“Making Your Church a Community Asset – a Center for Community Life”
16 min 39s
Rev. Quentin Chin
Creative examples of using the church’s assets for the benefit of the wider community in a way that is mutually beneficial;
Instead of First Church of – name your town, if we’re a community asset, we might think about our name as the First Church for – name your town;
Rather than a “Tag Sale,” have a “Trunk Sale;”
Connecting with people in the community who might benefit from your church’s space;
Narrowing the gap between ministry and mission;
Quentin lives in Pittsfield, MA, with his wife, Amy. He has a bachelor’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Illinois. He received his M. Div. from Union Theological Seminary in 2002. He has served as an interim pastor for several congregations in western Massachusetts, including UCC, American Baptist, and United Methodist. All but two of the congregations have been part-time. He has been a hospice spiritual counselor for ten years. He also served as a chaplain for homeless veterans. He taught workforce ethics to inmates at the Berkshire County House of Corrections. He has also served the wider church. He wrote several worship services for Worship Ways and was the author for a General Synod worship in 2015. He was also on the writing team for the revised Manual on Ministry.
- Recorded in November 2022
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