Month: May 2021

A Recruiting Shift

Every church needs volunteers. It’s no secret that in most churches, the area of ministry that requires the largest number of volunteers is in children’s ministry. Often, we recruit out of desperation. When that happens, we don’t take the time to think through the kind of people we want serving with kids. I believe that…
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How Do I Progressively Develop Leaders?

Have you had this experience? You have a church member who has a great heart, is very influential and loves to serve in the church. You think to yourself, “This is a potential leader.” Many pastors aren’t sure what to do next and default into placing someone like this in the most needed leadership role,…
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Preventing the Preventable

This past week as I was leaving the house to run some errands, I rounded a corner one block from our house and thought, “Did I close the garage door?”  While it was tempting to assume that I did and just keep driving, I just couldn’t shake the thought of my tools sitting there with an…
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Why?

Over the course of a lifetime, the one word question, “Why?” gets asked many, many, many times. Often times it is in the context of heartache, pain, sorrow or some deep troubling situation.   On a few occasions it might be said proactively, in the context of an entity figuring out, for instance, “Why do we…
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