Agile Ministry:
Leading isn’t safe. It requires you to step out. It requires you to take chances. It may even require you to fail before you succeed.For Christians, this means stepping out beyond what we can do in the flesh. It require (Read More)
Submitted by christiaan:
Fire and NiceMinnesota's Twin Cities are home to a feisty collection of influential churches.Walking inside Solomon's Porch in a south Minneapolis neighborhood, I receive a stack of freebies. On this sweltering summer Friday (Read More)
Agile Ministry:
Anne Jackson wrote an interesting blog post recently about lazy church staff:you want to know why some people get burned out in ministry? it’s not because they’re working too hard. it’s because they’ve set their level of expe (Read More)
Submitted by allenblair
from YouTube:
What kind of boss is Pastor Kerry? Check out this hilarious staff meeting and learn the ABC's of ministry!
Featuring Pastor Kerry, Pastor Chris, Pastor Alan, Pastor Stan, Jane and Lauren. (Read More)
Agile Ministry:
So, you have your Big Hair Audacious Goal - that goal that God have placed on your heart and that you cannot quench. The next question is: “Should I lead or should I follow?”There is a lot written on leadership. M (Read More)
Agile Ministry:
What is your cause? What is it that you want to see accomplished that is beyond your reach? Whatever it is, it is your Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG).A BHAG is something that only God can accomplish.A BHAG will require more (Read More)
Submitted by allenblair
from YouTube:
This is a short film clip used at our church to illustate that it takes many people to keep a church going, not just one "super pastor" out there doing it all. (Read More)
Agile Ministry:
Last week, I wrote a post titled “Our Church Has a Management Problem”, where I suggested that church staff are often managers rather than leaders. So, the question needs to be asked - “Can I lead others in (Read More)
Agile Ministry:
I find it amazing how many books are in print regarding leadership. This blog has (hopefully) saved you long hours of reading those books to get to the core of leadership in the church. If you are a first-time reader, welcome (Read More)
Agile Ministry:
The church needs you. The church needs you to get involved. To get involved in ways you may never have before. I’m going to do it. I’m asking you to do it as well. The church needs you to lead.The church is losing (Read More)
Agile Ministry:
Yesterday, I discussed the idea of the church having a management problem. Church staff are too busy managing to lead, leaving tired staff and volunteers with lots of tasks and little direction. I want to elaborate a little m (Read More)
Agile Ministry:
Does your church have a management problem? I think most churches do, they just don’t know it. Churches require three types of people: those willing to volunteer their time, those willing to manage those volunteering th (Read More)
Agile Ministry:
I have noticed the recent trend of using technology to reduce the loss of church membership. Somehow, we think that if we have just the right database of information about our church membership, we’ll keep them from lea (Read More)
Agile Ministry:
Tim Stevens took some great notes from the Catalyst 2008 Conference. I especially enjoyed reading about the things Andy Stanley had to say:We want our leaders to have consistency between what they say and what they do.At the (Read More)
Agile Ministry:
Anne Jackson, the author of Mad Church Disease, is giving away a free chapter of her book. Chapter 11: Processing Through Pain, deals with what happened to her when she opened up to a staff member in church:“The most pa (Read More)
Agile Ministry:
I was thinking about how I could easily explain that marketing can help or hurt a church or ministry. What I ended up with was a list of how the marketing of college football works. Hopefully through this you will see how gre (Read More)
Agile Ministry:
There are quite a few coordinator positions in a church now: volunteer coordinator, administrative coordinator, church management coordinators, event coordinators, and more. Each one is tasked with making sure that the polici (Read More)
Church Director Product Blog:
We will be taking Church Director offline for server upgrades, starting at 7:00pm CDT Sunday Sept 28th. The downtime should last no more than 30 minutes. Please contact us using the feedback link within Church Director if thi (Read More)
Agile Ministry:
So, you had to fire a volunteer - now what? Here are some final thoughts on dealing with the firing fallout to make it a success for everyone involved:Suggest that they take up to 6 months off to refresh themselves and give t (Read More)