By: Rev. Cameron Trimble, CEO of Convergence This week in San Francisco at the Wisdom 2.0 + AI Conference, author and CNN Commentator Van Jones spoke of his observations of …
What Does It Take To Change A Congregation?
By Rev. Cameron Trimble, CEO of Convergence In a webinar this week, Rev. Jim Keat, Convergence Director of Online Innovation, asked me what it takes for a congregation to change. …
Is Your Congregation Stuck As You Imagination the Future?
‘What is the world that you would bet on in the year 2070?” I asked the two hundred people from First United Methodist Church participating in a Futures Lab on …
What Is the Essential Work of Congregations?
My grandfather, Rev. Dr. James McCormick, is a retired minister in the United Methodist Church. He spent a lifetime serving congregations as a pastor and as denominational staff. I was …
Are You Ready For Change?
by: Rev. Laura RobinsonUCC Local Church Pastor & Convergence Team Member I spent time last week listening to the conversations that arose out of the “Can the Church Change?” Summit. …
On Becoming Christian
Author and poet Maya Angelou, in a 2011 interview on the occasion of her being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, said, “I’m always amazed when people walk up to …
What Is The Future of Your Congregation?
By Rev. Cameron Trimble, CEO of Convergence To learn more about hosting a Futures Lab for your congregation, contact us at Convergence. We would love to work with you. “We …
I Pray We Are Brave – A New Year Wish
My friend and colleague, Rabbi Esther Lederman, is fierce, kind and brave. She speaks prophetically of the opportunities of these times. She is not shy in calling her movement in …
A New Imagination for Denominational Leadership
Recently, I’ve been in conversations with regional/conference ministers and bishops of varying denominations. Our conversations have flowed something like this: Regional/Conference Minister: “Most of my churches are declining and exhausted. …
When Strangers Seek Shelter
When I turned on the evening news to see the wonderful people of Saint Andrews Episcopal Church on Martha’s Vineyard in the middle of a political firestorm, I remembered that …