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The Search Process in 3 Steps

Church Development, Consulting, Leadership

In the last several entries, I have been addressing the matter of hiring new key staff members. If you have followed along, you will have read about common pitfalls and the importance of self-assessment before actively searching for your new team member. In this post,...

Five questions to ask yourself before making a significant church staff hire

Church Development, Consulting, Leadership

If you are part of a church staff, it is inevitable that at some point your team will be making some important hires. Whether you are looking to replace an old staff member who choose to move on, or you are growing as a community and need more support; you will need...

Journey toward a new beginning: How can we raise up more small group leaders?

Leadership

One thing about church during a time of pandemic is certain: we need to do more things in smaller groups. The limiting factor for reaching people is no longer how many people you can gather in one place; it is how many leaders you can raise up. The limiting factor for...

Journey toward a new beginning: How can we adapt worship?

Leadership

There is no way around it. Taking a traditional large church service and doing precisely the same thing in a small group just feels strange. A twenty-minute sermon in a living room or backyard? Congregational singing? Much of what we have been doing for worship for...

Journey toward a new beginning: How can you raise people’s awareness of God’s presence?

Leadership

When people are accustomed to being reminded of God’s presence in a church building during a church service—and you may not be able to do that—how can you build awareness of God’s presence outside of the building? How can you help them see that God is still here,...

Journey toward a new beginning: How do we get people on board?

Leadership

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a challenge to brainstorm ways to thrive as if things were to stay the way they are now for the next three to four years. Innovation means change. To make any effective change—from worship, to small groups, to children’s ministry—you...

The Search Process in 3 Steps

Five questions to ask yourself before making a significant church staff hire

Journey toward a new beginning: How can we raise up more small group leaders?

Journey toward a new beginning: How can we adapt worship?

Journey toward a new beginning: How can you raise people’s awareness of God’s presence?

Journey toward a new beginning: How do we get people on board?

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