Welcome to Made for Mondays Today we continue talking about different trends in black churches for the next 5-10 years. Here are a list of trends 1 - Women in Leadership -2 - Black and **other races**  churches will grow. Multi Racial churches driven by white preachers will not - 3 - Increase in conversions 4 - Giving will be down 20-30% 5 - Pastors Leaving churches completely. 6 - Less people going into ministry long term 7 - Digital ministry is another “church” 8-VR/AR/AI web9 - Boomer and Millennials will drive churches 10 - Need for spaces to teach secular theories with scripture (sexuality/CRT etc) So what?  If these are trends, what can we do? Here are four suggestions:  1 - Look for Giving from Community Businesses2- Be mindful of what you ingest3 – Diversify your Skillset for Co-vocational and bi-vocational ministry4 - Collaborative ministry without Denominational guidelines See you Next Monday!www.jrlester.comLink’s Mentioned in Today’s Podcast:- Purchase Brown Dad Brown Boy Brown Basketball - https://amzn.to/3cEArS1- Purchase Necessary Endings! - https://amzn.to/37T0TEa- Purchase Let’s Play Church - https://amzn.to/3QcEQgPFollow Justin online @Twitter/Instagram - @Mr_jlester Give yourself a license to live!