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Meet Overseed Field Director Steve Treash

By Maureen Smith | June 24, 2025

Jim Harrell, Jack Daniel, and Steve Treash joined a Zoom call to discuss the exciting things happening at Overseed, including Steve, former pastor of Black Rock Church in Connecticut, joining the Overseed team as a Field Director. Steve shared some profound thoughts about the important work of Overseed and the valuable lessons he’s learned over…

Alpha Can Help Revitalize Your Church

January 25, 2024

I’m not sure I could overstate how much Alpha has impacted the revitalization of our church. In the more than…

A Pastor’s Relationship to his Children

December 19, 2022

“You always put the church ahead of us!” Those were the angry words hurled at our friend by his adult…

A Pastor’s Relationship with Self

November 14, 2022

You are on a plane taxiing for takeoff; the flight attendant takes the microphone and makes the familiar announcement: “In…

A Pastor’s Relationship with his Wife: The Make-or-Break Relationship

November 9, 2022

In the introduction to his classic work A Handbook to Marriage, Theodore Bovet states, “Today for most people the man-woman…

A Pastor’s Relationship with God: How Is Your Soul?

September 21, 2022

The conversation would always begin with the same question; “How is your soul?” After we exchanged greetings and placed our…

Transitions Are His Specialty

August 11, 2022

Terry Shanahan has navigated many transitions during his career and he quickly smiles when he recounts God’s faithfulness through them…

A Pastor’s Relationship with the Church

August 10, 2022

We typically describe a pastor’s relationship to his people in leadership terms, such as shepherd or overseer, and rightly so,…

Conflict in the Church – Part 2 Managing Conflict

April 4, 2022

When I first experienced intense church conflict, it took me by surprise. I had never known anything like it in…

Conflict in the Church – Part 1: Minimizing Conflict

April 4, 2022

Conflict reared its ugly head during my tenth year as pastor of a mainline Congregational church. Prior to my arrival…

A Choice

February 5, 2022

Logan Saunders is not a New Englander by birth. It is a choice. Originally from Virginia, he and his wife…

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