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Needs and talents assessment.
Education in the parish.
Parish fellowship and outreach.
Addressing special needs, and problems in the parish.
Groups, organizations and programs that contribute to parish life.
Parish growth.
Volume I - 1984
A Lay Worker’s Experiences
IntroductionSince graduating from St. Vladimir’s Seminary in 1974. I have served the Orthodox Church, on a parish level, as a full-time choir director, and youth coordinator. While…
Volume I - 1984
Communication Piece About Your Parish
What do people in your local community know about your parish? Are you communicating what you really want them to know? One of the most important ways visitors form impressions…
Volume I - 1984
Is God happy when He sends people out into a field ripe for the harvest and they come back empty-handed?
Did you ever wonder why many visitors who come to your parish once, do not come back? It might surprise us to…
Volume I - 1984
20 Ways to Encourage Parish Growth
Encourage active parishioners through sermons, prayers, and bulletins to witness to their faith by their lives and to talk about the Church with others. Send bulk mailings to ail…Volume II - 1983
St Michael’s Library was “born” in the fall of 1978, when our parish voted to purchase once a month a book written by Orthodox authors for Orthodox people. Intensely interested in the operations of small libraries,…
Volume I - 1983
A Layman’s View Of The Orthodox Parish
People gather for various reasons. Sometimes it is purely for friendship. Often it is to support an idea, a position, or a particular person. Other times, people who might…
Volume I - 1983
When the Church was very young, when the death and resurrection and ascension of Jesus was fresh in the memory of His friends, and when the classical world was at the zenith of its power and influence, how was it…
Volume I - 1983
“Liturgy” by definition implies action, and children more than most are soon bored when placed in the role of mere spectators. Now that most of our dioceses and parishes are encouraging the attendance of children at…
Volume I - 1983
The Orthodox Church is rooted in the family. Every woman takes the Holy Theotokos as a model for herself, so that in some little way she may be in the home what the blessed Mother of God is to the Church.
Today,…
Volume I - 1982
Perhaps every Orthodox priest assigned to a mission has at one time or other dreamed of a book titled “The Establishment and Care of Mission Parishes in Ten Easy Steps.” Yet we know such a manual is wild fantasy.…