and her “kiwi” husband, Paul, moved to his hometown of Christchurch, New Zealand. Recently, Robin shared with me about her experiences with a LOGOS ministry during her college years.   Liz: Can you describe your introduction to a LOGOS ministry? Robin: I was...

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Two Questions: Douglas Powe, Jr.

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Douglas Powe, Jr.Director, Lewis Center for Church Leadership James C. Logan Professor of Evangelism, Wesley Theological Seminary       In each edition of IG Mix, we ask a guest writer two questions about serving in ministry. What keeps you up at night? Trying to help congregations bridge the gap between the hunger younger generations have for deepening their spirituality and the role churches can play in doing so keeps me up at night.  The lack of intergenerational presence in many congregations is troubling given the fact that even some nones see themselves as spiritual.  The challenge is they do...

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Regathering and Reconnecting Your Church Community

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  Liz PerraudExecutive DirectorGenOn Ministries     It’s the summer of 2021, and we’re gazing ahead to fall. How are you doing? Can we help? Recently, GenOn hosted an online Round Table to discuss Sunday morning intergenerational faith formation. We Zoomed and all shared ideas, benefits, and how to make potential hybrid settings work.  One participant observed that people have become comfortable worshipping from home (good!), Sunday mornings are more relaxed (awesome!), but that maybe people need motivation to return to in-person church community (aha!). A bit of inertia has settled in after more than a year of being home....

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