April 9, 2020
Town Hall Meeting Addresses Self Care, Financial Support, and Remaining Faithful
If you weren't able to join us for Monday's Town Hall, you can watch the video here! Nearly 300 participants joined John Upton and our panel as they answered questions you'd asked in advance and presented timely, relevant information to assist churches and individuals in your response to the coronavirus pandemic. In the video, you can learn more about:

  • Self care from Tammy George, Licensed Professional Counselor
  • The CARES Act and its implications for churches from David Washburn, BGAV Treasurer
  • Updates from BGAV Disaster Response, Crisis Care Chaplaincy, and COVID-19 grants from Dean Miller, BGAV Mission Development Staff Coordinator
  • Developing pastoral support groups/helps for using Zoom to connect from John Chandler, Leader, Uptick
  • Ideas for how your church can continue to conduct business meetings while not meeting in person from David Washburn

Be on the lookout for additional Town Hall meetings and webinars in the near future to address specific topics related to being the Church during this challenging time of crisis.

Crisis Care: Dealing with Loss and Grief
by Kristen Curtis

It strikes me as such an odd thing that our current circumstances include “social distancing” as an expression of care and concern for the most vulnerable among us. It is so counter to the ways we ordinarily care for the hurting and the lonely. In an attempt to care for people in the most effective ways possible during this time, we are attempting to share some wisdom from our Crisis Care Team training and adapt it to this new need to care for people while practicing social distancing.

"The Great Pruning: Remissioning the Church in Disruptive Times" Webinar hosted by V3
TODAY, April 9 - 2:00 p.m. EDT

Pruning branches on a living plant helps it to be more productive, grow better fruit, and sustain the plant for the long haul. 

As churches have become dispersed because of COVID-19 it has revealed the fruit of our labor when times felt much less complicated. The lessons we are learning in order to be church today can help us to get rid of overgrown programs, unproductive gatherings, and aimless neighboring.

What lessons are we learning about what it means to shepherd, pioneer, teach, call into relationship and share the good news need to go with us into our post-coronavirus church?

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