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How to Care for All Guests (When New Guests Keep Coming)

This is the next installment in our ongoing “Large Church” series, which looks at guest services through the lens of the larger congregation: those with an average attendance of 800 or more. While any church...

What Does Living on Mission Smell Like?

Before you read the following post, take note that the original publication date was April 1. That’s April Fools’ Day, for the pranksters among us. Carry on. For almost two decades, we’ve closed every worship...

The Imagineering Story: See What They May Not See

This is the final post a five part series based on lessons learned from The Imagineering Story: The Official Biography of Walt Disney Imagineering by Leslie Iwerks. We’re covering five things that those of us...

The Imagineering Story: Help Them to See Strategically

This is the fourth of a five part series based on lessons learned from The Imagineering Story: The Official Biography of Walt Disney Imagineering by Leslie Iwerks. We’re covering five things that those of us...

The Imagineering Story: See Their Wants (But Know Their Needs)

This is the third of a five part series based on lessons learned from The Imagineering Story: The Official Biography of Walt Disney Imagineering by Leslie Iwerks. We’re covering five things that those of us...

The Imagineering Story: See it from Their Side

This is the second of a five part series based on lessons learned from The Imagineering Story: The Official Biography of Walt Disney Imagineering by Leslie Iwerks. We’re covering five things that those of us...

The Imagineering Story: See What’s Not There

This is the first of a five part series based on lessons learned from The Imagineering Story: The Official Biography of Walt Disney Imagineering by Leslie Iwerks. We’re covering five things that those of us...

Top Ten Quotes: The Imagineering Story

I’ve had Leslie Iwerks’ The Imagineering Story: The Official Biography of Walt Disney Imagineering on my “to read” shelf for way too long. I say that, because the documentary that inspired the book is one...

Your “Bad Sunday” Might Be Their Only Sunday.

Many moons ago we had a campus that was – as the kids say – on the struggle bus (do the kids actually say that? Discuss.). It seemed that just about anytime I dropped by...

What You Must Know as Your Church Moves from Portable to Permanent (part five)

We’re wrapping up a series on taking a congregation from a portable location to a permanent one. Don’t jump in mid-stream: get started here. You made it. Not only to the end of this mini-series...