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My friends over at Connect Ministries love the local church, and they love local church leaders. For the past 15 years they’ve partnered with churches across America to bring the day camp experience to their...
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Volunteer Culture: How to Lead a Lifer
This is the last of a four-part series on the types of people we find on our volunteer teams. Missed the first part? Get started here. Defining the Lifer In the first post of this series,...
2024 Summer Reading List: Mine
Ah, summer: the time for intense humidity, biting mosquitos, terrible sunburn, and intentional reading. If you – like me – believe that one of those things are not like the other, then read on. We’ll...
2024 Summer Reading List: Yours
As far as national holidays go, some people love Thanksgiving. Others, Christmas. There’s that one weirdo in your HOA who is Arbor Day all the way. But for my holiday affections, nothing quite measures up...
Multi-Site EPODs: Defining the Don’ts
We continue a miniseries based on this long-ago post titled Multi-Site: You Need an EPOD. An EPOD is one of the tried-and-true tools in our multi-site toolbox, and keeps us on the literal same page....
Announcing the 2024 One-Day Workshops
Our One-Day Workshops are back! Since 2016, we’ve taken over 600 church leaders through a day-long deep dive on on particular topic. After a brief hiatus in 2023, they’re back with a brand-new bonus option....
Top Ten Quotes: The Multiplication Effect
Mac Lake is a leader among leaders. Having worked as a church planter, a megachurch staff member, and a founder of a church planting network, he knows a thing or two about developing others and...
Q&A: How Should I Think About Curriculum for Volunteer Onboarding?
Q: I am currently working on a book to use for our volunteer onboarding process. There is so much info that I want to relay effectively, but I am having trouble deciding what information to...
How Does a Hospitable Culture Apply to Student Ministry?
We’re in an ongoing series called Hospitable Culture. The big question is this: What if hospitality isn’t something we do, it’s simply who we are? In other words, what if we could bump hospitality beyond...
Smoke Signals
Whether you lead volunteers or paid staff, whether you have one direct report or a dozen (pro tip: don’t have a dozen), it’s sometimes impossible to feel like you’re fully in the know of everything...
