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Bi-Vocational Pastors & Small Church Network to focus on church revitalization July 12
Church Revitalization for Small-Membership Churches will be the focus of the EPA Bi-Vocational Pastors and Small Church Network’s next meeting on Tuesday, July 12. The group’s usually hourlong meeting will expand to two hours—6:30 to 8:30 PM—for attendees to hear valuable insights from two expert presenters via Zoom.
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Kenneth Priddy, Executive Director of the Go Center, will share empirical and encouraging wisdom about the lifecycle of local churches in the first hour at 6:30 PM. Dr. Priddy offers a free online “Church Lifecycle Assessment” (https://gocenterinfo.wordpress.com/). He spends most of his time with small churches but works with congregations of all sizes to help them explore possibilities for a vital, productive future.
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The Rev. Steve Morton, EPA’s new Leadership Development Manager, will join and lead the informative conversation at 7:30 PM. Morton, formerly a pastor and Superintendent of EPA’s North District, is now tasked with resourcing, training and helping local churches to enlist and develop transformative, disciple-making leaders as part of EPA’s new Pathways to Congregational Fruitfulness & Health initiative (https://www.epaumc.org/pathways/).
All clergy and laity are invited to join the supportive network and attend its meetings every other month. Presentations and discussions focus especially on concerns, experiences and learnings of bi-vocational pastors and small-membership church leaders. For more information contact the Rev. Denny Emrick at denny@emrick.info or the Rev. Derrick Gutierrez at derrick.gutierrez@gmail.com.