Small-Group Assimilation Strategies: “Small groups certainly have a lot of potential for helping church visitors and new members become fully integrated into the congregation.”

THERE are times when being a newspaper columnist is like being in the Tardis in Doctor Who. The Time Lords who created the Tardis only occasionally dip a toe into the muddy waters of real life.

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Churches free up land to fight housing crisis: “CHURCHES are planning to make city properties and land available for inexpensive housing to fight Victoria’s home-affordability crisis.”

50 killed as mob burns church: “AT least 50 people, including women and children, have burned to death in Kenya when a mob set fire to the church they were hiding in to escape ethnic violence.”

Shorter Workweek Meant to Bolster Pastors’ Home, Spiritual Health
At least one conference in the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s North American region has concluded that frazzled pastors don’t make for successful ministry. That conference, spanning the U.S. states of Iowa and Missouri, is encouraging pastors to trim their sometimes 80-hour workweeks to a saner 45 to 55 hours.