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Investing in Community

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By Larry Short, Community Ministry Director I’ve enjoyed reading what Pastors Martin and Brian had to say in the last two Last Words, regarding proximity. Brian shared the week before last that investing in getting to know people and spending time with them has the power to help us defeat loneliness and disconnectedness, and also …

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Community Groups at Elim: A “Church Within a Church Within a Church”

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By Larry Short, Community Ministry Director This is the final installment in a seven-part series on principles guiding community life at Elim. To read all seven principles in one document, click here. If you’ve ever seen the movie Inception, this concept may sound familiar. In the movie, there are sleuths (Leonardo DiCaprio plays the lead …

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Community Groups at Elim: The Hands and Feet of Jesus

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By Larry Short, Community Ministry Director This is part six in a seven-part series on principles guiding community life at Elim. To read all seven principles in one document, click here. I experienced something of an epiphany 20 years ago, when I traveled to Romania with a group of nine other World Vision staff on …

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Affinity vs. Diversity in Community Groups at Elim

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By Larry Short, Community Ministry Director This is part five in a seven-part series on principles guiding community life at Elim. To read all seven principles in one document, click here. Many people (I among them) consider Elim’s very intergenerational nature one of our greatest strengths. Here we are, a 133-year-old church, but we have …

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Effective Community Groups “Live Life in Proximity”

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By Larry Short, Community Ministry Director This is the fourth in a series of seven posts on guiding principles for Community Groups at Elim. To read all seven principles together, please click here. This one is difficult . . . but inescapable. Our fourth principle is: In the most effective groups, people “live life in proximity.” That …

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Resourcing Community Groups and Group Leaders at Elim

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By Larry Short, Community Ministry Director This is the third in a series of seven posts on guiding principles for community groups at Elim. To read all seven principles together, please click here. It probably sounds way “obvious” to make the following observation: those programs that a church (like ours) places a high value upon are …

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