by Nadine Compton | Dec 10, 2021 | Featured, News, Stories
Many churches struggle with adopting new technology. Sometimes it’s due to a lack of employees or volunteers and other times, it’s due to hesitancy from elderly congregants who aren’t yet comfortable with technology that they’re unfamiliar with. That wasn’t the case...
by Nadine Compton | Sep 30, 2021 | Featured, Stories
Pastor Derrick Elliott is a busy man. In addition to being an Air Force chaplain and doctoral candidate, he is the pastor of Desert Heritage Church (DHC), which is an open and affirming congregation of both the United Church of Christ and the Christian Church...
by Nadine Compton | Sep 30, 2021 | Featured, Stories
You may think that a place of worship which is nearly a century and half old might be set in its ways. Not Washington Avenue Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), established in 1881. Right before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, this faith community in Elyria, Ohio, had...
by DCEF | May 19, 2021 | Featured, Stories
COVID Hobbles Congregating, not Creativity How has Light of the World Christian Church in Indianapolis weathered a pandemic in the midst of an interim ministry? Surprisingly well, according to Pastor R. Janae Pitts-Murdock. She credits strong relationships within and...
by DCEF | May 19, 2021 | Featured, Stories
New Kitchen Caters to Fellowship, Funds Ministry Everything starts here: Ministry. Fundraising. Fellowship. And, of course, lunch. The heart of La Iglesia Cristiana La Trinidad in Corpus Christi, Texas, is la cocina — the kitchen. So, a loan from Disciples Church...
by DCEF | May 19, 2021 | Featured, Stories
When a retired school administrator went from serving as financial officer at her church to chair of the board, the “fit” was obvious. The church’s biggest mission: a preschool teeming with children. Relatively new to Disciples of Christ, Sharon inherited her post on...
