Church Helps Webinar: ReEmerge – A Process Tool to Help You Reopen

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Hello Friends –

Thank you for watching today’s webinar with Rob Peters as he showed us a powerful free tool to help us as we reopen called ReEmerge. One of the key parts of his talk with us today was that we need to realize ten key realities about reopening our churches and to understand how they play out in our local context. Don’t forget that we are having a Town Hall Meeting tonight at 7 PM to talk about these reopening issues in greater detail. You can register for the town hall by clicking here.

The ten realities of reopening you need to consider Rob reminded us of today are:

1. People will gather in smaller worship settings and smaller small groups (50% full will be the new full and people will walk out of full rooms and worship centers).
2. The church will recover its essential ministry and non-essential ministry will have fewer participants and get less money.
3. The church has given people permission to stay home for worship services and worship attendance will go down another 15%, but online viewing will go up 50%.
4. Pastoral care will focus on psychological issues and the church will finally engage the mental health crisis.
5. Discipleship will occur in groups of three during the workday and groups of 12 or less in homes in the evenings.
6. Missions will focus more on the immediate community than traveling abroad.
7. The church will redefine hospitality in the age of social distancing. There will be no potlucks and no greeting time during the worship service.
8. The church will partner with the business and medical community in new and creative ways to solve community challenges.
9. Money will flow to mission(s) and ministry and out of programs and facilities.
10. Preaching will focus on meaning and significance so that the existential questions people are asking can be answered.