Flashback Friday: Stop Discovering Your Spiritual Gift
Maybe you grew up in a church like mine, where your pastor preached a 147 week series a couple of times a year on how to discover your spiritual gift, with an exhaustive explanation on...
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Thursday Three For All
Five Spectacular Ways to Create the Worst Customer Experience. (via @jeanniecw) I get it: they’re not customers, they’re guests. But still, how many of these are our churches guilty of? 4. Recruiting the wrong people Your employees play...
Mission Trumps Need…Every Time
We’re coming off of another incredible Easter weekend at the Summit. 18 services at seven locations, plus two worship events on Good Friday. 169 people who symbolized their faith in Jesus through the act of...
Leaders Pick Up The Trash
On Sunday morning I was walking up the sidewalk at one of our campuses when I saw our First Impressions Director coming from the other direction. He’d take a few steps, stoop down. Take a few...
You’re Not “Just a Volunteer.”
For those of us in ministry world, we hear that statement too many times. “I’m just a volunteer.” That statement can mean a lot of things: This job isn’t that big of a deal…I don’t have...
Flashback Friday: It Matters
Every Friday we dive into the Wayback Machine for a little trip down memory lane. If you haven’t seen it, it’s new to you. Not everybody is going to be on stage this weekend. Not...
Where Do I Serve? Three Areas That Should Intersect
Stephen is one of my favorite characters in all of scripture. He was one of the early servants of the early church, but it’s important to note that Stephen was a table waiter. He wasn’t...
18 Inches to a Better Guest Services Team
Giving your guests a better experience doesn’t take as much work as you think. Sometimes, all it takes is 18 inches. A foot and a half. That’s about what it takes for a volunteer to...
This Is Not Normal
Yesterday afternoon marked the launch of the eighth campus of the Summit Church. Summit Blue Ridge kicked off with two services, a huge army of volunteers, and over 600 people in attendance. As I wandered...
A Job Well Done…Is Rarely Noticed
I managed to snap this photo on the fly yesterday morning at our Brier Creek Campus. I say “managed to” because Sandy – the lady in the picture – is like a Windex Ninja. She...
