What’s with the name “Future Church Pilots?”
What’s with the pilots part of this project’s name? Are we taking flying lessons?
What are New Missional Communities?
Future Church Pilots emerged from St. Lydia’s Dinner Church, a fifteen-year-old NMC in Brooklyn that has grown from a new church plant to a partner congregation in the life of the ELCA.
Lilly Compelling Preaching Initiative—what’s it all about?
In the early 2020s, Lilly Endowment, Inc., fondly and somewhat cheekily known as the Church’s One Foundation, invited a select group to apply for grants in a new initiative they called Compelling Preaching. One of the largest foundations in the United States, Lilly Endowment gives millions in support of “efforts that enhance the vitality of congregations and strengthen the pastoral and lay leadership of Christian communities.” This new initiative grew out of the acknowledgement that we are living through a time of significant change for Christianity in North America.