Before you consign this article to yet another heretical “everybody gets saved in the end, no matter who or what they believe in” blog—be assured nothing could be further from my intention. Because I take very seriously the truth that if people do not have a saving relationship with Jesus Christ (and only Jesus Christ, […]
Author Archives: Yvon Prehn
In our area, one church frequently does a compassionate outreach at a Laundromat in an area of town where many homeless people do their laundry. My husband, who is a bi-vocational pastor and who does handyman work to support our ministry habits, was on a job recently with a homeless young man. When he overheard […]
No matter what tools we use to create our message; no matter what channels we use to share it, the one thing that never changes is our core content. Our content, permeated with the truth of the entire Bible and culminating with a call to salvation and discipleship in Jesus, must be the anchor of […]
I like to read secular office management and communication advice on the web for tips and ideas that can apply to church communications and a very helpful one read recently was: 8 Surefire Ways to Demotivate Your Employees. There are plenty of applications we can all draw from the article and at first, I was […]
I can be loud–really loud. Not obnoxious loud, not loud when I speak normally, just loud in volume when necessary. I often joke that it’s because I’m the daughter of a drill sergeant, but regardless of the reason, if a group of people at church want an auditorium of milling adults and kids to be […]
You know the group, the newly graduated from high school, the ones you are glad to see off to college. You might be happy you don’t need to deal with their questions, challenges, and whining anymore, but somebody has to. Fortunately USAToday (8-21-2012, by Mary Beth Marklein) just published an article, “What makes cyber-weaned college […]
