Choosing Joy in the Face of Disruption and Loss
…about being proactive (Habit 1), sharpening the saw (Habit 7), and beginning with the end in mind (Habit 2). This is my time to be proactive by using my time…
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Episode 36: “Think Big” featuring Joe Daniels
…pastor of Emory Fellowship in Washington DC, and co-author of the new book, Connecting for a Change: How to Engage People, Churches, and Partners to Inspire Hope in Your Community….
New Possibilities are All around You
…have) and makes it very difficult to see things and people as assets. This “lens of scarcity” colors everything and can lead to hopelessness, fear, defeat, desperation, and depression. Furthermore,…
Episode 22: “Anxious to Talk About It: Helping White Christians Talk Faithfully About Race” featuring Carolyn Helsel
How can white Christians talk faithfully about racism? In this episode Carolyn Helsel discusses her book, Anxious to Talk about It, with Lewis Center Associate Director Ann Michel….
Cross-Cultural Pastor as Spiritual Bridge Builder
…racial-ethnic, cross-racial, and cross-cultural pastors especially develop personal virtues, such as “patience,” “remembering who they are,” and “letting go,” which are also significant characteristics of bridge builders. Building bridges by…
Eliminating the Downward Drag of Ministry Clutter
…deserved a funeral and burial long ago! These “walking dead” programs can drain the church’s resources of time, focus, personnel, and finances. Advent overload I recall one especially cluttered Advent-Christmas…
Choose Your Hills Wisely
…mule. You can’t just sit still if you want to lead. You have to pedal! “Where there is no vision, the people perish” (prov 29:18 a KJV). “When there’s no…
4 Keys to Developing Emerging Generation Leaders
…take action on them. After we’ve poured into, grown, taught, made into disciples, mentored, and passed on all the wisdom we possibly can, there comes the time for letting the…
4 Goals that Promote Healthy Multicultural Ministry
…interaction between cultures is often very unhealthy. Interaction may be marked, on one hand, by stereotyping, prejudice, unwarranted suspicion, racism, and even overt verbal and physical violence. On the other…
7 Steps to Reengage Your Community
…Learn and lead with others in addressing current justice issues. In 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. shared a lecture assembly in Hollywood, Florida, entitled “Don’t Sleep Through the Revolution.”…
How to Grow the Leaders Your Church Needs to Thrive
…process. Servant leader volunteers should always be learners and mentees, continually learning and growing. They should always be mentoring, sharing, and showing. They should continually be encouraging, resourcing, and empowering…
7 Policies Every Church Needs for Trust and Transparency
…and use of facilities, such as food preparation, sound systems, worship space activities and supplies, set-up and clean up expectations, safety, and insurance verification. Information on fees, keys, and emergency…
Do Your Church Programs Obscure Your True Mission?
…bazaar. Our calendar has entries for the women’s group, the men’s group, the singles’ group, the youth group, the prayer group, the garden club, the seekers’ group, and so on….
A Birthday Party for Jesus
…Birthday dear Jesus, Happy Birthday to you. As the years passed, more and more came to celebrate Jesus’ birthday with us. Early on, a grandmother who was waiting for her…
Episode 29: “A More Engaging Hospitality” featuring Dr. Juan Francisco Martínez
…Hispanic Studies and Pastoral Leadership at the Fuller School of Theology in Pasadena, California. His most recent book is The Story of Latino Protestants in the United States (Eerdmans, 2018)….
Lent: A Time to Reflect on New Possibilities and Where God is Leading Us
…the importance of keeping communication consistent cannot be underestimated. Make sure the information conveyed through multiple methods — websites, email blasts, texts, worship slides, newsletters, flyers on the backs of…
5 Ways to Engage People the Way Jesus Did
…kingdom subjects. Now live like it. Live out your God-created identity. Live generously and graciously toward others, the way God lives toward you” (MSG, Matt. 5:48). 5. Jesus coordinated systems…
Prayer is the Spiritual Electricity of Congregational Revitalization
…where God wants to lead you next. It can transform a church refrain of “Woe is us” to “Wow, look at us!” — assuming of course, that when you pray…
4 Ways to Build Your Social Media Presence
…live video is most effective. 4. Create Facebook groups to enable deeper engagement. Facebook groups bring together individuals who share a common interest. For example, small groups, mission teams, or…
Episode 32: “Becoming a Rapidly Growing Church” featuring Matt Miofsky
…episode we speak with Matt Miofsky, founding and lead pastor of The Gathering in St. Louis, about the book he wrote with Jason Byassee, 8 Virtues of Rapidly Growing Churches….
5 Keys to Great Online Worship Hospitality
…When you offer online worship, invite the online community to share in these special experiences. For example, during communion, you may ask the online viewers, “As you take communion symbolically…
Why Some Ministries Need to Die
…said to him, “Yeah, go ahead. Don’t do it. We’ll make sure the Worship Committee knows.” He replied, “What are you going to do with people who complain?” I said,…
Successful Planning and Evaluation for Religious Organizations
…results. Churches, along with many serving institutions, tend to focus more on “what we do” and “how we do it” than on “what we accomplish.” Church leaders can always claim…
So That: Two Powerful Words for Mission Results
…Results (Abingdon Press, 2010) by Lovett H. Weems, Jr., and Tom Berlin. Used by permission. The book is available through Cokesbury and Amazon. Related Resources: Do Your Church Events Serve…
Staying Attuned to Your Community
…on to add that without the outside, there is no inside (Harvard Business Review, May 2009). John Kotter, in his book A Sense of Urgency (Harvard Business Press, 2008), gives…
Building Trust for Effective Team Ministry
…Essential for Leadership by Lovett H. Weems, Jr. Listening: A Key Team Building Skill by Robert C. Crosby Church Leadership: Vision, Team, Culture, and Integrity by Lovett H. Weems, Jr….
Listening: A Key Team Building Skill
…not only tracking verbally but viscerally, as well. (“Yes” … “I see” … “mmm, hmm” … “all right” … “I follow you” … and so forth.) Rapt posture. While you…
Expanding Small Group Involvement in Your Commitment Campaign
…to office volunteers, the church set-up and tear-down team, youth choir, men’s quartet, and band, as well as to the formal administrative teams in the church, such as finance, trustees,…
Your Community is Your Congregation
…As John Wesley put it, the world is our parish. This material is adapted from Joe’s book, Walking with Nehemiah: Your Community is Your Congregation (Abingdon Press, 2014). It is…
Churches Where Youth Exhibit Highly Devoted Faith
…Christ” emphasize spiritual growth, discipleship, and vocation promote outreach and mission help teens develop “a positive, hopeful spirit,” “live out a life of service,” and “live a Christian moral life.”…
