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There are many, many more people who are trained as various types of faith leaders than are actively functioning as faith leaders.
To meet the demand for spiritual care and education of everyone on the planet, we will all need to say ‘yes!’ to our callings again.
With the help of today’s expanding technologies, as more people gain internet access, your greatest gifts of love can reach others’ greatest needs, just around the corner and clear around the globe.
We, faith leaders, should embody unifying, loving human relationships between all peaceful belief systems. People should be able to search one place for the faith leaders of all peace-loving faiths that are near them. We should be easily seen smiling, laughing and embracing one another so that everyone else knows that it is possible, right and good to nurture those friendships.
The Faith Leader Directory is a searchable database of faith leaders and faith communities. It is separate from the Be Kind Humans private, online universe. Although there are faith leaders and communities in both places, they are not automatically the same faith leaders or communities.
The Faith Leader Directory includes faith communities and, separately, their faith leaders. However, our design and theology were first developed to resource the faith leaders who are not pastoring congregations. Yes, congregational pastors are needed in this combined directory, but they are the add-on, we let them in also ... after you. Our ministries were birthed for your ministries first.
If the Faith Leader Directory begins to display a homogenous bunch of leaders or communities, then it will have failed at its mission to reflect the diversity of created people. This directory needs you and your community or else you and your community will be invisible. The world needs you. They need your exact face, your voice, your gifts, your love, whatever it is that you bring. Add your listing to the Faith Leader Directory and consider the other services on this page.
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Until now, faith leaders without a congregation to support them have usually been unable to overcome the entry costs to launch their own ministry. Instead of pastoring congregations they disappeared from ministry and blended into the secular workforce, grieving then forgetting their earlier callings.
Today, however, it is the “unaffiliated” or “independent” faith leader that the postmodernists, Spiritual But Not Religious (SBNR), Nones and others prefer.
Independent faith leaders can now afford a place to do ministry! Whatever positive, healthy, loving, constructive ministry you can imagine, we are striving to put the means within reach. You want to have a base, an office, a classroom, a great hall, a bulletin board, an event space, or all of the above for one low price? Done. Want to plant a church ... anywhere? Done. Need to work it as a "side hustle" nights while you grow? Done. Of the six billion people on the planet, a few people are looking online for what you have to offer right now. Some are probably within walking distance, if you have an in-person offering. We want them to be able to find your place of ministry.
Beyond what the Faith Leader Directory can offer as a database, a digital space inside Be Kind Humans you can tailor your place to host the kinds of activities that fit your offerings. You can provide an experience of you, inasmuch as you would like. People can get to know you or, at least, feel as if they know you. You might have books to sell, pre-marriage counseling, pastoral care, a class to teach or a congregation you want to plant. You may want to meet only in-person, only digitally, only after 7pm, or some whatever fits your life. You can share your own link (URL) or email invitations straight from your personal space. You can charge a one-time fee, a subscription, or be 100% free to the public. You can be open to the public for free and charge for certain events, classes or take free-will offerings.
It's your ministry, build it to suit. Purchase a Faith Leader SPACE Plan, login, then message me (UU Jay McNeal) inside Be Kind Humans to set up your personal ministry space.
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Faith Leader Access is the same as General Public Access except that it adds a growing number of faith-leader-only private spaces (United Faith Leaders, courses, events, etc.). Like the General Public Access Membership, each faith leader has their own wall, chat, and profile page.
Every member of Be Kind Humans gets a personalized Member Dashboard, and access to the coffeeshop (for assorted events and conversations, open 24/7), the gift shoppe and Be Kind Human’s very own podcast, Be Doing Faith.
We are keenly aware that the greatest asset everyone in the Be Kind Humans universe gets is everyone else, including you.
Our era of apps and the internet has enabled entire generations to experience faith leaders at a safe distance before introducing themselves. Faith leaders do not need to live online or add lots of work to their plates in order to give a measure of visibility as the public figure faith leaders are expected to be. In fact, the 24/7 accessibility to your content and interactions enables profound efficiencies for your ministries and workflow. It is a healthy, safe practice to observe how people interact with others before you approach them. The internet lets people do that from a very safe distance before they approach you. How can people get to know you if you don't spend time with them? We will teach you how to be available 24/7 without becoming tied to technology.
Work less, serve more. Allowing others to see what you do in ministry is even better than making them come into a congregation and watch you from across the room. Here they can experience you at 2am when they can't sleep (and you are sound asleep or even on vacation).
Join the Be Kind Humans universe through a Faith Leader Access plan. It is that simple.
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As a faith leader, you get access to faith-leader-only content, support, spaces, education and relationships.
Ministry is that to which we committed. We committed to act lovingly, that the joy, peace and beauty of our natural world could be seen and shared among every person. We committed to a vision we could not even fully understand at the time, a world so diverse we will not grasp it in one lifetime.
While Be Kind Humans is a practical ministry, its vision of interfaith, multi-faith, and non-faith kindness is in harmony with creation all around us. Our faith, religions, spiritualities can be measured by how we treat one another. Each tradition and human has faltered but we all have the opportunity today to remember our pasts and lead together with kindness into the future.
Nearly every faith leader is wired with deep humility and an interest in learning about other faith leaders and their beliefs. United Faith Leaders neighborhood inside of Be Kind Humans is designed for faith leaders to learn together, from experts, and about one another. UFL is also a space to find peer fellowship and pastors for pastors - coaching, counseling, education, etc.
When any Faith Leader (or Faith Community) plan is purchased, United Faith Leaders is included, making the "Faith Leaders Only" Neighborhood visible to you with other faith leaders. You can engage faith leaders there or in the wider private universe with public members. You can take or teach courses, restricted to faith leaders or not. Classes may be live or on-demand, free or paid, determined by the teacher (which could be you).
For every faith leader that has the financial support of a faith community for the ministry they are offering here, please utilize the Pricing for Faith Communities.
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