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, potential [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Band of Brothers (and Sisters)
Posted in Motivation on October 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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.
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 [...]
The Day Jobs of Church Volunteers
Posted in Church Planting on October 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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.
FASTEST-GROWING U.S. CHURCHES
Posted in Church Growth on October 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Coaching vs. Supervising
Posted in Coaching on October 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
How important are assessment centers?
Posted in Uncategorized on October 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Planters Retreat – Devotional Time
Posted in Church Planter on October 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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 video [...]
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:
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 & [...]
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