The Essential Practices Toolkit for Hospitality introduces hospitality as a Sabbath practice and explains why it matters. It also looks at hospitality in scripture, offers ways to participate and includes a resource list.
The Essential Practices Toolkit for Prayer introduces prayer as a Sabbath practice and explains why it matters. It also looks at prayer in scripture, offers ways to participate and includes a resource list.
The Essential Practices Toolkit for Retreat introduces retreat as a Sabbath practice and explains why it matters. It also looks at retreat in scripture, offers ways to participate and includes a resource list.
The Essential Practices Toolkit for Service introduces service as a Sabbath practice and explains why it matters. It also looks at service in scripture, offers ways to participate and includes a resource list.
The Essential Practices Toolkit for Storytelling introduces storytelling as a Sabbath practice and explains why it matters. It also looks at storytelling in scripture, offers ways to participate and includes a resource list.
Introduction to the Faith Practices Toolkit from the Office of Christian Formation
Essential Practices for Sabbath introduces the doctrine of Sabbath and explains why it matters. It also looks at Sabbath in scripture and in action.
The 204th General Assembly (1992) adopted these Guidelines for its own life and provided them as a tool to congregations and other bodies of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to use in times of conflict and disagreement. The Guidelines offer clear, simple suggestions for dealing with differences, transforming them into opportunities for growth, grace and understanding. Though the use of these Guidelines cannot prevent conflict from happening, they will engender an open, helpful, constructive climate where differences can be spoken in love and heard with understanding.
2019 Comparative Summaries of Statistics
None of us has ever practiced ministry (or anything else) in a pandemic. And, none of us had much time to prepare for practicing ministry in a pandemic. Start with grace, positive spiritual practices, creative care/self-care and resource suggestions to help you find more.