From Scarcity to Abundance: How a Small Church Survived and Grew Without a Full-Time Pastor

St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Moravia is a small church in Central New York. Through a “Team Ministry” approach that emphasizes lay leadership, the congregation and ministries have grown even though the church does not have a full-time priest or pastor.

In this video, recorded during a May 2017 presentation to the Central Crossroads Conference of the Upstate New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the people of St. Matthew’s tell their story.

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