{"id":12329,"date":"2023-08-30T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=12329"},"modified":"2023-08-29T11:24:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T18:24:40","slug":"roundup-practical-help-for-you-and-your-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=12329","title":{"rendered":"Roundup: Practical Help for You and Your Church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sources: Various<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>7 Principles for Responding to Crises<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emails and church hallway conversations may raise urgent questions: \u201cPeople are suffering! What will our churc\u00e5\u00e7h do? How can we help?\u201d Catalyst Services shares principles to help your church decide when and how to wisely respond to crises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/catalystservices.org\/one-crisis-after-another\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>7 Practical Ways Churches Can Care for Missionaries<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Want to do a better job at caring for those you support and send out? A winsome Canadian church mission leader shared some solid ideas on the Global Missions Podcast. But they may require leaving margin in your mission budget\u2014funds not allocated to monthly support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalmissionspodcast.com\/212-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Listen to the podcast<\/a> (it first aired in 2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>9 Ways to Share Wins Overseas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCelebrating out loud is a way of putting skin on how God responds to us, in his own bounding, bursting-at-the-buttons joy. And the Bible\u2019s clear that sharing the wins in community ratchets our joy up a notch.\u201d Go.Serve.Love suggests a variety of ways to celebrate the good stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goservelove.net\/sharing-wins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prevent Burnout by Enjoying God in 4 Simple Ways<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an article for Missio Nexus, Carolyn from Soul Shepherding offers four little but surprisingly powerful ways to renew your intimacy with God (and includes other helpful insights and links).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"1\">\n<li>Share your real emotions and struggles with someone you trust to give you empathy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Get outside to run, hike, walk, or sit and breathe in the beauty.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Make a healthy meal and savor it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sleep or lay in bed for eight hours.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/missionexus.org\/prevent-burnout-by-enjoying-god-in-4-simple-ways\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-04317a8e-b6f3-44d4-83a5-390a7e83b87f\">Events: Coming up in September<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sources: Various 7 Principles for Responding to Crises Emails and church hallway conversations may raise urgent questions: \u201cPeople are suffering! What will our churc\u00e5\u00e7h do? How can we help?\u201d Catalyst Services shares principles to help your church decide when and how to wisely respond to crises. Read the article. 7 Practical Ways Churches Can Care &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=12329\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roundup: Practical Help for You and Your Church<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resource-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12330,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12329\/revisions\/12330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}