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Pastors, what's keeping you up at night?

The number of pastors who have given serious consideration to quitting full-time ministry has risen dramatically over the past year. What would you like us to know? What do you need help with? Take our 4 Question Poll.

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How many people are trying to get in touch with you via FaithStreet?

The number of people finding churches on FaithStreet is growing every week! How many people are trying to get in touch with you via FaithStreet? Visit your church Dashboard, and navigate to Directory located in the left toolbar.

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This Is Christ's Church

Love Your Church Within Its Limits from Kelly M. Kapic, Christianity Today. Why accepting a congregation's shortcomings is key to developing its strengths.

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Mia Hampton

FaithStreet Art Partners' next featured artist is Mia Hampton! Mia has created cover art, specially designed for the FaithStreet app. This piece of art is inspired by a love for the wilderness.

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How Can We Help You Network with Other Church Leaders?

FaithStreet has a network of over 40,000 church leaders like you. We're exploring new ways to connect you to people and opportunities within our network. We can do more together than we can alone.

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Skip McKinstry

We are pleased to announce FaithStreet Art Partner's next featured artist, Skip McKinstry. Born in Arkansas and raised in Hannibal, Missouri, Skip is an artist and graphic designer who lives in Oklahoma.

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Susan Whitlow

FaithStreet Art Partners is delighted to introduce our next featured artist, Susan Whitlow. A lifelong artist, Susan creates meaningful pieces in her home studio. Her passion for hearing the stories of others has inspired her craft, and she brings those stories to life through canvas and paint.

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Merna Liddawi on Heaven & Earth

FaithStreet Art Partners' next featured artist is Merna Liddawi. Merna is an award-winning artist, who creates a 'selah' space, a space for stillness through nature's pure elements of genuine gold, azurite, egg, chalk and pigments.

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NEW: FaithStreet Art Partners

FaithStreet is glad and grateful to announce the launch of FaithStreet Art Partners. FaithStreet Art Partners brings works from leading faithful artists into the FaithStreet congregation app to bring beauty and inspiration into a space that has traditionally lacked both.

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Prayer Cards

One of the most powerful things we can do as believers is pray for one another. Prayer requests help people share the highs and lows of life together.

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Put a Face to a Name!

Now within the app, you are able to update your profile picture. Put a face to a name, as you stay connected with your community!

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Mornings with FaithStreet

A personal email to kickstart your day with a sense of community and spiritual continuity. Upcoming events, new prayer requests, ongoing prayer needs and more.

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Events & Announcements

It's hard to show up to church sometimes, especially if you didn't go last week or don't know what's happening when. We build this for people like us.

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Help Young Parents Stay Connected

Young families sometimes struggle to stay connected to the local church. Intentional support, encouragement and technology can help.

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The 5 Best Ways to Keep in Touch With External Givers

In today’s changing society, you may find that some of your committed supporters are external, meaning anybody who wants to support your church but is not a member. This could be anyone from a former member who has moved away – say, for college or a job or a few

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8 Tips For a Successful Offering

The offering time is often one of the most overlooked parts of the church service. Many pastors feel awkward about that time or go into autopilot as they rush to get through it. Yet, the offering time should be an occasion to worship God joyfully through generosity and gratitude. Below

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4 Little Problems Solved by Online Giving

Often times when we talk about online giving here at FaithStreet, we speak in broad strokes. You know, “online giving increases giving overall” (it does), or “online giving is affordable no matter how small your church” (it is). That’s what our customers want to hear when they contact us,

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An Interesting Theory on Declining Attendance

For a church leader, attendance is everything. Sure, a lot more goes into a healthy, thriving church, but it all depends on how many butts you have in the pews. With a recent Pew poll finding that people are definitely, maybe, sort of falling out of touch with religion, it’

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Is Your Church Diverse Enough to Survive?

A couple of months ago, OnFaith shared a story titled “Are Millennials Really Leaving the Church? Yes — but Mostly White Millennials.” It got considerable social media exposure, likely because anything nodding in the direction of a doomed church is exceptionally shareable. The piece featured a few statistics, including the following:

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Feeling Burnt Out? Why not Focus on Growth?

Last week at OnFaith, we featured a story from pastor J.R. Briggs titled “Why Half of All Pastors Want to Quit Their Jobs.” Upon further fact checking, we found that titular statistic is… a little spurious, at best a little oversimplified. Still, there’s no denying it: Being a

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Church Growth Doesn't Have to be Organized

“Millennials,” people aged roughly 18-32, are an odd thing (Firefox’s spellcheck doesn’t even recognize the word): As The Washington Post noted last week, they want to live in hip, urban environments, but as soon as they make an are desirable, they often find they can no longer afford

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Is Old-School Thinking Preventing New-School Growth in your Church?

With an increasing number of Americans claiming spirituality but turning away from organized “traditional” denominations, growing an established church can be difficult. If you’re a church leader, you’ve undoubtedly experienced these non-growth pains yourself. However, if we can open our minds a bit, maybe there’s a lesson

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Three simple keys for finding the "right" church

Relevant, an online and print magazine targeted at faith-minded millennials, has a nifty article about finding the “right” church. Given that helping people find a church is FaithStreet’s sole reason for existing, this piqued our interest You’ll have to click through to read the three most important indicators,

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INFOGRAPHIC: Millennials and Religion

Millennials are an ultra-hot topic these days, everywhere from the workplace to their dating habits to, yes, religion. The typical “common knowledge” says that religion doesn’t resonate with millennials because they’re too self-absorbed to be bothered with a higher power. Is that true? “Not exactly,” says The Integrated

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Fill up on Scripture (and Unleaded) at the Gas Station Church

It’s time for another in our series of the weirdest, wildest and most wonderful churches across the land. Belong to (or know of) an unusual church? Drop us a line! Just across the Potomac from Washington, DC sits Arlington, VA, a bustling suburban community that’s as attractive to