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A few weeks back we rolled out our 2024 One-Day Workshops schedule. From Missouri to Alabama and Kansas to South Carolina, folks from all over have saved their spot for one (or more) Workshops. But...

How Does a Hospitable Culture Apply to the Stage?

We’re in an ongoing series called Hospitable Culture. The big question is this: What if hospitality isn’t something we do, it’s simply who we are? In other words, what if we could bump hospitality beyond...

Routine vs. Remarkable.

It happened on a Sunday morning a few weeks back. We were baptizing several people in our weekend services, and one of the baptismal candidates had invited friends and family to celebrate with him. One...

Join me at the Connect Conference!

My friends over at Connect Ministries love the local church, and they love local church leaders. For the past 15 years they’ve partnered with churches across America to bring the day camp experience to their...

Volunteer Culture: How to Lead a Lifer

This is the last of a four-part series on the types of people we find on our volunteer teams. Missed the first part? Get started here. Defining the Lifer In theĀ first post of this series,...

2024 Summer Reading List: Mine

Ah, summer: the time for intense humidity, biting mosquitos, terrible sunburn, and intentional reading. If you – like me – believe that one of those things are not like the other, then read on. We’ll...

2024 Summer Reading List: Yours

As far as national holidays go, some people love Thanksgiving. Others, Christmas. There’s that one weirdo in your HOA who is Arbor Day all the way. But for my holiday affections, nothing quite measures up...

Multi-Site EPODs: Defining the Don’ts

We continue a miniseries based on this long-ago post titled Multi-Site: You Need an EPOD. An EPOD is one of the tried-and-true tools in our multi-site toolbox, and keeps us on the literal same page....

Announcing the 2024 One-Day Workshops

Our One-Day Workshops are back! Since 2016, we’ve taken over 600 church leaders through a day-long deep dive on on particular topic. After a brief hiatus in 2023, they’re back with a brand-new bonus option....

Top Ten Quotes: The Multiplication Effect

Mac Lake is a leader among leaders. Having worked as a church planter, a megachurch staff member, and a founder of a church planting network, he knows a thing or two about developing others and...