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We celebrated and signed a partnership... now what?
Elissa Wright Elissa Wright

We celebrated and signed a partnership... now what?

In the middle of an Annual Meeting focused on the beauty of partnership, the BCNE formally entered into a plan to cooperate with the IMB’s Western European Affinity. It’s our hope to connect churches in New England to Kingdom workers on a mission field that looks and feels an awful lot like home.

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Reentry plans: Strategy is a great start, but strategy alone is not enough
Communications Director Communications Director

Reentry plans: Strategy is a great start, but strategy alone is not enough

I have spent untold hours over the last couple of weeks reading through numerous reentry plans and guidelines offered up by church strategy consultants, a wide-variety of denominational bodies and churches who are further along in their bell curve than my local community. As a pastor who is now beginning to work with my teams on planning our own attempts at returning to public gatherings, I’m thankful for those who are a few steps ahead of me and have not only spent time thinking through an endless list of issues and considerations to arrive where they have, but also have made their work available for others to learn from. I believe that each of these offerings has been fruitful to me and worth my time. I have also learned three very clear things:

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