Welcoming is good, but it often means “passively waiting,” writes Joseph Yoo. Besides being welcoming, congregations “need to be invitational,” he adds. “It means going out into the world, making contact with people and building relationships with them.” To read more, click here.
Church along the northern border
After 100 years, the sanctuary at Trinity Community Lutheran “is like the inside of a cello or a violin,” said Sydney Morris, a pastor of the congregation. “All that devotion…