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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“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 …
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, …
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 …
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. Yet the ministries that I have observed to be MOST successful make changes swiftly and …
Sketching out ideas and concepts has helped me solidify abstract ideas and thoughts. In fact “Draft,” a simple sketching tool, is my favorite iPad app. I found a great article on the benefits of sketching. Here’s a few of the best quotes: “Sketching provides a unique space that can help you think differently, generate a …
God seems to raise up ministry leaders to ENABLE more people to participate in his plans. So often the stories of Moses, David, Peter and Paul focus on what they did; recently I have been more interested in what others were ABLE to do because of them. This paradigm seems to be coming back into …
“A (ministry) leader needs to hear from God and develop other leaders”–Dave Kraft I discovered this video on the Church Planting for the Rest of Us blog. Dave Kraft recently published Leaders Who Last, and will be touring the country doing seminars related to the ideas of the book. He shares what is needed for …
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