Top Ten Quotes: The Culture Code
One of the most surprisingly-good books I read this year was The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups. Like many of my favorite authors, Daniel Coyle has the ability to weave deep research...
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2024 Guest Services Weekenders: Reserve Your Spot!
Sometimes it helps to break out of your context and get into another one…to capture some “we can do that!” moments by observing other teams doing it. That’s the gist of our Guest Services Weekenders:...
Small Church Series: Get FREE Training for Your Church!
For the last year, we’ve been working our way through a monthly series focused on guest services in the smaller church: those with 150 or fewer people in attendance each week. That series will continue...
Q&A: Should a Guest Services Team and Usher Team Co-Exist?
Q: After reading through several of your posts, I noticed that your Guest Services team is responsible for greeting in the auditorium and even seating guests. Is there any overlap with your ushers, or do...
Danny Recommends: Bible Reading Plan Generator
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...
Uncomfortably Uncertain
Leaders don’t need to have all of the answers. We should be sure of the vision, confident of the values, and fixed on the end goal. But in the questions and speed bumps and hiccups...
God, Give Us the Grace to be Grateful.
This post originally appeared in 2021. It’s Thanksgiving Day in the United States, and the purpose of Thanksgiving is to…well…give thanks. In your family or friend group, perhaps you have different ways of doing that:...
Don’t Let Your Christmas Flip Be a Flop.
My friend Wes Gardner recently tipped me off to a great article by The Points Guy: “Up all night: How Disney transforms the Magic Kingdom from Halloween to holiday overnight.” I’ve long been fascinated by...
Guest Post: The “Lazy River Effect” on Your Church’s Engagement Pathway
Greg Curtis is the Central Director of Assimilation and Guest Services at Eastside Christian Church, a multi-site church based in Anaheim, California. I’ve counted Greg as a friend for years, and there is no one...
The Full List of Our 2024 Training Opportunities
Buckle up, kids: it’s time to peer into the new year. For those of you on a calendar-year budgeting cycle, you’re probably obsessing over spreadsheets, forecasting, and big plans right about now. (Or you’re like...
