Thursday Three For All
The Art of Reading, Remembering, and Retaining More Books. (via @Buffer) Speaking of speed-reading, you’ll have to do it to this lengthy article, but there’s some good stuff here. I look at books as investments in...
Tagged: systems
Thursday Three For All
“Spy” Considerations for Easter Sunday. (via @ThomRainer) Easter’s coming. You ready? As we approach the season of Resurrection Sunday—when guests are more abundant at our churches—perhaps these questions will help you consider what guests experience at...
When Good Systems Go Bad
My adopted hometown of Durham, North Carolina is known for a lot of things: we’re the City of Medicine. We’re historically a tobacco town (because smoking and medicine go great together). We’re the home of...
Five Ways to (Hopefully) Keep People from Falling Through the Cracks
I heard it again last weekend: another story from one of our guests who had contacted someone about something, and that someone never got back with them. Nor did the next someone. Or the next....
Replicate.
You’re looking at a picture of this morning’s kickoff of the 2014 Connections Cohort. To give some context, last year we started a monthly meeting of anyone who’s paid to to Connections Ministry at the Summit:...
Thursday Three For All: Productivity Edition
Let’s ease into the 2014 edition of the ol’ blog, shall we? (Yes. We shall.) It’s a new year, and new years mean new resolutions, new resolve, new get-out-there-and-kick-your-day-in-the-face type of stuff that will cause...
What’s Your Brown M&M?
One of my favorite “details” stories revolves around Van Halen and their brown M&Ms. Disclaimer: I didn’t listen to much Van Halen as a kid. I remember when “Jump” made it big on the radio....
A Walk To Remember
Here on the ol’ blog, I talk a lot about the mechanics of hospitality: systems, structures, and staffing that takes a biblical virtue and puts it together on an institutional level. But perhaps more important...
Thursday Three For All
Six ways to maximize church stage announcements. (via @timrpeters, HT @persinger) As a part time Pastor of Announcements (shut up. It’s a thing.), I totally agree with all of these. (Except for the “5-10 minute” time...
Structuring Your First Impressions Team
Yesterday I received an email from a pastor who is trying to revamp the guest services ministry at his church. He asked the “structure” question: How do you have your team organized? Since that’s a question I...
