Change Management: Intentional Interim Ministers and Congregations By Rev. Malcolm Himschoot Rev. Malcolm Himschoot who serves the United Church of Christ as the Minister for Ministerial Transitions with the Ministerial Excellence, Support, and Authorization (MESA)...
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IMN Virtual Cafes are taking registrations for October 2 and December 4. Click here for more info and reserve your spot today!
Join the IMN VSG Community
IMN is now soliciting members to join the next offering of Virtual Support Groups. If you are interested, Click on IMN Virtual Support Group Registration Form September 2019-February 2020. While we will continue to accept members to the groups, once a groups has...
January 31
January 31 (with inclusive language) God called forth a people and we responded to God's call, 'Rebuild this ancient ruin, restore My city walls.' As we built, brick by brick we discovered the cornerstone and as we let God mould and fashion us, God built us up in...
Inappropriate Behavior, No Long Acceptable – By Alan Mead
Inappropriate Behavior, No Long Acceptable By Alan Mead It would be almost impossible to read any news source over the past few days and not be aware of people, formerly silent, speaking up, revealing incidents of past abuse or misconduct. In many cases, at least...
Preparing for and Recovering from Un-natural Disasters
Preparing for and Recovering from Un-Natural Disasters by The Rev. Martin Homan With the unnatural disasters occurring in New York City and now in a church in Texas do we as pastors and churches need to prepare for such occurrences even at our own doors? Westminster...
Learning New Skills
Our grandson is five. He is beginning to want to help, with things like baking pumpkin muffins, which I think he experienced in kindergarten over Halloween. Anyway, he came into the kitchen and saw all the ingredients being assembled on the counter. “Can I help?” he...
Don’t Just Talk About Mission-Act With Passion! By Susan Beaumont
Don’t Just Talk About Mission-Act With Passion! By Susan Beaumount Congregations waste precious time forming mission statements that fail to inspire action. Writing a mission statement produces clarity, but rarely generates energy. It’s time to move beyond mission and...
All Saints – By Rev. Alan Mead
For Christians today is All Saints’ Day. It is a day that we pause to remember and give thanks for those who are no longer here. Of course we remember those who have had strong faith and who have accomplished remarkable achievements; but increasingly I find myself...
Sad News – By Rev. Alan Mead
It is with great sadness that we have learned of the sudden death of our dear friend and colleague the Rev. Gary Goldacker yesterday afternoon (Oct 24, 2016). Gary was a long time member of the IMN Faculty, and served Episcopal congregations in Detroit, Ann Arbor,...