Timing Emails for More Opens Detailed data helps you improve By Richard Hong Most of us communicate with our congregations using mass emails. If you are using MailChimp, Constant Contact, or Vertical Response, you can track your “open rate” to see how many people are reading your email. Crafting a gorgeous, information-filled message is… Read more »
October 4, 2018
The Church for Today
Timing Emails for More Opens Detailed data helps you improve By Richard Hong Most of us communicate with our congregations using mass emails. If you are using MailChimp, Constant Contact, or Vertical Response, you can track your “open rate” to see how many people are reading your email. Crafting a gorgeous, information-filled message is… Read more »
Being ‘Christ’ to one another Reflections on Ephesians 4:25 – 5:2 By Antonio ‘Tony’ Aja This passage from Ephesians is very appropriate for the times we are living. Let me share some thoughts I picked up from an article written by John Pavlovitz, a well-known Christian activist pastor. Pavlovitz feels that the current political,… 
Getting to know you Your church is the people by Richard Hong “A church is the people, not the building.” Would anyone think of this as a controversial statement? Yet we need to explore fully what this means at a practical level in our churches. Sure, a common complaint is that there are some… 
Drawing with smoke Skywriting and other short-lived arts by Ken Rummer The line is thin and gray, and loopy in an old-fashioned, cursive way. I notice it, quite by chance, through the glass of the sliding door to the deck, and it draws me to the pane for a closer look. An elegant, gently… 
The Brave Warriors of the Little Rock Nine The struggle to end school segregation in 1957 and today by Rebecca Lister Armed guards in schools to protect children from violence…who would imagine it? It happened in 1957. Several months ago, I heard an interview on NPR’s “Fresh Air” that still stays with me. The interview… 
Summer Projects Use the summer to make improvements by Richard Hong We are almost at summer. Time to exhale, right? Relax – a little. But September is coming, and now is when we should start making the changes we want to have in place for the new program year. I don’t know where I… 
Consent: Everybody Wins Joining the conversations about sexual assault and violence by Abby King-Kaiser I am the parent of a four-year-old and a seven-year-old. We spend a lot of our time and emotional energy on language. Turns out, this is where, as 1 John 3 puts it, my faith becomes real, as I teach…