Index:
- Care for pastors and chaplains
- Resources for ministry
- Financial considerations
- General videos
- General news
- Reference materials
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Care for pastors and chaplains
- Terri Hord Owens’ March 20 prayer with and for pastors and chaplains
- Care For Pastors: DHM offers the Well Fed Spirit website
- Five ways to be the church when church is cancelled by Rev. Erin Wathen
Financial support for pastors
- Pastoral assistance from the Pension Fund
- Continuing education funds from Disciples Home Missions
Resources for ministry
Pastoral care
- Join Rev. Terri Hord Owens, General Minister and President, on Wednesdays in April at noon EDT for prayer on Facebook Live.
- National Benevolent Association offering online SoulCare beginning March 25 (March 24, 2020)
- Message from the president of the National Benevolent Association (March 24, 2020)
- A (tech) idea: Set up a free Zoom account for video conferencing and let your friends and members know when you’ll be hanging out to chat
- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, “Taking Care of Your Mental Health in the Face of Uncertainty“
- “HIPAA, Privacy and Care of Church members,” Jonathan Webster, DMin
- Practices for compassionate care and for processing grief from Disciples Home Missions’ Well Fed Spirit site
- Learning more about spiritual care from the Association of Professional Chaplains and the Association of Clinical Pastoral Education – recommended by the Disciples Home Missions’ chaplaincy endorser
- Disciples Men offers podcasts from The Jesus Way
Worship
- General worship resources including tips on livestreaming
- Map of online worship services provided by Disciples Home Missions’ Well Fed Spirit website
Program
- Odyssey Impact offers free lectionary-based video scripture resources (March 30, 2020)
- Children and youth resources for kids out of school and missing worship
Virtual gatherings
- Youth, YA and Children Leaders – NEW!
EVERY Monday, 2:30 pm (EST)
Join Zoom Meeting, Meeting ID: 987 027 306 - Youth, Young Adults, & Leaders Online Faith Discussion
EVERY Tuesday-Friday, 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm (EST)
Join Zoom Meeting: Meeting ID: 795 411 254 - Family, Children, & Leaders Activity Online Faith
EVERY Tuesday-Friday, 11:00 am – 11:30 am (EST),
Join Zoom Meeting: Meeting ID: 180 165 166 - 20 Minute Family Worship & Wonder
EVERY Sunday at 12:45 pm (EST)
Join Zoom Meeting: Meeting ID: 518 674 137
- Youth, YA and Children Leaders – NEW!
- Wellness resources from the Disciples Home Missions Well Fed Spirit site
- Caring for children as spiritual practice from the Disciples Home Missions Well Fed Spirit website
Community action and service
- Ways to support immigrant communities from Refugee and Immigration Ministries (March 16, 2020)
- Spiritual practices for justice from the Disciples Home Missions Well Fed Spirit website
Financial considerations
- Recording: Center for Faith and Giving webinar “Stewardship in a Time of Crisis” (March 26, 2020)
- Recording: Center for Faith and Giving webinar for online giving (March 24, 2020)
- Disciples Church Extension Fund announces loan payment deferral plan (March 20, 2020)
- Stewardship in trying times by Rev. Thad Allen, regional minister (March 20, 2020)
- Online giving information from the Center for Faith and Giving (March 11, 2020)
- Givelify for mobile donations (March 16, 2020)
General video messages
- Video: General Minister and President Terri Hord Owens speaks to the Church (March 20, 2020)
- Video: General Minister and President Terri Hord Owens offers encouragement (March 27, 2020)
General news
- Check up on Disciples colleges/universities and theological institutions in this time
- Pension Fund President Todd Adams shares resources, path forward (March 27, 2020)
- Disciples Church Extension Fund offers updates on their work (March 26, 2020)
- Global Ministries mission co-worker update (March 24, 2020)
- General ministries respond to the COVID-19 outbreak (March 18, 2020)
- CDC guidance for mass gatherings for 8 weeks beginnng March 15 (March 16, 2020)
- Cancellation of mission trips by Disciples Volunteering (March 13, 2020)
- Coordinating and responding to the COVID-19 outbreak (March 6, 2020) The best way to help us assist you is to notify Week of Compassion quickly when someone within your congregation or immediate community is affected.
- Statement of care and compassion (Feb.28, 2020)
Reference materials
The following references are provided for information purposes only. The CC(DOC) does not necessarily endorse the entirety of each organization listed.
Please note: The Christian Church Foundation, Disciples Church Extension Fund, and the Pension Fund are working on an explanation of how the March 27 stimulus act passed by the U.S. Congress may benefit congregations. More info will be posted here as it becomes available. (March 30, 2020)
Personal finances
- Unemployment benefits finder (U.S)
- USDA Food and Nutrition Service response (SNAP benefits) with links to state by state information (U.S.)
- Small Business Administration (U.S.) Economic Injury Disaster Loans
Health Information
- FEMA Disaster Distress hotline (U.S.)
- Public Health Services of Canada resources
- What if a church runs a childcare center in their congregation? DHM offers info an safety information (March 20, 2020)
- Sanitizing your worship space – a video provided by the Christian Church in the Southwest (March 18, 2020)
- Suggested practices (March 10, 2020)
- Insurance Board Safety Resources (March 12, 2020)
- Week of Compassion’s Guidelines for Congregations (March 6, 2020)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Guidance for Faith Communities | “Interim Guidance for Businesses and Employers to Plan and Respond to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), February ” | Hand washing | Information center on COVID-19
- World Health Organization, “Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) advice for the public ” | Q & A on coronaviruses | Myth busters
- “Coronavirus Disease 2019: What You Should Know” Linda G. Manns, RN, MSN, Loudon Avenue Christian Church.
- Faith-based Organizations and Pandemic Preparedness (2007), Scott Santibanez, MD, Catholic Health Association
Crisis Planning
Subtitulado en español
- Short tutorial (text) for simple live stream of worship (provided by the Nebraska region) | Setting up live streaming (provided by the Christian Church in the Southwest) (March 10, 2020) Copyright advice from Chalice Press (March 12, 2020) | 14-day free trial of Switcher live stream software (March 14, 2020)
- One License offers gratis license to help cope with corona virus arrangements (March 13, 2020)
- “A Crisis is a Time for Leadership” from the Center for Faith and Giving (March 12, 2020)
- Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), “Crises In Your Church: A Guide for Congregational Planning to Handle the Unexpected“
Church Rituals and Public Safety
- 100 Ideas for Ministers and Ministry Leaders by Traci Smith
- Thoughts from Rev. David Shirey, Central Christian Church, Lexington, KY on suspending worship
- Prayer of peace from Rev. Jeffery Myers
- Washington Post, “Sip from the common cup? On Ash Wednesday, coronavirus and the flu have religious leaders tweaking rituals.”
Prejudice and the Coronavirus
- Columbia Journalism Review, “The new coronavirus and racist tropes ”
- The Economist, “The pathogen of prejudice: The coronavirus spreads racism against—and among— ethnic Chinese ”
- The Jakarta Post, “Stop prejudice, the novel coronavirus has no race”
- Emory University, “Coronavirus, Community & Compassion”
