These quarterlies will include materials for an extended opening exercise with emphasis on missions education and discipleship training. Other denominational programs Church Music, Missions Education, Pastoral Ministries and the like are developing ideas for projects and events that can be used in smaller churches, recognizing that these are the ways small churches do church. Small churches become family chapels. That is, most of the folks become kind to one another. This is inevitable in a small, stable community.
Some families are good families.
This is true in churches as well. But, there are unconcerned families and there are also some unconcerned churches. Most criticisms of family chapels note that they are too complacent, dominated by a patriarch, too hard for an outsider to join, too traditional and resistant to change. Having developed bonds of mutual trust with the church, you might intervene during an interim period between pastors. You might help the church face up to one or more of these problems or other problems stemming from them.