Parish Paper
The Parish Paper is a monthly electronic newsletter that offers ideas and insights for active congregations. Edited by Herb Miller, Lyle Schaller and Cynthia Woolever, this journal is available to all Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area church members and clergy to use within their ministry. You are invited to include items from The Parish Paper in your newsletters and on your website or webpage. You may also reprint items and send to others through email or the U.S. mail.
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Please feel free to distribute the attached announcement as widely as possible—to your congregations, constituents, and colleagues—including people outside as well as inside your congregation, judicatory, denomination, seminary, or educational institution.
Note: If you mail photocopies of the Paper in its entirety with your newsletter or other mailings using your U.S. Post Office Nonprofit Mailing Permit, most local Post Offices require that every item carry your organization’s name and address. Above The Parish Paper masthead, type your congregation’s name, address, and “Photocopied by Permission.”
- October 2010: Why Are Worship Visitors Important?
- September 2010: Planning for the Unexpected Financial Crisis
- August 2010: How Much Should We Pay Our Pastor?
- July 2010: Should Our Congregation Use Internet Social Media?
- June 2010: Why Does Mentoring Suceed and Fail?
- May 2010: Generous Givers
- April 2010: What Can We Learn From the Emerging Church Movement?
- March 2010: New Trends in Belonging
- February 2010: Should We Fine-Tune Our Church’s Internal Culture?
- January 2010: Become Comfortable with Conflict: Step One to Moving Beyond It!
- December 2009: Are We A Leader-Sending Congregation?
- November 2009: Seven Roads to A Multicultural Congregation
- October 2009: Women Pastors: Are Our Assumptions Accurate
- September 2009: Do We Sing All Five Worship Hymn Preferences?
- August 2009: Shepherding Congregations Through Grief Storms
- July 2009: Lay Testimonials Stregthen Financial Giving?
- June 2009: One Congregation: Many Locations
- May 2009: Permanent Endowment Fund: Blessing and Temptation
- April 2009: What Do People Want in Their Pastors?
- March 2009: Going into All the World: Church Website Basics
- February 2009: Should our Congregation Offer More Choices?
- January 2009: How To Indentify Our Church’s Unstated Assumptions
- December 2008: Does Your Window Limit Your View?
- November 2008: The Fun Factor Asset in Congregational Life
- October 2008: Requirements for Membership: Which Ones Matter?
- September 2008: The Change Agent’s Checklist
- August 2008- “How Does Church Size Impact Decsion-Making?”
- July 2008- Giving to Congregations: Have Patterns Changed?
- June 2008- “Teaching Moments: Stregthening Governing Board Meetings”
- May 2008: “How Effective is Our Financial Communication?”
