A Church for Starving Artists: For Starters, We're All Ministers
One article, however, in the most recent Outlook offered provocative insight:
Pool of Available Ministers Mismatched to Churches' Needs
We'll overlook the fact that if congregations looked at their own membership, they'd find perfectly matched ministers right there in their midst sipping coffee and chatting together in the [...]

A pastor should know less Latin (greek?) and more horse (twitter?) « Matt Brough
Robertson’s point was if you want to “reach the people” you need to get to where they are (on your horse!). Where are people today? More and more are moving into online social networks (Oprah’s on twitter now, so the floodgates are [...]

Provocative Church: Reasons (why people don't go to church)
A video from CentralChristianChurch.com posted by Bill Reichart at ProvocativeChurch.com.
(tags: video seekers)

Church launches web TV
The Presbyterian Church in Canada's communications office has launched a new online news service.
The first episode of PCConnect-TV, running about seven minutes long, was uploaded to YouTube last week.
The show features video recorded at Central Presbyterian Church in Cambridge.
(tags: media pcconnect)

Unearthed mystery plaque from 1850s could shed light on Johnstown history – Brockville Recorder and Times – Ontario
A mystery monument unearthed on a Frederick Street property Saturday has two local women and history buffs asking questions.
Above all, how did a stone monument erected for the Presbyterian Church in 1850 find its way to a neglected [...]

Growing Together at Geddie – One Plants, another waters. . . .
“Hands up if church camping has been a significant part of your life.” That request was made at a gathering of most of the clerks of our church’s presbyteries and synods, who gather every two years, usually in Mississauga, to discuss matters of concern [...]

Anglican Journal: The long road from Guantánamo to Montreal
“People say to me ‘Can you really guarantee that he wasn’t a terrorist?' Well, there’s no guarantees in any thing, but on the other hand I keep telling people ‘We’ve done our homework. It’s not something that is just a nice thing to do,” said Bishop Clarke, [...]

Don Tapscott – Grown Up Digital – Full Interview by Allan Gregg | TVO.ORG
They are the first generation to have literally grown up in the digital age. Today's young people can't imagine life without the internet and their cell phones. But they use the technology in a very different way from their parents. In a [...]

5 Rules For Snagging Consumer 2.0 (MediaPost Publications)
Replace "consumer" with "parishioner" and this becomes extremely relevant…
"'Know your consumer' is a business commandment certain to be deeply ingrained at the heart of any successful company. Never, however, has that consumer morphed so quickly or become so elusive. It is important for marketers to grasp and understand [...]

It’s been pretty hectic around the Communications Office this week. With April bringing the official launch of the new & improved PCConnect family of communications channels, there was much running around and pulling of hair!
Finally, today, I am so pleased to announce that the very first episode of PCConnect-TV is live on the [...]