Happy 2024, Friends!
As we look to the new year with wonder, curiosity, and excitement, we celebrate the work happening in small churches across our network. While the landscape of congregational ministry is ever-changing, our small churches offer steady and supportive care to their communities in creative and joy-filled ways. Small churches have superpowers! With bold hearts and spirits, small churches flex and adjust nimbly, raise and develop leaders specific to their settings, and innovate with intention and purpose.
In this month’s issue, we’re highlighting some of that creative energy in our Ministry Spotlight on Vocational Deacon, Wayne Hanway; sharing a resource for you from our friends at the Small Churches Big Impact Collective; and celebrating new educational paths forged by seminaries across the country (featuring Seminary of the Southwest and Iona!) in the following article from The Christian Century.
Please forward this newsletter widely and send us your own stories about the power of small.
Read more here: Small Church Voices, New Year 2024 Edition
