Risk management is a topic that should be addressed at a minimum annually by your church. Risk is defined as an uncertain event that may have positive or negative consequences. A risk management plan identifies risks and action steps for dealing with those risks. There are basically four actions for handling risk: Avoid the risk completely. Transfer…
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Missions Partnerships are one of the best vehicles a church can use to engage fully in missions. A healthy partnership will contain five elements, and the third element is Doing Our Share. Even though financial support is the first thing many people’s mind jumps to when they consider missions partnership, we’ve intentionally placed it third…
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Perhaps, like me, many of you were taught early in ministry that the way to multiply something is to divide it in half. If you want to multiply a small group, develop another leader and divide the group into two groups. If you want to multiply your youth group, find another leader and divide the…
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You’re out on vacation and it’s dinner time. You don’t want to go to a chain restaurant, but you also don’t know anyone to tell you where they’d recommend, so what do you do? Most likely, you’ll either ask a local or pull out your phone and do a search of restaurants near you –…
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At the RMD District Conference, April 25 – 28, in Nampa, ID, the RMD Ministry Grant was explained and disbursed. This grant was approved by the Dexcom in March to come alongside our churches in the belief that inflation will affect our churches in the RMD in much more potentially devastating way than Covid has.…
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If you are a newly elected church treasurer or already performing the role for your church, I encourage you to check out the resources available for treasurers on the RMD website. Access rmdcma.com and log into the member’s page. Scroll to the Administration section and note the column called treasurer’s resources. Here you will find several very helpful sources of…
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The RMD team strives to provide effective communication to keep churches well informed of District and C&MA events, International Worker updates, and prayer needs. In addition, our newsletter and website provide helpful resources and information to aid you in your ministry. Our regular email communications include a monthly newsletter sent on the first Tuesday of…
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Missions Partnerships are one of the best vehicles a church can use to engage fully in missions. A healthy partnership will contain five elements, and the second element is Strategic Prayer. Any International Worker (IW) will tell you that prayer is their most coveted component of partnership. Sometimes on the church side of the partnership…
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At the last service I shared the vision I believe the Lord has given me for the next few years of leadership in the role as District Superintendent. We looked at the RMD continuing to grow forward being: Mission Focused (clear on the Gospel of Jesus, giving people opportunity to respond to Him and not…
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Cybersecurity is the practice of protecting systems, networks, and programs from digital attacks. These cyberattacks are normally aimed at accessing, changing, or destroying sensitive information; extorting money from users; or interrupting normal processes and procedures. Churches may believe they are too small to be at risk of a cyberattack or that they don’t have data a…
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