by Nadine Compton | Oct 20, 2023 | Featured, News, Stories
In 2014, First Christian Church (FCC) of Odessa, Texas, was not in a good place – figuratively or literally. Membership was down. The building had significant accessibility issues, including a shortage of parking the lack of a clear front entrance, a second story with...
by Nadine Compton | Mar 9, 2023 | Featured, News, Stories
With a population of 168,000, Fort Collins, CO, is by no means a metropolis, yet it struggles with issues that many densely populated areas of the United States and Canada currently face: finding affordable housing and childcare. But by leveraging strong partnerships...
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...
