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Continue reading →: What Can Churches Do to Respond to Disaster?Before last week, I had never heard of an “atmospheric river.” The term was first coined in 1998 to describe a column of water vapour that moves through the atmosphere, like a river in the sky. An atmospheric river can bring much needed water to an area, but it can…
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Continue reading →: Leading Churches Through COVIDSeveral months ago when I was invited to be part of a brainstorming group around “resourcing the post-COVID church,” my first thought was, “What? Are we anywhere near the ‘post-COVID’ church?” After all for the last year, I had stopped by the church office just a few times to pick…
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Continue reading →: An Open and Unafraid Look at the PsalmsI love this short film on Bono (lead singer for the Irish rock band U2), Eugene Peterson (author of The Message and so many other fine books on Christian life and ministry), and their common interest in the Psalms. The film is based on interviews by David Taylor, a faculty…
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Continue reading →: To All the People of God Who Know They’re “Not Quite Fine”To all the people of God who know they’re “not quite fine” but don’t know who to talk with. To all the people of God who can see someone’s “not quite fine” but don’t know how to talk about it. Together, let’s walk into our calling for “such a time…
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Continue reading →: To Be the Community We Crave, We Need LimitsI started reading A Spacious Life: Trading Hustle and Hurry for the Goodness of Limits by Ashley Hales (InterVarsity Press, 2021), and I could feel myself relaxing as I read: Our God-given limits are the doorway to a more spacious life. What might happen if we tried embracing our limits…
When You Work for the Church
Hello,
I’m April Yamasaki
Welcome to When You Work for the Church. I’ve been a church volunteer and a full-time pastor. I’ve led small groups and served on denominational committees. When I resigned from pastoral ministry to focus on my writing, I knew that I wanted to be—needed to be—grounded in a local congregation. I love the church!
But I also know that churches and church organizations have not always lived up to their calling, have brought harm instead of healing. So I started this website to share resources for doing ministry better, and pray that together we might serve more faithfully and effectively.
For a healthy rhythm of work and rest, I’d love to send you my ebook.
When You Work for the Church 