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Parish Paper

Now Available Online

Thanks to a partnership between Oaktown Christian Church and the Region, The Parish Paper is once again available to Indiana Disciples congregations. Please give attention to the permissions and restrictions below, then download and use the paper in your congregation.

Back issues are available and listed further down on the page.

Current Issue

How Much Should We Pay Our Pastor? (August 2010)

Rights and Responsibilities

Our organization's purchase of photocopy rights for The Parish Paper INCLUDES:

Permission to provide copies to our staff and the congregations within our constituency in any of the following ways: E-mail, Postal, newspaper, newsletter, meetings, training events, and our Website.
Permission for each congregation within our constituency to (a) photocopy or electronically distribute for local use as many copies as it needs, (b) post them on its Website, and (c) quote sentences and paragraphs.

Your congregation does NOT have permission

to delete the copyright notice on page 2;
to re-write, paraphrase, or change the wording of sentences and paragraphs; or
to give ANY THIRD PARTY other than your staff and constituents permission to photocopy or reprint (in any quantity, no matter how small, whether for free distribution or for sale).

Back Issues

Should Our Congregation Use Internet Social Medial? (July 2010)
Why Does Mentoring Succeed and Fail? (June 2010)
Generous Givers: A Product of Motivation and Method (May 2010)
What Can We Learn from the Emerging Church Movement? (April 2010)
New Trends in Belonging (March 2010)
Should We Fine-Tune Our Church's Internal Culture? (February 2010)
Become Comfortable with Conflict: Step One to Moving Beyond It (January 2010)
Are We a Leader-Sending Congregation? (December 2009)
Seven Roads to a Multi-Cultural Congregation (November 2009)
Do We Sing All Five Worship-Hymn Preferences? (October 2009)
Women Pastors: Are Our Assumptions Correct? (September 2009)
Shepherding Congregations Through Grief Storms (August 2009)
Lay Testimonials Strengthen Financial Giving (July 2009)
One Congregation: Many Locations (June 2009)
Permanent Endowment Fund: Blessing and Temptation (May 2009)
What Do People Want in Their Pastors? (April 2009)
Church Website Basics (March 2009)
How Does Church Size Impact Decision-Making? (August 2008)
Making a Good Start with Your New Pastor? (April 2008)
What Core Values Drive Our Church? (January 2008)
Where Do Teenagers Want to Go to Church? (February 2007)
E-mail: Uses and Misuses in Congregations (January 2007)
Financial Stewardship: Myths & Principles (June 2006)