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 to develop a college ministry leadership team: Test them in the Fall Align them in …
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 his student led and planted church is doing. Melvin’s heart and the model of truly …
“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 weekly meeting, _______involved in bible studies, ______etc,” It’s crucial to quantify your ministry so that …
“Netflix as a DVD mailer was a vitamin. But Netflix as a late-fee vanquisher was an aspirin. It eliminated a pain.”–from a recent Fast Company article by Dan and Chip Heath, authors of Switch and Made to Stick. I struggled through this article because I like vitamins more than aspirin. I love preparing for the …
Vitamins or Aspirin? Present & Future Focused Leadership Read More »
“But it is equally critical to have a strategy that makes sense in the context of what is going on and execute it with purpose and pace. If you spend too much time looking over your shoulder, you will not execute well.”–Fred Wilson I feel like I could spend the next ten years on “a …
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Ministry starting and building tip: Make New People Work as Little as Possible Our family has been “the new couple” at quite a few churches since the summer and the word that comes to mind for us is TIRING. Most of these churches have been above average in their ability to welcome us; yet we …
Bootstrapping my ministry was less about doing what other big ministries were doing in the hopes of becoming like them and more about focusing on leveraging what I did have to grow to the next level (in relation to leaders–size and quality, laborers, and loot). I recently had a conversation with another ministry starter about …
Sometimes those whom you lead need very specific tasks to help them understand how to accomplish a particular role or responsibility. Those who are considering leadership need to know what specific actions they would be doing from you, because most often their assumptions differ dramatically from what’s expected. This job description from the 37Signals team, …
When seeking to lead significant change the focus has to be on what’s most required/needed by those on the field. This is an illustration of the Waterfall Model that applies to software development. It’s a great example of what NOT to do when leading change because the requirements are set before the product has been …
Thought this was great advice from the 37 Signals guys if you are part of or leading a small team: Less Money, more power Small teams can make accurate observations since they are close to the action and DO something about it quickly. You may lose some wisdom or insight that larger teams offer but …
