If you cannot visualize how your ministry is supposed to look like how can you boldly ask God for big things that will lead to significant transformation? The stock answer to the question “What would it look like for God to powerfully show up in our ministry?” is “more people and the current people doing …
Do You Know What Your Ministry Is Supposed to Look Like? Read More »
Greater effectiveness: “Technology is fundamentally about doing more with less. Once you realize that, it’s hard to think about doing anything else.”–Peter Thiel, Paypal Founder and first investor in Facebook The majority of arguments I hear against integrating technology deeper into a ministry relate to the additional time and energy it will require, and how …
Technology Used Well In Ministry Always Results In… Read More »
Providing your ministry leaders access to people and experiences leads to exploration and discovery of gifts, strengths and weaknesses that will lead to significant growth. I have been a subscriber of Rdio for three months now. It’s similar to Netflix but for music; for $9.99 a month I can access their seemingly unlimited supply of …
The Blogference is a global online conference for ministry leaders. I started hosting the conference five years ago to help connect our Campus Crusade staff and encourage more discussion and thought about ministry philosophy. From August 15-18th there will be a variety of ministry leaders starting conversations about evangelism, leadership, and social media. This year …
“Only 3% to 7.5% of Fans View Posts From A Facebook”–source It’s so tempting to use every tool that Facebook creates to enhance your ministry communications. However creating a Facebook Page for your personal ministry is not strategic according to recent data released. A better alternative is to distribute ministry content on your profile page, …
Campus Crusade Staff: You Still Do Not Need a Facebook Page for Your Personal Ministry Read More »
“Be Decisive” I found this short video on The Best Advice for a New CEO captured my experience as a new leader regarding decision making. As a new leader I was so fearful of making mistakes, yet in order to grow I needed to make significant decisions and experience the consequences. What I found was …
So far social media applications have only begun to leverage the multi-screen reality that has emerged. The TV, desktop, laptop, mobile phone, iPod, and iPad/tablet have different sized screens and different sized capacities. Rather than force an application into all these devices in the same manner, many applications are starting to see the various devices …
Charismatic, good-looking, selfish, and pretentious people plague ministries by their unaligned influence and multiplying others who seek to derail the mission, vision and values. Bentley from the Bachelorette deceived Ashley and nearly caused my wife (and me) to attack the screen on several occasions. His interactions reminded me of many people I have come across …
Does Your Ministry Have a Bentley from the Bachelorette? Read More »
“Data usage for the top 1 percent (99th percentile) has grown their usage by an astonishing 155 percent from 1.8GB in Q1 2010 to over 4.6GB in Q1 2011.”–source This chart shows the effective cost per MB for smartphone users:
“The share of Americans younger than 24 neither at work nor in school has steadily increased since 2007.”–source Interpretations of this kind of data often leans toward the negative–focusing on the idleness, lack of a steady income, or not gaining skills to help with employment. I’m sure these things happen but I see tremendous opportunities …
