By Doug Talley Life is demanding. That feels truer today than ever. I suspect every generation has said that. With each generation, the pace probably quickens, the demands mount, the stresses increase, and the capacity to recharge seems to decrease. Pastors feel this, too – at least as much as others. Maybe more. Pastors do

By Marcia Weller County Line Church of God in Auburn, Indiana launched its first satellite church on October 7, 2018.  Senior Pastor Stuart Kruse cast a vision for a satellite campus in the Garrett community stating, “Church multiplication has been an amazing journey for me.  I went from being a naysayer to one of its

By Jeff Matas As I talk with churches and other employers, I’m hearing that one of the first prospective employee checks they do is scan social media: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc…  I suppose we could call this the first interview.  People who do not know or use good social media manners often do not make it

By Tom Planck and Israel Munguia The story of the community surrounding Westlake Church on the west side of Indianapolis is familiar to many churches across the state. The culture has vastly changed over the past several years. A once mostly Caucasian community has now shifted to include a large population of African American and

By Doug Talley I was working with a church to help them address some issues and needed to read their bylaws to help them move forward appropriately. As I read them, I came across a section that said one of the responsibilities of the board was to protect the church’s assets by safeguarding them for

Like you, my heart broke as I heard about the New Zealand mass shooting of Muslims. It is unfathomable to me that a person could be so full of fear, superiority and hate that he’d deliberately execute people for any reason, much less in the name of an ideological belief or race. But we keep

By Josh Wagner For 3 years, it was just a dream. We spent countless hours in prayer, conversation, visioning, ideating, wrestling, arguing, and finally launching United City Church. We officially started on October 7th. This dream that my wife, Nonni, and I had of starting a life-giving, multiethnic church in Indianapolis, finally happened! Our vision

By Doug Talley Indiana Ministries and Crosspoint Church (thank you, Curt Walters & team) recently hosted a workshop on relating to LGBTQ+ persons without compromising our traditional Christian beliefs about gender, marriage, and sexuality. Ty Wyss of Walls Down Ministries did a stellar job guiding us in this conversation. We had almost 180 persons registered.

By Amanda Daniel The Foundry is a new church plant that began in 2018 in Colombia City. Indiana Ministries is thankful to be in partnership with a local sending church. The Foundry is up and running! Six short months after being sent from Warsaw Church of God, God has shaped and designed this church to be