Being the Church During a Pandemic

Resources Posted for Being Church Online

The Conference is posting resources to help churches with streaming worship and other gatherings and with online giving. This includes information on platforms for streaming, music licensing, and how-to guides for Zoom and for creating good video. Content that can be used by churches in online worship is also being gathered here. This page is being continually updated.

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Conference staff hosted an online conversation on March 17 about online worship. View the recording here.

Online Devotion

The Three Bridge Conference Ministers share a message and reflection on Colossians 2:5, speaking about the new ways we are learning to be church. Watch here and feel free to use this devotion as part of your church's online offerings.

Learning to Be The Church Virtually

Associate Conference Minister Tiffany Vail writes: The first thing we have learned is that you CAN do this. We witnessed that on Sunday. Hundreds of our churches were online, ministering to their flocks. From here, it will only get better. As we learn and help one another and figure this thing out, it will get better.

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That Hard Place

Bridge Conference Minister Don Remick writes: This is where churches can be at their best. You are a source of practical and spiritual grounding and support for your community; both within and beyond your church. And you, oh Church of Jesus Christ, oh people of the Body of Christ, throughout history and in disasters past you have risen because your follow the Risen One.

So let’s get moving.

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Self-Care for Clergy: Prevent Burnout

Debbie Ringen, Transitional Minister of Health and Wellness, writes: Clergy and healthcare providers are on the front-line helping people manage stress and anxiety ... Self-care must be practiced as prevention, physically, emotionally and spiritually, to prevent burnout.

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