Many churches in America have internet sites that are used to educate people who are searching for a new church as well as inform church attenders what’s going on. I’ve notice lately that many church websites also have a “Donate” button on their website. While I’m sure this could be a good thing for a [...]
I’ve attended many churches that don’t meet in church buildings. As a matter of fact with very few exceptions, I haven’t been in a traditional church building since I moved back home from Georgia 6 years ago. I’m a regular attender and rarely miss a service. I’ve been to church in a movie theater, high rise [...]
The Pope recently asked priests to “discover new possibilities for carrying out their ministry to and for the Word of God.” With the advent of new social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook there is a whole new prospect for spreading the gospel. After so many centuries of people primarily having to sit in [...]
A recent poll in England shows that almost 97% of regular church attenders look forward to hearing the sermon. Unfortunately only 17% said that the sermons cause them to change their attitudes or change their perspective on issues. While it’s nice to know that the people filling our church chairs are cominng with expectant hearts it’s [...]
I shared in two of my earlier posts about the implications on a personal level of buying imported church chairs and other products. Those included the cost from having to replace products before there time and the hazards of living with defective products. In this post I want to to discuss the effect buying imports [...]
In part 1 I talked about why imported church chairs are less expensive up front and why it’ll cost you more in the end. In this post I want to go over the sometimes unseen implications of buying cheaper imports. There have been many stories in the news about recalled products from foreign countries. Everything from [...]
There are few instances where I would purposely choose an imported product over a domestically made product. Cars might be the only instance. And with this instance I’m usually going to pay more for the privilege than I would if I bought a USA made car. In almost all other cases imported products are less [...]
According to import statistics approximately 25% of all church chairs sold in the United States are imported. While manufacturing costs may be significantly less in foreign countries, shipping costs increase the consumers price of the chair. This fact combined with the long term costs of repairs and having to replace the chairs sooner due to [...]
For those of us who are active in our church’s finances (usually the board members and bookkeeper) it’s no surprise that studies show that the economic recovery tauted about in the news hasn’t happened in local churches yet. While tough economic times can bring more people into our church chairs, (many people seek for answers [...]
Finding volunteers for a church’s children’s ministry can be a daunting task. It would seem that the larger the church the more volunteers would be available and willing to work. That usually isn’t how it works though. There are some ways to help make the idea of working with the children more inviting and hopefully lure [...]
