Christmas is coming. And with it, the annual Staff Christmas Party. It’s a celebration with friends and colleagues. We laugh, feast, remember, have fun, and look forward together. But there’s the pressure. What if it isn’t fun? Or inspiring? How do you know if you’ve thought of everything to make your Staff Christmas Party a […]
9 Things You Need to Know About Leading a Ministry Team Meeting
You can lead a ministry team meeting at church that people love to come to. You scoff? You doubt that people would ever love a board meeting or a committee meeting? Granted, we’re not usually eager meeting-goers. Meetings at church, like in the business world, have a bad reputation. They can be the archetypal waste of […]
How to Do Easy, Effective Leadership Development in your Church
Ever felt the weight of your ministry responsibilities was a little more than you expected? Have you wished for more leaders around you to share the responsibilities? I have. I memorized Galatians 6:9 to encourage myself not to become weary in doing good. I prayed Matthew 9:38 asking Him to send more workers in the harvest field. […]
How to Scale Up Excellence and See Your Church Grow
You Can Make More and Better Happen Two Stanford professors have much to say to church leaders about how to get from here to there. Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao are leadership thinkers and professors at Stanford University who have wrestled with the process of spreading excellence across organizations. Their book, Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to […]
7 Steps to the Church of your Dreams
Do you have pipe dreams for your church? Visions of what you would like to see, but maybe won’t. My pipe dream would be to see our church so well organized that everyone knows exactly what to do. Our greeters would welcome people just right every time. The nursery workers would have mad baby skills. The […]
The Cure for Crazy Busy
Does your to-do list feel long and heavy this week? How long has it been since you took your foot off the gas? Join the club. John Ortberg’s book Soul Keeping: Caring for the Most Important Part of You crossed my path last week and I decided to download it and take a quick look at it […]