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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...

Thursday Three For All

It’s Thursday, kiddies: the day when I roll out a few things I’ve been reading over the past week. Three of ‘em, to be exact. Enjoy. (Remember: click on the bold print to read the entire...

Interview Your Volunteers

On this morning’s commute, I was tuned in to a station where the hosts were talking about one question in Bed Bath & Beyond’s hiring process: “If you were a breakfast cereal, what kind would you be, and...

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...

Want to Connect? Serve!

Fewer things bring me more joy than to hear a volunteer talk about the community they’ve found by serving. This weekend our media team highlighted the story of Eileen, a friend I’ve known since first...

Flashback Friday: So Logical, It’s Scary

Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you!   My second born Austin has always been the sweetly-oblivious, doesn’t-always-mean-to-be-funny one in...

Thursday Three For All

It’s Thursday, kiddies: the day when I roll out a few things I’ve been reading over the past week. Three of ‘em, to be exact. Enjoy. (Remember: click on the bold print to read the entire...

Rules or Tools?

Way back in my first few weeks at the Summit – during the season where all of us were trying to figure out what this new role looked like – my lead pastor made the...

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...