The Greatest Test of Your Ministry
I had a couple of great student pastors growing up. “Bob” (I’ll call him that, because that’s his real name) was runnin’ the show during my early high school years. He was infamous for his...
Category: Staff Stuff
Flashback Friday: Not Their Niche
Every Friday we dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! What happens when a team member (be it paid staff, volunteer, etc.)...
How to Defuse a Volunteer
Maybe it’s happened to you: you’re running through a regular weekend service, minding your own beeswax, and things get tense. I’m talking you-could-cut-it-with-a-knife tense. Somebody’s-about-to-blow tense. Shawty-fire-burning-on-the-dance-floor tense. Something doesn’t go as planned, systems begin...
The Problem With Outside The Lines
The road in front of our neighborhood has been undergoing a facelift lately. They scraped it, then paved it, then paved it again. Then set up cones. Then more pavement. Then…you get the picture. It’s...
Stories vs. Statistics
Last week was vacation week for the Franks family. And like all good vacations, I had time to catch up on a backlog of reading (I also watched Dawn of the Prequel to the Sequel of...
Culture Shock: Watch Your Language
I’m currently kicking around Southeast Asia, spending some time with two of our teams who are engaging with locals. If you missed yesterday’s post you can catch up here. Watch your language. Our mamas teach us...
Ten Ways to Keep it Clean
I work in a church office. And if you’ve ever worked in a church office, you know that cleanliness is not always next godliness. Not to be too judgmental, but there are days when “looks...
Tips for Remote Warriors
As I type, a portion of our church offices (including my own) are getting a quick paint job. Our offices are mostly populated by guys in their 20’s to 40’s, so the walls are not what...
Five Ways to (Hopefully) Keep People from Falling Through the Cracks
I heard it again last weekend: another story from one of our guests who had contacted someone about something, and that someone never got back with them. Nor did the next someone. Or the next....
Replicate.
You’re looking at a picture of this morning’s kickoff of the 2014 Connections Cohort. To give some context, last year we started a monthly meeting of anyone who’s paid to to Connections Ministry at the Summit:...
