Research often leads the charge when faced with something new. But faith and humility give a new ministry life, direction, and a future. I’m advocating calculating and costly faith steps here, not blind/whimsical/pseudo-spiritual decisions. Your friends will be impressed if you can quote all the statistics related to your ministry start-up as well as some …
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“Often when finances get tight in a church the first thing cut is the evangelism and advertising budget.”–Rick Warren, from his ministry toolbox As someone who raises money PRIMARILY for evangelism I had no idea this trend existed. Since many of my regular readers are Campus Crusade staff I sensed this would encourage and depress …
Have you ever used a ministry resource site that ended up making you feel less resourced than when you started? I’m excited for Desiring God’s new site that thought first about the person coming to the site, not just about blasting out their content with new tools. The site seeks to make the resources “more …
Have you dreamt of planting a church in a large city? I certainly have. I have loved starting ministries within Campus Crusade but the prospect of being a part of God’s redemptive plan through an urban church plant sounds sweet. Leonce Crump the church planter in the video shares some key phrases that seem to …
If you are passionate about leading change then you constantly find yourself engaging people different than yourself. I often lead change poorly when I assume the person I’m seeking to persuade feels and believes the same things I do. When I’ve sought to understand and discern their differences and shared my vision for change in …
Foursquare, Gowalla, MyTown, Loopt? At least in Campus Crusade Twitter has barely gained traction among middle and late adopters. Signing up for something new that heavily depends on owning an iPhone or Droid is very rare. However I see TONS of potential to use location based applications in ministry. Especially because places are one of …
Sharing Leadership to Maximize Talent (via @kencochrum) “Shared leadership involves maximizing all of the human resources in an organization by empowering individuals and giving them an opportunity to take leadership positions in their areas of expertise.” 8 Ways to Make a Disciple (via @chrisbrogan) “Show them the infrastructure behind the scenes” 9 Tips I Wish …
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“We should not dictate to our audience which device we want our audience to lose.”—Pioneers of Social Gaming I captured this video at South by Southwest Interactive during the Pioneers of Social Gaming seminar. Especially after reading through the comments on the Changing Evangelism post I wanted to share something related to the idea of …
once again @destinoeric has done some serious ninja web research and shared a blog/research report that i had never heard of… “Only 38% feel that the skills which they are encouraged to perform are the next best step for students on their campuses.”–here “We are unskilled in using media, but there is little corresponding interest …
Distinguishing future leaders from the general mass of people challenges nearly every ministry starter. The quicker you can identify, empower, and entrust leadership tasks over to someone besides yourself the better (Tony Steward’s insightful post on releasing expired leaders is worth checking out). Campus Crusade since it’s inception has done a tremendous job of developing …
