Do you want to 'Free Range' your ministry?
Help me decide which workshops to offer
Free Range Priest is in its 10th year!
On January 1, 2016, I decided to figure out what it meant to be in ministry full-time, but not in traditional congregational ministry full-time.
Almost a decade later, I’ve figured out some things:
We live in an era where digital revolution and institutional collapse are creating a whole new kind of mission field.
It’s necessary to shift our thinking - and our work - as ministers to navigate new paths to serving God and the church.
The world’s hunger for meaning, connection, love and peace - for following Jesus - has never been stronger in my lifetime.
It’s the best time to be in ministry - IF you’re ready for an adventure!
I’m spending more time sharing what I’ve learned with ministers of all kinds, and I’m trying to figure out how best to do this: how to share what is most valuable to others in the most efficient and effective way.
I’ve decided to host a series of online workshops starting in August, and I need your help with the line up!
It would mean a lot to me if you would take a quick online survey*:
Or just look over the titles I’m considering below and leave a comment on this article.
Paid subscribers to Free Range Priest will get 10% off of all workshops, and anyone who takes 3 workshops will get a 4th for free. (also, if you take the ‘Free Range’ workshop, you’ll learn how to feel good about charging money for your experience and wisdom!)
Here’s the topics I’m thinking of:
How to 'Free Range' in your ministry: building what you're called to.
A workshop about overall Free Range Priest concepts.Discover your ministry identity outside the box of traditional roles and expectations.
See how today’s ministry is more like a business—in the best way.
Find structure, flexibility, and financial clarity while serving God and the church.
How to serve ‘Sustainable Part-Time Ministry’: do less, love more.
A workshop about clergy/congregations serving together more effectively.Learn a task-based model instead of ‘full-time lite’.
Empower lay ministers by not being ‘in charge’.
Love God more, love your neighbor more, love ministry more.
How today’s digital tools are crucial for church community.
A workshop about embracing today's technology for better ministry.How to LOVE marketing (aka ‘evangelism’).
Use church management software to deepen faith and connection.
Build a vibrant in-person and online community.
Ditch your website! Stop posting on social media! And what to do instead….
How to use church management software for deeper ministry in small churches .
A workshop about new ways of thinking about membership.Why it’s crucially important to have a database - to help foster spiritual growth.
How to have a vibrant online ministry - alongside your in-person community.
Church chat for the ‘tech-suspicious’.
How to imagine ministry beyond the mid-20th century model.
A workshop about systematic changes and the institutional church model.The challenges and opportunities of the declining institutional church.
Embracing a post-denominational world.
Shifting from meeting-centric to practice-centric community (the ‘gym for your soul’ approach).
Cultivating ministry beyond Sunday morning.
Practical Preaching in the Digital Age
A workshop about more engaging, Gospel-based sermons.Stop using a manuscript! (and feel confident about it).
Conversational sermons focused on Good News.
Learn the ‘Preaching Triangle’ outline and delivery method.
I would love your feedback! You can comment on this article, or you can take a brief survey by clicking the button below.*
*(the survey will ask you to enter your name and email again when you take the survey. This is for my own registration database and no data is shared with anyone else).