A Travel Free Learning Article
By Ruben Swint, Ministry Colleague with The Columbia Partnership
Voice: 404.314.7273, E-mail: RSwint@TheColumbiaPartnership.org, Web Site: www.TheColumbiaPartnership.org
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TFL Dialogue, Ruben Swint on The Hunt for Green October
How will your time and energy be spent at church this fall? With the summer ending, school back in session and vacations over, church life returns to regular ministry, activities and events. Attendance goes up. Giving strengthens. Sermon series are launched. Bible study begins with a new curriculum. The normal rhythm of church life returns. With all that occurs during the fall months, will you also be hunting for a green October?If you serve a congregation with traditional church heritage or characteristics, you will likely be involved in the hunt for a green October. You will participate in a budget planning and approval process, a push for year-end contributions to cover this year’s ministry costs, and/or a stewardship campaign to pledge next year’s budget. All three processes usually occur in the fall and you may not be looking forward to any of them.

WILMINGTON, N.C. — Transformation doesn’t happen overnight, especially for a sizable downtown church with a lengthy history and traditions to match. But transformation can happen, and when it does, amazing things follow in its wake.