Being a Stewardship Leader Requires Clarity
…a finance committee meeting, what is my role in this meeting? I’m not on the finance committee, I’m not the chair. My role in this story is to be the…
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10 Ways to Cultivate a Creative Culture
…be able to call anyone to ask questions and discuss ideas. Don’t force them to communicate through supervisors, managers, or anyone else. Create a free-flowing communications system, and the ideas…
Does Your Church Have Barking Dogs?
…to eliminate some good things because they are competing with and distracting you from the best things for your limited time, resources, and energy. We all know that there are…
Get Off to a Great Start with Volunteers in the New Year
…the fresh start of a new year to implement these tips and watch how these practices strengthen your volunteer team. This article originally appeared on MultiBriefs.com. Used by permission. Related…
Stewardship Resolutions for the New Year
…to catch your breath. It’s a good time to reflect on what you want to do to increase the generosity of your congregation in the coming year and plan a…
What Church Leaders Need to Know About Grants and Crowdfunding
…to explain it to others wishing to contribute; communication skills, whether PR or marketing related; and financial acumen. An article on Crowd101.com provides more ideas. This article originally appeared on…
Top 10 Reasons Visitors Don’t Come Back
…insensitive behavior disappeared years ago. The church guests told us otherwise. In fact, the most common comment was, “You are sitting in my pew.” Unbelievable. Totally unbelievable. 10. Dirty facilities…
Eight Reasons I was Wrong About Short Term Mission Trips
…mindful of the need to care for the people in their own community. Understanding the challenges of serving in other cultures There are unique challenges to serving in every community…
Risking Experiments for God’s Reign
…time like this, the lessons of evolutionary biology can serve institutions well. Growth comes from adaptations to meet the needs of a changed environment. Wholesale abandonment of an organism’s DNA…
4 Key Lessons for Vital Small Church Ministry
…like they are competing against the other faith communities in the area. Oakland UMC, for example, is one of 13 named faith communities in a town with a population of…
Moving Forward in Uncertain Times
…majority will come along over time and the laggards may never support a change initiative, so your energy is wasted trying to get their support. Building commitment and moving forward…
Mutual Mentoring
…Cross-generational mentoring relationships at their best permit young and old to serve each other in a spirit of humility and openness with the goal of mutual growth and ministry development….
7 Key Questions to Focus Your Change Agenda
…come well beyond your wildest imagination. Seeking to “reach younger people” may seem like a limited effort. However, if successful, the changes required to achieve the goal and the impact…
Connecting with the People God Has Placed in Your Pathway
…displays. Are these lively, up to date, and designed to connect with someone not yet part of your church? If a community choir practices in your social hall, make sure…
Look for Options, Not Solutions
…overflowing or scarcely attended. An education leader fields complaints each week about teachers arriving late or holding students well past the ending time. It honors and empowers others to bring…
Wide Welcome: How the Unsettling Presence of Newcomers Can Save the Church
…learned through participation in congregational practices such as Bible study, prayer, worship, care for one another, service toward neighbor, and many others,” she writes. “Newcomers gain knowledge and skill only…
Should We Go From Two Worship Services to One?
…of “occasional” combined services raises issues of its own. If the combined services are around “special” occasions, then there will of course be more attendance and energy. This added energy…
Review of What’s Theology Got to Do With It?: Convictions, Vitality, and the Church
…all believers.” Robinson attempts to show specific connections between core theological beliefs and the practices of healthy congregations. What makes this book unique is what Robinson does next. Robinson attempts…
7 Ways to Invest in Your Staff Culture
…of building a community, find ways to build the collective competency of the team. Consider being a team that reads together. Use books to build a common language and expand…
Church Leadership Holds Much in Common with Gardening
Robert Martin likens church leadership to gardening because it requires knowledge of the climate, vision, and hard work. I could have kicked myself. There I stood in front of our…
From Faithful Ministry to Fruitful Leadership
…of the elements reacts with each other to yield something the individual elements alone could not produce. It is not enough to have the components alone. Their power in combination…
Squandering Leadership Potential?
…a competitive college and a fine theological school to prepare for a lifetime of ordained ministry. In his first year back in Mississippi, at the age of twenty-five, he had…
Affirming and Improving Clergy Effectiveness
…But the content analysis revealed that there are certain essential aspects of competence that relate to knowledge and teaching, proclamation and worship, pastoral skills, administrative skills, professional judgment, and strategic…
What Leaders Need to Know about the Emerging Church
…practices that celebrate the mystery of God, such as iconography, sensory elements like candles and incense, and experiencing the sacrament of Holy Communion weekly. These old practices are made to…
Reaching More Disciples
…an economic recession shaped much of the latter years. The common 21st century challenge for churches across all sizes, regions, and traditions is to reach more people, younger people, and…
Top Leading Ideas Articles of 2020
…must manage anxiety, embrace the freedom of unknowing, explore new possibilities and avoid acting prematurely. Read more now. 6 Traits People Value in Online Faith Communities In the rush to…
Dreams Take Leadership…and Time
Will Campbell died earlier this summer. He was known as an eccentric Baptist preacher who fought fiercely for justice but was never comfortable with the conventional practices of churches. Campbell…
Top “Leading Ideas” Articles of 2017
…difference between volunteering and Christian service and between recruiting and inviting. They name five best practices for engaging people in meaningful ministry roles. Read more. 4 Practices to Help Prevent…
Hope Rages
…hopeful because we know that when God’s victory comes, it will be ours. It may come tomorrow. It may come in three hundred years. But, when it comes, it will…
Matters of Life and Death
…several different angles, the work draws on Lawrence’s knowledge as a historian, his intimate memories of how the congregation he grew up in supported his family and the broader community,…
