Innovating Successfully as a Small Church in a Small Town
12 min 58 s
Rev. Dawn Adams
Tips for making innovation and experimentation work for a small church;
Responding innovatively to the different church participation behaviors of younger generations;
Balancing it all: engaging the congregation while also maintaining healthy boundaries;
Examples of successful collaboration with other clergy for worship, Advent, Lent, that lessen one’s work load; Collaboration should make things easier not harder;
Dawn M. Adams is the pastor of the First Congregational Church of Brimfield, UCC (MA). She received her Masters of Divinity from Andover Newton Seminary in 2015 and is currently a fellow of the Pastoral Innovation Network of New England through the Hartford International University of Peace and Religion. Her undergraduate degree is in Elementary Education from Southern Connecticut State University. She is also wife, mother, and grandmother who loves reading, writing (especially poetry), and hiking in the woods. She loves bringing art and action into worship and has a deep heart for mission.
- Recorded in April 2022
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