How to Get Past the Well-Oiled Machine
This is the next installment in our ongoing “Large Church” series, which looks at guest services through the lens of the larger congregation: those with an average attendance of 800 or more. See the entire...
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Q&A: Why Don’t You Have a Coffee Bar?
Q: It doesn’t appear that The Summit serves coffee or donuts on Sunday mornings. What’s the theory behind that? [from a recent Confab session] A: It’s true that we zigged when a lot of churches...
Multi-Site: How Many Staff Should You Hire for a New Campus?
Q: Can you talk about what staff roles we should launch with at a new campus? Does this change when you go from portable to permanent location? [Question submitted in a recent Confab gathering] A:...
If We Don’t Equip Them, Someone Else Will.
The #1 rule of leaders-sitting-around-a-table-drinking-coffee is that as some point, you have to talk about volunteers: how few you have, how you don’t have the right ones, or how that one guy named Bill is...
Danny Recommends: Folding Hand Truck
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...
Q&A: Moving from Consumer to Participant?
Q: A ministry like Guest Services seems to enable a consumer culture within our church. How can we move people from consumer to participant? [From a recent One-Day Workshop] A: Let’s be clear: there’s nothing...
Join me on My Church Staff!
Six months ago I told you about My Church Staff, a new initiative from Dr. Thom Rainer and the Church Answers team. My Church Staff is a subscription-based model that allows any leader to receive...
Top Ten Quotes: How to Know a Person
There are books meant to be listened to, and there are books meant to be savored. David Brooks’ How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen falls into...
7 Ways Larger Churches Struggle with Hospitality
We’re continuing our “Large Church” series, which looks at guest services through the lens of the larger congregation: those with 800 or more people in attendance each week. You can see the first post in...
Q&A: What Would You Change?
Q: Go back to your early days in your role. If you could easily “reset” from ground zero, would everything still look the same when you built it back, or what would change in regards...
