Remembering My Dad
13 days ago, my Dad stepped into eternity. He’d battled pancreatic cancer for 16 months. He made it through multiple rounds of chemo, a round of experimental treatments, countless trips to his oncologist, a nine...
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Multi-Site: How to Build Volunteer Culture Across Campuses
In the past, we’ve discussed how to build both church culture and staff culture in a multi-site organization. But one key group we’ve left out of the process is our volunteers. If we really believe...
Top Ten Quotes: The Wisdom of Crowds
One of the most interesting – and by interesting I mean nerd territory – books that I’ve read over the last year is James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds. In it, he posits the idea...
Building Fast vs. Building Well
There’s a tension between building a healthy volunteer culture and the breakneck urgency of filling critical spots. Maybe you’ve experienced that if you’ve recently experienced high turnover on a team or been asked to create...
Why Smaller Churches Are Uniquely Positioned for Hospitality
This is the next installment in our ongoing “Small Church” series, which looks at guest services through the lens of the smaller congregation: those with 150 or fewer people in attendance each week. See the...
Parking Team Basics
You just landed on an every-once-in-a-while series called Primer Posts, a curated collection of my favorite articles and books on one particular topic. These are the resources I usually point to when people ask about getting started...
2023 Summer Reading List: Mine
Nerd week continues! In the last post, I shared ten titles (plus a bonus) that I hope you’ll consider for your summer reading. Today I’m sharing what I’m going to attempt to tackle between Memorial...
2023 Summer Reading List: Yours
Forget what Christmas crooner Andy Williams says: for book nerds, this is the most wonderful time of the year. When I come across a post of what everyone will be reading at the beach, I...
Danny Recommends: TrueVine Pre-Packaged Communion / Concordia Supply
Every so often we dip our toes into a series called Danny Recommends:, posts that tip you off to the stuff that I…you know. The recommendations might be products for use in your ministry, resources that will...
7 Ways You’re Underutilizing Your Parking Team
Those of us in ChurchWorld know that there are some segments of ChurchPeople who are just too easy to stereotype: pastors are going to preach past their time limit and inflate attendance numbers. Sweet little...
