Identifying and selecting new leaders is critical for long-term ministry growth. Here’s four ways to refine the process: 1. Start a google document listing the potential leaders for your ministry at the beginning of every year. I suggest dividing them … Continue reading
Spending time evaluating what sorts of processes or work can be centralized in your ministry can yield tremendous rewards. Centralization frees up leaders to expand your ministry, pursue the vision, and take significant steps of faith. It also prevents people … Continue reading
Talking about changing your ministry only works if there are structures and processes in place to facilitate those changes. The first picture to the left is from In’N’Out Burger–notice that it’s impossible for the tray to be thrown away with … Continue reading
“Far too many new leaders don’t effectively diagnose their situations and tailor their strategies accordingly. Then, because they don’t understand the situation, they make unnecessary mistakes.”–Michael Watkins from The First 90 Days Tim Casteel shared this quote in the comments … Continue reading
Eric Ries presented on The Lean Startup at SXSWI and this was one of his slides: If We Can Reduce the Time Between Pivots Here’s the definition of a pivot: “a pivot occurs when a start-up tests a new … Continue reading
College ministry bible studies are infamous for being either socially hot or cold; one group hangs out together outside of the group, welcomes new people, and grows closer as another leaves as soon as it’s over, makes new people feel … Continue reading
An increasing gap between the vision and reality signals the need to make a change in your ministry’s direction. A change in direction can be falsely understood as failure, since it’s a departure from what a leader thought would happen. … Continue reading
A healthy, mature, and growing in number group of emerging leaders is a strong indicator of a ministry’s health. But besides challenging new students to leadership positions how do you get there? From 30,000 feet this is the best way … Continue reading
Students can not only plant churches, but lead a church planting movement! I found this out on a recent trip to Manila, the Philippines. This short video is of the Melvin, Pastor of Stillwaters Church, casting vision and describing what … Continue reading
“How many people are involved in your ministry?” Have you ever seen someone stammer through this answer and give four or five different numbers? Here’s the messy answer that I often gave: “Well we have ______ that come to our … Continue reading
