Ten Strategies for Handling Transition Well 

Ten Strategies for Handling Transition Well 

Leadership

Changes have big impact on people. How many times have you tried to implement a good and needed change only to be met with serious resistance? You may be trying to change service times, introducing a new small group curriculum, upgrading your children’s ministry...
Not all obstacles are obvious

Not all obstacles are obvious

Leadership

If you’re a big-vision kind of leader, you know the excitement of getting people on board, excited, and moving together toward a vision. You also know you need to identify your obstacles beforehand so they don’t derail your plans. Identifying those obstacles and...

When will you get it right?

Leadership

When you put so much work into something that has the potential for great good, it’s a bit of a gut punch when it falls flat. But you pick yourself and try again… and again. When will you get it right? Don’t give up When developing something new, you...
How do I get my congregation from here to there?

How do I get my congregation from here to there?

Leadership, Visionizing

How do we get back to normal? It’s a common question these days. After all, most restrictions are lifted and with the nearly constant pivoting that’s taken place over the last year and a half, we are craving stability. Of course, some things will go back to “normal”...

Broadening our definition of worship

Church Development, Leadership

In times of Covid, we cannot engage in congregational singing, long a staple of corporate worship. So let’s think creatively. What else can we do to usher ourselves into the presence of God? How can we experience him and praise him? Nature sings I once took a group of...