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Review: Every Good Endeavor

Jan 7, 2021By Karen Kogler

Pretty much the highest praise I can give a book is that it is both deeply thoughtful and highly readable. Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work by Tim Keller (2012) earns that praise. Deep and thorough, itRead more…

Jan 7, 2021Karen Kogler 0 Comments

Review: But Now I See. . .

Jan 7, 2021By Karen Kogler

Sometimes life throws us a curve — health or job changes, a world-wide pandemic, a midlife crisis. They often cause us to wonder if and how it all fits into God’s plan for us. In But Now I See: FindingRead more…

Jan 7, 2021Karen Kogler 0 Comments

Tool, a Look at Serving

Oct 29, 2020By Karen Kogler

How’s your serving going? This tool helps you take a look at your overall serving, or an aspect of it. Download it by clicking on the image.

Oct 29, 2020Karen Kogler 0 Comments

Grow in Serving

Oct 29, 2020By Karen Kogler
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Tool: A Look at My Serving

Oct 29, 2020By Karen Kogler

What would my life look like if I saw everything I do as serving Jesus? What if I could serve more intentionally, joyfully, impactfully and faith-fully? What if my church family were to do this? What if Jesus’ followers throughoutRead more…

Oct 29, 2020Karen Kogler 0 Comments

Grow in Serving

Oct 21, 2020By Karen Kogler

How to Grow in ServingRead more…

Oct 21, 2020Karen Kogler 0 Comments

The Covid Pivot

Oct 15, 2020By Karen Kogler

Covid has brought change — tragic changes in health and employment, and inconvenient change, like mask-wearing and limits on eating out. At church we’ve dealt with change in how we worship, share communion, celebrate marriages and bury loved ones. FewRead more…

Oct 15, 2020Karen Kogler 0 Comments

A Caregiver’s Education for Life-Long Serving

Mar 27, 2020By Karen Kogler

Sunday, June 29, 2010, at age 89, my mother-in-law moved in with my husband and I, at our invitation. Monday, Dec. 2, 2019, at age 99, God called her to the home she longed for. In the intervening 9 years,Read more…

Mar 27, 2020Karen Kogler 0 Comments

Simplify Your Serving

Jan 4, 2018By Karen Kogler

Some of us don’t need to be encouraged to serve. We’re serving at church and elsewhere so much so that we’re running nonstop. If you’re overwhelmed by obligations, if a relaxed family dinner is a rarity, if you say ‘yes’Read more…

Jan 4, 2018Karen Kogler 0 Comments

From Compassion to Action

May 30, 2017By Ilse Schmidt

Her commute home from work — that’s what prompted Cheryl Bokelmann’s 17 years of service in St. Peter’s PADS ministry.  Every evening, as she walked from her downtown Chicago office to the Metra station, she noticed the homeless; so manyRead more…

May 30, 2017Ilse Schmidt 0 Comments

Time & Talent & Spiritual Gift Surveys

Oct 25, 2015By Karen Kogler

Time and talent surveys and spiritual gift inventories are two common data-gathering tools in churches. Information about a volunteer’s skills, spiritual gifts, and preferences is always helpful. It allows us to direct our recruitment effort to those most likely toRead more…

Oct 25, 2015Karen Kogler 0 Comments

Good Stuff: Helping Men Serve

Sep 20, 2015By Karen Kogler

What percentage of your volunteers are men? What types of volunteer opportunities do we offer for men? I asked myself these questions while reading “Men Adrift,”a thoughtful, and lengthy, article on how cultural and technology changes have affected men withRead more…

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They ARE Volunteering

Feb 15, 2015By Karen Kogler

You know who volunteers in your church. But do you really know the volunteering behavior of all your people? “A new federal study shows that 1 in 4 Americans volunteered through an organization and two-thirds helped their neighbors last year.”Read more…

Feb 15, 2015Karen Kogler 0 Comments

Lord, What are You Calling Me to Do?

Jan 21, 2015By Karen Kogler

A worksheet on calling Read more…

Jan 21, 2015Karen Kogler 0 Comments

Sharing My Gifts

Jan 11, 2015By Karen Kogler

Sample “Sharing My Gifts” form from St. Peter Lutheran, Arlington Heights, IllinoisRead more…

Jan 11, 2015Karen Kogler 1 comment
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