by Tracee Swank | Sep 15, 2026 | church, entrepreneur, growth
For more than 45 years, Church4Today has stood alongside congregations working to find their way back to mission. That kind of longevity is worth celebrating. It also comes with a quiet, honest reality: The donors who built this ministry over the decades will not be...
by Tracee Swank | Sep 8, 2026 | church, entrepreneur, growth
Many church leaders are working from an outdated picture of their own neighborhood. The families who lived there when the sanctuary was built are not always the families living there now, and few congregations have taken the time to find out who their neighbors have...
by Tracee Swank | Aug 13, 2026 | change, church, church health, growth
“If we change that, we won’t be the same church.” Someone on your leadership team has said it. Maybe it was you, staring at a giving report or an empty row that used to be full. It sounds like conviction. Most of the time, it’s...
by Susan Hayward | Jul 30, 2026 | church, church health, spiritual gifts
Do you belong to a church that is struggling to find enough volunteers to complete ministry tasks? Is it always the same small group of individuals who “volunteer” repeatedly, finding themselves eventually “burning out”? Are you constantly filling “round holes with...
by Susan Hayward | Jul 23, 2026 | church, mission, spiritual gifts
You may have taken a spiritual gifts class along with a spiritual gifts survey in the past to discover your unique spiritual gifts. All too often, when the class ended, so did your involvement with your spiritual gifts. I invite you to create a spiritual gifts...
by Susan Hayward | Jul 9, 2026 | church, Kingdom, spiritual gifts
I felt a stirring from deep within me as I listened to the report from Church Doctor Ministries. That stirring grew into a strong tug over the next several days. Each time I reread the “Spiritual Health/Connected by Serving” section of the report, I grew more...
