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 Ministers'
salaries are a difficult subject. If your congregation has one hundred
members there will be one hundred opinions about a fair salary for
the full time ministers. Rumors of what other churches are paying
abound. Both ends of the scale are discussed. Sometimes it seems
that preachers are paid only in "fried chicken and bushels of summer
squash." Other times rumors float around that the big churches are
paying hundreds of thousands of dollars and offering benefits that
would make most CEOs drool. The truth is that most churches are
somewhere in the middle...>>more>>
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Identify people you would like to see as leaders in the future, from
elementary school aged children to adults. Keep a list and pray for
them regularly by name....>>more>> |
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 Of
all the ministry that takes place in a hospital, perhaps the most
meaningful is sitting with an anxious family in the waiting room.
Families, in their time of crisis, need a spiritual anchor. You
can be that anchor...>>more>>
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. Funerals
are designed to give comfort to the family and to give them a
sense of closure. Traditions at funerals vary from culture to
culture. Have you ever noticed how much funeral traditions vary
from one region of the United States to another? A funeral in
Seattle will be different than a funeral in Dallas. Traditions
even vary from one community to the next. Behind it all is an
opportunity...>>more>>
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