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Digital transitions: Meeting your new pastor

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Meeting your new pastor virtually As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to limit faith communities’ ability to gather, some United Methodist churches are preparing to welcome a new pastor. ResourceUMC suggests welcome videos as a way to help facilitate introductions and gives tips for how to create them.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to limit our faith communities’ ability to gather, some United Methodist churches are preparing to welcome a new pastor. Many of the people in those congregations may not be able to meet their new pastor in person for some time. While new pastors and parishioners can learn some about each other swiftly by looking over their social media accounts, consider creating a personalized video to welcome your new pastor. Likewise, ask the new pastors to create videos. The new pastors can introduce themselves and, if they wish, their families to the congregations.  Another approach would be to have pastors who are leaving introduce their successors through a brief interview.

Here are steps for creating either or both welcoming videos.

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