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This post was written by Cera Talamantes, a member of the INCM Blog team. The banner was hung, the flyers had been passed out, and I walked around the room making sure every activity, gift bag, and sign was perfectly in its place. Everything sparkled and excitement filled the space as we awaited our coming […]
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This post was written by Melissa Hendrickson, a member of the INCM Blog team. For so many of us, we could tell the story of Easter in our sleep. We prep lessons with construction paper crosses or popsicle sticks, and we retell it to our kids on Easter Sunday with excitement and lilted voices. But,
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The ache and brokenness of the world around us is not a new phenomenon, yet most of us are expressing that it has not felt so poignant in our lifetime as it has in the past few years. The events of the past week are no different in adding to the evidence that the darkness
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This post was written by Mercedes Hayes, a member of the INCM Blog team. One of the beauties of ministry to children is the tapestry it creates from the loving people around them – grandparents, parents, foster parents, aunts, uncles, children, friends, and volunteers. From the beginning of creation, it has been God’s design for
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This post was written by Marta Cortez, a member of the INCM Blog team. Many of us went into ministry with the idea that a job serving Jesus on a church staff would be the ultimate utopia. We dreamed of ministering with people we could call “best friends” and ministering to people who were fully
3 Things You Need to Stay in Ministry Even When It’s Hard Read More »
This post was written by Jeremy O’Neill, a member of the INCM Blog team. Last month I had the opportunity to teach a breakout at CPC called Stepping Into A Turnaround Situation. When we got to the topic of getting buy-in, I could tell that it resonated with the leaders in the room. I believe
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This blog was written by Crystal Mazzuca as part of the CPC22 Undivided Series. Our hope through these reflections by ministry leaders is that they would prepare your hearts to hear from God while you’re at CPC in person or CPC+ online. It’s hard to imagine the conference center at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort as dark, quiet, and empty
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This blog was written by Cera Talamantes as part of the CPC22 Undivided Series. Our hope through these reflections by ministry leaders is that they would prepare your hearts to hear from God while you’re at CPC in person or CPC+ online. I was in the confetti-filled conference room with happy and sad tears streaming
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This blog was written by Melissa Hendrickson as part of the CPC22 Undivided Series. Our hope through these reflections by ministry leaders is that they would prepare your hearts to hear from God while you’re at CPC in person or CPC+ online. You can listen to the whole CPC22 playlist here on Spotify. Read these opening lyrics of the song
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The cold, snowy Chicago wind was blowing so hard it almost knocked me into my friend as we got off the church shuttle. A small group of youth and a few of our youth leaders were spending time leading up to Christmas at Pacific Garden Mission at the women’s and children’s refuge. We were given jobs
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