Getting to Nimble

We’re back! Bill and I share updates on our lives (new baby! co-first-grade-teacher!) and then drive into what we’re all experiencing these days: Covid fatigue.

We don’t know what the future is bringing, but we can be active right now to imagine the New that we’re heading toward. A note for listeners: this is our last episode for a few months while Sarah is on maternity leave. Stay nimble!

Here’s how we’re planning for the fall – with curiosity and a focus on the big “whys” of the ministries we lead. Joining us is Christine V. Hides, Director of Christian Education at Kenilworth Union Church.

Freedom to move, to eat, to coffee. This and other ways we see in-person worship changing because of our extended time at home. (Spoiler alert: Sarah’s keeping the comfy pants.)

It’s often easier to change while we’re already in the midst of change because our old habits and systems are in flux. Bill and Sarah talk about using this changing season to think through our systems at church.

A snapshot of where we are in terms of emotions and how we’re planning/not-planning, then a longer conversation about starting (or hopefully, continuing) anti-racist work in our churches starting with one-on-one relationships.

Online worship, nimbly opening (while expecting future closures), and planning in a season of flux.

Changing our musical habits is hard (and oddly enough right now, maybe both easier and harder than ever). In this episode, we talk with Paul Vasile about being open to musical change and helping others embrace the new, even when they’re sure they only want what they already know.