Flashback Friday: Turning Jeers Into Cheers
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! By now you’ve no doubt read the story of Berhard Brandner, the Frontier Airlines...
Category: First Impressions
Last Call For Confab
UPDATE: the 2015 spring Confab is now full. If you’d like to be the first to know about upcoming Confab dates, let me know. A couple of months ago I unveiled the 2015 Connections Confab,...
Traffic Stops & Big Hearted Cops
This is normally the type of fodder I’d save for Thursday Three For All, but this is too good not to share r’at now. The Lowell, Michigan police department decided to throw a wrench into their typical...
Why a Confab?
UPDATE: the 2015 spring Confab is now full. If you’d like to be the first to know about upcoming Confab dates, let me know. Last week I announced the 2015 Connections Confab – a small...
Announcing the Connections Confab
UPDATE: the 2015 spring Confab is now full. If you’d like to be the first to know about upcoming Confab dates, let me know. Connections Confab 2015 is coming. Should you apply? Read on… Imagine an...
Flashback Friday: Making the Most of Every Opportunity
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! …the end goal of a weekend First Impressions team ought to beconnecting people...
Is Your Church Ready for Mr. Freeze?
Nope, not the current atmospheric stuff we’re dealing with – the Polar Vortex that’s turning your greeting team into a bunch of volunteersicles. (Although, if you want to talk about how to keep ’em warm, may...
Are You Provoking Your Volunteers to Wrath?
Any time I want to feel really lousy about my [husband skills / parenting skills / boss skills], I flip over to Ephesians 5 & 6. In true Pauline fashion, the apostle uses those two...
See Them First
“They’ll see you before you see them.” That’s what a friend of mine said a few months back in a meeting we were both attending, and I’ve never forgotten it. “We say that a smile goes...
Nobody Cares About Your Rules
I have a theory about Church People. I’m allowed to have theories about Church People, because I myself am a Church Person. Born and bred. All my life plus nine months. Went straight from the hospital...
