Planting justice and harvesting hope for NIJFON
Northern Illinois Justice for Our Neighbors (NIJFON) has been blessed with a $25,000 gift from Berry Memorial UMC in Chicago through the sale of the church’s historic building. A…
Grants:
- Congregational Life Grants
- Grant Evaluation
- Town and Rural Keagy Grant Application 2019 (deadline March 15)
- Town and Rural P.A.C.K Grant Application 2019 (deadline March 15)
Forms:
- Church Conference Forms
- Background Checks (scroll down toward bottom of Safe Sanctuaries page)
- Rainbow Covenant
- Nominations
Resources:
Pastoral Transition Materials
- Pastoral Transitions Workshop June 6 (pdf) June 8 (pdf)
- Contribution Election (UMPIP)
- Ethics of Our Life Together (pdf)
- Social Media Guidelines
- Suggestions for Churches with a Single Pastor
- Suggestions for Churches with a Young Pastor
- Suggestions for Churches with a Clergywoman
- The First 90 Days
- Why Women are Clergy
- Transition Resource
- Parsonage guidelines
- 50 Ways to Welcome Your New Pastor
- 50 Ways to Improve Pastoral Transition
- The Right Start: Beginning Ministry in a New Setting — COVID-19 Supplement
- Employer Assistant Program (EAP) Fact Sheet
- Movies & Books for Intercultural Studies
Rule of Christ Documents
- For a training video, manual and documents click here.
Sexual Harassment Documents