Almost every ministry has a vision or goal statement. The ones that help me the most not only captivate and inspire but also make it easy to understand what I can do to see it realized. If you are struggling to refine your vision statement here are 5 tests that will certainly help. These are …
“Stop Sketching, Start Building”–Dennis Crowley, Foursquare Founder from a recent Techcrunch post There are some great pieces of wisdom related to getting an idea implemented. Moving out of the kitchen and into an office: Dennis noted that once he started taking his idea more seriously and working at an office on it instead of his …
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How many people on Facebook and Twitter would have to see an invitation to participate in a cause-driven campaign in order to get just 10 people to take action? I highly recommend Tom Webster’s blog for data-driven insights on social media. Recently he attempted to get his friends and followers online to help out a …
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“They only have 1 full-time equivalent staff member (that includes all staff, not just ministry staff) for every 150 people in attendance. Only about 35% of their budget is spent on staff expenses.”–from a post by Tony Morgan on how to expand the number of volunteers in your church or ministry. Those seeking to start …
Everyone is on Facebook, but most people do not like pages with religious/spiritual content. This is a slide from Dan Zarrella’s Science of Facebook Marketing presentation. His presentation was based on data collected from Facebook users. It’s interesting to me that Religious Organizations and Pets are significantly more disliked than most other pages. This slide …
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 awkward, and never return the following year. For three years I attempted to solve this …
Socially “Hot” and “Cold” Group Dynamics in College Ministry Read More »
The ministry leaders that can become comfortable working modularly will see tremendous fruit and exponential opportunities to lead. Chris Brogan recently commented on this reality in his post The Future of Work: “Many of us will start using “project” as the unit of measurement of work. Meaning, a job won’t be a job any more, …
“All the people I’m trying to reach are on Facebook.”–from a recent NY Times post on youth usage of social media. Here’s three questions to ask yourself and those in your ministry leadership to diagnose how closely you are aligned to the social media usage patterns of your audience: What kind of content does the …
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I’m continued to be encouraged to sketch more often. An article by Jared Spool shared six different ways sketches are used amongst teams. I thought they represented six compelling reasons to start integrating sketching into a meeting. 1–To Leverage the Visual 2–To Communicate an Idea 3–To Record What We are Seeing and Hearing 4–To Work …
Faith appropriates God’s abundance and refines our character. I moved from California to Ohio this summer, then Ohio to Indiana this Winter as I step into my role as Director of New Media for Keynote, a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ. So far it’s been our family’s largest faith step, and God has taught …
