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Archive for October, 2007

Band of Brothers (and Sisters)

Posted in Motivation on October 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Today I’m reflecting on my long journey in the ministry (32 years since my first gig as an Assistant pastor) and I’m struck with one thought. How lonely and sorrowful a trail it would have been without “a little help from my friends”! I’m writing today to an audience of church planters and missionaries, [...]

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Preaching Advice

Posted in Preaching on October 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »

My worship leader is getting ready to preach his first sermon, so I put together a few of my thoughts to guide him. I thought it would be cool if a few others would chime in with their thoughts and advice for a rookie preacher.

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Momentum

Posted in Church Planting on October 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »

My wife and I got married pretty young. I was 22 and she was 21 and we had just graduated from college two weeks prior. But if there was one thing we could change it would be that we would have gotten married sooner.
Although we were young, we dated for 3 1/2 years and had [...]

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The Day Jobs of Church Volunteers

Posted in Church Planting on October 12, 2007 | No Comments »

Grace Point Church in Las Vegas (Devin Hudson, pastor), put together this video to show the Monday-Friday jobs of those who make the church happen on Sunday and throughout the week. A great idea for community building, recruitment, and celebration.

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FASTEST-GROWING U.S. CHURCHES

Posted in Church Growth on October 12, 2007 | No Comments »

2007 Outreach magazine report: Corrected October 8, 2007
Here are the top 40:

Iglesia Cristiana Segadores de Vida (Hollywood, FL) :: Ruddy Gracia
Community of Faith (Cypress, TX) :: Mark Shook
Valley Bible Fellowship (Bakersfield, CA) :: Ron Vietti
Community Christian Church (Naperville, IL) :: Dave Ferguson
The Richmond Outreach Center (Richmond, VA) :: Geronimo Aguilar
New Life Church (Conway, AR) :: [...]

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Coaching vs. Supervising

Posted in Coaching on October 11, 2007 | No Comments »

by CoachNet Partner, Jeannette Slater
Most of us have grown up in a world where we are either a supervisor or we are being supervised. Think about it…our parents supervised us, our teachers in school supervised us, our bosses supervised us. Perhaps we in turn have become the parent, teacher or boss, thus stepping into the [...]

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How important are assessment centers?

Posted in Uncategorized on October 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »


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Planters Retreat - Devotional Time

Posted in Church Planter on October 9, 2007 | No Comments »

Steve Treichler taught us on Revelations 4:1-5:14… We saw the how the stage was set in chapter four, the problem in was seen from 5:1-5:5 and the solution was presented through the end of the passage. Wow – the awesome Sovereignty of God displayed. Man, I love Jesus! He ended the presentation with this [...]

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Planters Retreat - Team Building Exercise

Posted in Church Planter on October 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Brian Stevens broke us into three groups and gave us 45 minutes (post-production efficiency caused our team to run a little over) to create a video about the Church based on different T.V. shows or Films.  Our group was given Pirates of the Caribbean.  Here goes:

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Church Planters Retreat

Posted in Church Planter, Motivation on October 6, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Every year we do our planters and their wives up. We have an awesome retreat at Cedar Valley Resort, I love this place.
 
This year our agenda looks like this: ‘07 Agenda
This is one of my high points each year. I love hanging out and learning from these unusually gifted planters:

Rich & Cyndi Bontrager
Wally [...]

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