Numbers matter.
“It’s not about the numbers. I don’t look at the numbers at all. They don’t matter.”
They do.
Now before you get all puffed up, let’s really talk about it.
Let me ask you a couple of real
At a recent mission trip meeting, my teens wrestled with whether or not our summer mission trip currently focuses on serving others (meeting needs) or on enacting justice (recognizing, understanding, and addressing systemic brokenness).
By default, most mission trips skew …
Transitions are a natural part of ministry. For you, as a minister, transitioning to a new church is something you will likely experience more than once in your life, and maybe something coming up quickly
Guest post by Ronald Long
There are 1189 chapters in the Bible. There’s absolutely no way you can teach your students all of them in the six or seven years that you might have them under your care.
So what …
When I worked at Saddleback they introduced me to a series called YOU OWN THE WEEKEND where they gave up their services to high schools where students from those high schools owned every aspect of the service. From planning, budgets, …
I love to know, listen, read, watch things in which I don’t agree with. I think it helps keep me out of a vacuum of only hearing what I agree with and helps me expand on what others who think …
Guest Post by Scott Huff
The end of the school year is quickly approaching and all of those things you planned for this school year about to be completed. But, what’s next? Summer is coming! That’s what’s next. It is …
A student recently told me, “We used to like going on the mission trip because it was relaxed. There were no rules.”
She was referring to a mission trip I inherited.
Truth be told, I’d suspected this was the case …
If your ministry setting is anything like my ministry setting, you have a lot of people telling you what they need from you and your ministry. There are so many voices speaking into how you should lead, what decisions to …
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 …