by Gilberto Collazo | Dec 4, 2020 | Ask the Advisors, COVID-19, Featured
This week, Ask the Advisors welcomes guest blogger Gilberto Collazo, Vice President of Disciples Church Extension Fund (DCEF) and Lead for Hope Partnership Services. In 1964, I lived through the 9.2 magnitude earthquake in Alaska. I was only five years old at the...
by Rosario Ibarra | Nov 20, 2020 | Ask the Advisors, COVID-19, Featured
Is it possible to thrive during this uncertain time of the coronavirus? It depends. Businesses such as delivery services, online classes, grocery stores and cleaning services are thriving because they are meeting the needs of people at this time. Can congregations do...
by DCEF | Nov 19, 2020 | COVID-19, Featured, News
A goal of Disciples Church Extension Fund (DCEF) is to keep the congregations we serve aware of the financial relief options available to them. During the coronavirus pandemic, one such resource is the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) of which the application...
by DCEF | Nov 10, 2020 | Ask the Advisors, COVID-19, Featured
This week, Ask the Advisors welcomes guest blogger Terrell L McTyer, Minister of New Church Strategies at New Church Ministry. Question: Does God still expect us to fulfill the Great Commission during the pandemic? From the day of Pentecost to the dread of the...
by Jim Michel | Oct 27, 2020 | Ask the Advisors, COVID-19, Featured
Wow!!! I looked out my office window earlier this week and, to my surprise (and that of my local meteorologist), the ground was covered with snow. “How could this happen?” I asked no one in particular, to which my fourteen-year-old son began to explain moisture,...
by Nadine Compton | Oct 15, 2020 | COVID-19, Featured, Stories
First Christian Church (FCC) in Portland, Oregon moves seven tons of food through its building every week. Yes, you read that right… seven tons, every week. In an effort to address the city’s food insecurity issues, which have only become compounded with the COVID-19...
