Guest Post by Ronald Long
“She will need to use the bathroom every 30 minutes on the mission trip”
“Make sure he takes his medicine every four hours”
“Are you sure they won’t ever be by themselves?”
Being …
We all have that one program, event, that we are running in which at some point it was held for a purpose but over time it just is what it is. It’s that thing in which you may have inherited …
Someone in the back just screamed, “AMEN!”
Now I will be honest, I really do enjoy the big number. I love when they are up. But I have been in ministry long enough to realize that when gage success based …
Guest post by Scott Huff
Last year we began testing theme nights at our first gathering of each month. We would use these nights for several reasons but ultimately they were done to spark attendance and gain momentum heading into …
Guest post by Scott Huff
We have all heard the saying in ministry, “you can never have enough volunteers.” This is very true but the struggle is not whether or not we need them. The struggle is how do we …
One thing I always say to my team on staff and those who volunteer… “It’s my job to push.”
When it comes to leading a ministry, leading a team, leading volunteers, and leading students we are supposed to push forward. …
It’s that time of the year in which we take a good look at our ministry and begin to work through our 2019 goals… or in our church what we call OKR’s.
OKR’s = Objectives and Key Results.
In reality, …
This is our second year in which we have our small groups meet before our main service for students on Wednesday nights, on campus, from 6-7pm and then we have our service for students at 7:30pm. It’s been going so, …
The following is from the book Meet Gen Z: Understanding and Reaching the New Post-Christian World
There are some strategic times throughout the year to try something new, re-do something or get rid of something. Usually one of those times is in the fall when people are going back to school and the other great time …