Media Outreach

Shattering the “church culture”

Church culture is a funny thing. There’s this unspoken feeling you can get in many churches in the US when you walk into their offices. I have become keenly aware of it after working with churches from all over the country. One of my coworkers and I joke about starting a company called “Youth Pastor [...]

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Top 5 Posts from March- 2012

And just in case you missed some of our posts from March…here are the top 5 most visited. 10 Tips for Having a Great Church Blog Audio and Video Recording in Worship Services- Part 1 Creating a Winning Team from Dysfunctional Members How to Get Guests to Give you Their Information Social Media Demographics

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Creativity: Connecting the Dots

I love creativity. I love being creative and sharing ideas with other creative minds. I always learn so much when I watch creative types at work. Every organization needs creative types in order to gain new perspectives and come up with better ways to do everyday tasks. Whether you’re a church, a non-profit or a [...]

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Creating a Winning Team from Dysfunctional Members

We all want to be part of a winning team. We’ve all heard the saying, “there’s no ‘I’ in team.”  But how do you get past the surface level team building stuff and move on to real team building that make really makes a difference not just for the individuals involved but for the entire [...]

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Assessing Your Staff’s Strengths

I’m friends with quite a few people who are on staff at my church, so I get to hear about what’s going on and what the difficult areas of their jobs are and such. One recurring issue that seems to be a problem in our church is the lack of volunteers. It’s hard finding people [...]

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Volunteer Recruiting in Your Church- The Never-ending Job

I live with one of my church’s staff members. She’s the Early Childhood Specialist and is constantly looking for volunteers to help on Sunday mornings. Recruiting for volunteer positions is a tough job. I don’t envy it, but she’s great at it. We’ve been discussing ways to broaden her volunteer base and I figured she [...]

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“Change, Change, Change” – Communicating Change to Your Church

There are lots of different reactions people have to change.  While I’d like to re-write the lyrics to Aretha Franklin’s “Chain of Fools,” and burst out in song…”Change, Change, Change….,” I’ll spare your ears.. My church has recently gone through a lot of change within our young adults’ class. Personally, I enjoy change because things [...]

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Stop Trying to Make Everyone Happy

This past week I was able to participate in the Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit.  I was very excited to hear Seth Godin, the best-selling author, blogger, and all around marketing guru. One of the phrases he mentioned is still resonating loudly in my mind.  The notion that our culture often times defaults to “create [...]

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Life in the Ministry – It’s Complicated

Working in the ministry is one of the most difficult professions. Not only are pastors handling the weight of leading a group of people closer to their Creator, they are bearing the emotional burdens of church members as well.  These are not all the strains that cause over 50% of pastors to want to leave [...]

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Tweets on Leadership

Earlier this week, a few coworkers put on their thinking caps to come up with some new leadership tweets we could use.  This is the result of some of their ingenuity.  We hope you enjoy and get a laugh out of some of them. Speak first, listen second. Finish your co-workers sentences to influence their [...]

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