by Eddie Pipkin
You may or may not have seen a recent article from the Lewis Center for Church Leadership identifying ministry trends for 2024. You will already be familiar with them in some form, since you are likely dealing with them in practical ways. The Lewis Center, after all, has a bird’s-eye view, surveying ministry from an expansive perch, and you have a ground-level perspective, thick in the day-to-day details as you are getting the work done. Some of the identified trends will be achingly familiar to you, some less so, and some may even be a surprise to you if you are uniquely insulated from certain cultural currents, but it’s worth focusing a bit on these trendy observations, especially from the standpoint of smaller and medium-sized congregations.
You can link to the Lewis Center Article, here: “7 Trends Impacting Church Leadership for 2024,” authored