church money

What Does A Ministry Budget Look Like?

About three years into my first ministry job, during our annual stewardship weekend, our pastor announced that there would be a meeting after Mass...

How To Start Your Ministry From Zero

Maybe last year did not end as you wanted it to, or with the recent rise in COVID cases, you know that you are going into the new year needing…

Does Your Parish Know How To Grow Young?

Recently, I’ve taken over the formation for all age groups at our parish. The role has been an adjustment because of the expanded workload, but now...

anxiety

How Is Your Church Approaching Mental Health?

Our youth ministry recently held a Q&A session with our pastor. The purpose of the event was to increase interactions between youth and leadership in...

Why Are We Afraid Of Risk?

A few weeks ago, we took many middle school students to a ropes course for some team building and fellowship. One of the most entertaining parts of...

Where have all the Church workers gone?

Our parish has a few job vacancies. We were hoping to fill them right away, but it’s taking a while. The big problem is that no one is even applying….

Why It Takes Time To Build A Healthy Ministry

I wanted to get there sooner. After three years of youth ministry at my current parish, I considered moving on to something else. I was not seeing...

Showing Your Team The Love They Deserve

Our youth ministry team started to huddle after the youth program last week. I was unsure how they would feel sticking around for another 45 minutes,...

Creating A Healthy Family Dynamic In The Parish

I love seeing young families at Mass. I’m not sure if that’s a sign of getting older, but watching little kids crawl all over the pews, make their...