How technology helps foster community
When four-year-old The Community Fellowship Church in Collinsville, VA, began looking to implement a church management system for its growing congregation
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San Diego church uses new platform to increase giving
Mobile giving technology at The Rock Church enables givers to donate any amount from their phones.
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Church invites everyone to get some fresh air
Saddleback includes an outdoor training course open to the public as part of its ‘Daniel Plan’ health initiative.
Read More >Flipping the process: When the ‘child’ chooses the parent in church adoption
Adoptions between churches are becoming more common. No, not the kind of adoptions that cry in the night and wet their pants.
Where mergers of two separate churches are familiar, adoptions can be somewhat different. (Two mergers were reported on in the February issue of Church Executive.) As for adoptions, one church leader says: “Traditionally the process is started and directed by the adopting family based upon their criteria and desire to adopt. After considering all of the possibilities, the family finally chooses.” But the process for Central Christian Church in the east valley of Phoenix, and CrossPoint Church of northwest Glendale, AZ – 42 miles apart – proved counter-intuitive, says Jeff Small, executive pastor of Exalt Ministries at Central Christian, where 10,000 people worship each weekend at now four locations.
