{"id":495,"date":"2006-05-23T10:38:43","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T14:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=495"},"modified":"2006-07-02T21:51:03","modified_gmt":"2006-07-03T01:51:03","slug":"resources-for-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"Resources for growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just got off the phone&#8230; I was talking with Susanna Whitman, the Growth Services Administrator at the Unitarian Universalist Association. I needed to order a big outdoor banner saying &#8220;Marriage Is a Civil Right,&#8221; which Susanna&#8217;s office handles, but in the process of ordering it we got to talking about church growth. Susanna pointed me in the direction of several great resources:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uua.org\/cde\/education\/\">New Congregation and Growth Resources<\/a> has links to dozens of resources.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uua.org\/cde\/largechurches\/library\/index.html\">Large Congregations Library<\/a> is a new page of short articles on growth topics. Susanna pointed out that even though I&#8217;m in a small church, many of these articles are relevant to our needs, too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uua.org\/pamphlet\/3101.html\">Religious Hospitality<\/a> is a new pamphlet written for lay leaders. Loosley based on the book <em>Radical Hospitality,<\/em> it offers a religious rationale for why we should welcome people into our congregations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just got off the phone&#8230; I was talking with Susanna Whitman, the Growth Services Administrator at the Unitarian Universalist Association. I needed to order a big outdoor banner saying &#8220;Marriage Is a Civil Right,&#8221; which Susanna&#8217;s office handles, but in the process of ordering it we got to talking about church growth. Susanna pointed me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}