to Welcome, New Pastor, to Our Empty Church By feeds.christianitytoday.com Published On :: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 08:00:00 GMT Congregations and pastoral candidates are adapting the hiring process and getting to know each other online. Phillip Bethancourt’s kids aren’t convinced other children actually live in College Station, Texas. They moved from Nashville a few weeks ago for their dad’s new job as pastor of Central Church, but because of the coronavirus shutdowns, the four boys have yet to go school, make friends in the neighborhood, or meet the kids at their new church. Bethancourt too is living in his own strange parallel reality, preaching to a video camera in an empty auditorium and waiting for a congregation he hasn’t seen to officially vote him in. If all goes as planned on Sunday, he’ll become a lead pastor for the first time while his flock is still social distancing. “Nothing matches the opportunity to be with people in person,” said Bethancourt, who left his job as vice president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission to pursue the call at Central Church. “But I would say the process we’ve been using so far is the best substitute we can create.” Several other pastors and churches are in the same predicament, caught in the process of applying, interviewing, and onboarding during the coronavirus pandemic. “This is not the time to be without a pastor,” said William Vanderbloemen, who runs a consulting agency that helps Christian organizations with hiring. His phone has been “ringing off the hook” with churches wanting to get serious about their pastoral search. Many have decided to forge ahead with the process despite the unique challenges of social restrictions and shutdowns due to the pandemic. Several congregations, including high-profile megachurches Moody Church and Willow Creek Community Church, were in the midst of leadership transitions and have named ...Continue reading... Full Article
to Beyond Cedarville: Why Do Pastors Keep Getting Rehired After Abuse? By feeds.christianitytoday.com Published On :: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 10:00:00 GMT Victims’ advocates caution institutions against plans to “restore” fallen leaders. Update (May 1): Cedarville University president Thomas White has been placed on administration leave by the school’s board of trustees. A week after Anthony Moore was fired by White over “additional information related to [his] past,” the board announced it will commission an independent investigation of Moore and an audit of his hiring. --------- Another case of a leader with an abusive past moving from one evangelical institution to another has intensified scrutiny on Christian hiring practices and responses to abuse. In ministry contexts, the desire to keep fallen leaders out of positions where they might again abuse their authority is sometimes met with another perspective—a hope that a redemptive and forgiving God would allow people to be restored to leadership. Both victims’ advocates and community members worry that administrators weighing those considerations at Cedarville University made the wrong call. In 2017, Cedarville welcomed Anthony Moore six months after he was fired from the lead pastor position of The Village Church’s Fort Worth campus. President Thomas White wrote that he offered to shepherd Moore through a five-year plan of restoration at the conservative Baptist school while he taught theology, helped coach basketball, and served as a special advisor on diversity. CT spoke with four current and former Cedarville professors who said they knew Moore had made a “mistake” related to same-sex attraction and technology, based on White’s introduction and Moore’s own telling. Some assumed pornography or an online relationship. They had no idea that he had reportedly filmed a subordinate at his previous church in the shower. The revelation, detailed by multiple ...Continue reading... Full Article
to Died: Darrin Patrick, Who Used His Fall and Restoration to Help Struggling Pastors By feeds.christianitytoday.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 13:52:00 GMT (UPDATED) The St. Louis pastor spoke up about the difficulties faced by leaders and critiqued “celebrity culture” in ministry. Darrin Patrick, a megachurch pastor, author, and speaker, has died. Patrick was a teaching pastor at Seacoast Church, a multi-site megachurch based in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and the founding pastor of the Journey Church in St. Louis, where he lived. In a Friday evening update, Seacoast Church stated: “Darrin was target shooting with a friend at the time of his death. An official cause of death has not been released but it appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. No foul play is suspected.” Patrick’s unexpected death came as a shock to friends and colleagues. Robby Gallaty, pastor of Long Hollow Baptist, in Hendersonville, Tennessee, said that Patrick was scheduled to speak at his church next weekend. “I just talked to him Tuesday and Wednesday,” said Gallaty. “This is the second close friend I have lost in a year.” Gallaty first met Patrick in 2015 and had invited him to speak the following year at a men’s ministry event at Long Hollow. Just before the event, he said, Patrick called and said he was leaving the ministry. At the time, Patrick had been a rising star among Reformed evangelical circles and was serving as vice-president of the Acts 29 church planting network. He was fired from Journey for what church elders called misconduct including “inappropriate meetings, conversations, and phone calls with two women” and an abuse of power. Despite Patrick’s fall from ministry, the two stayed friends. Patrick admitted his faults and got counseling. He went through a restoration process that lasted 26 months, according to a 2019 blog interview posted at Christianity Today. He returned to the ministry as a preacher but not as a senior pastor of a church. ...Continue reading... Full Article
to Inflow in equity MF plunges 27% to Rs 81,600 cr in FY20 By Published On :: Thursday, May 07, 2020, 18:26 +0530 However, this was the sixth successive year of net inflows in equity mutual funds, according to data by the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI). Full Article
to HCL Tech Q4 net up 24.3% to Rs 3,154 cr, sees short-term impact of COVID-19 By Published On :: Thursday, May 07, 2020, 18:29 +0530 Shares of the company were trading at Rs 517.80, marginally lower than the previous close on BSE. Full Article
to Oppo to resume mobile production at 30% capacity By Published On :: Thursday, May 07, 2020, 18:31 +0530 The company has also started sales of mobile phones through Amazon, Flipkart and retail stores in permitted areas. Full Article
to Stocks in focus on May 08, 2020 By Published On :: Friday, May 08, 2020, 09:20 +0530 Here are the major stocks in focus on May 08, 2020 Full Article
to Sensex climbs over 500 points, Nifty tops 9,350 By Published On :: Friday, May 08, 2020, 09:38 +0530 Top gainers in the Sensex pack were IndusInd Bank, HUL, RIL, Axis Bank, Kotak Bank, ICICI Bank, Tata Steel, Bajaj Finance, TCS, Nestle, SBI, and Infosys, rising upto 4.33 percent. Full Article
to IndiGo Airlines to cut salary for senior employees from May By Published On :: Friday, May 08, 2020, 12:28 +0530 The company will also put in place a leave without pay program for the months of May, June and July Full Article
to CBI court extends Kapil Wadhawan, Dheeraj Wadhawan's custody in Yes Bank scam till May 10 By Published On :: Friday, May 08, 2020, 16:51 +0530 The businessmen-brothers are facing charges of financial irregularities in cases filed by both Enforcement Directorate (ED) and CBI. Full Article
to Nitin Gadkari asks traders to take loan in dollars, keep their balance sheets clean By Published On :: Friday, May 08, 2020, 22:03 +0530 The Union minister also offered them some remedies that are likely to earn money and will help them in increasing their business. Full Article
to Lava resumes operations at Noida factory with 600 employees By Published On :: Saturday, May 09, 2020, 11:43 +0530 Domestic mobile brand Lava on Saturday said it has resumed production at its manufacturing facility in Noida with over 20 per cent production capacity. Full Article
to Franklin Templeton issues apology to SEBI, says top executive's remark 'taken out of context' By Published On :: Saturday, May 09, 2020, 14:39 +0530 Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund on Friday said it is making every effort to ensure an orderly and equitable exit to all investors affected by closure of six debt schemes, a day after it was asked by regulator sebi to focus on returning investors' money at the earliest. Full Article
to Europe: a natural history / Tim Flannery (with Luigi Boitani) By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 07:37:59 EDT Browsery QH21.E85 F53 2019 Full Article
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