A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single purchase. Cue “The Big Spend” and churches across Canada championing local businesses on July 25th. The big idea came from one of our PAOC credential holders, Tim Schindel.

Before COVID, churches were safely hidden behind a mask of traditionalism and irrelevance. Masks allowed too many dreams to be squashed, passions to be quenched, and visions to be shutdown. Now, all masks, except ones for AHS, are off.

Using the past as a springboard into the future.

The spirit of religion is the number one thing blocking any progression of the church. The spirit of religion sinks its teeth into traditions and idolizes methods to create a god of ideology that can seem impossible to topple.

Root issues behind failure in Christian Ministry.

The average person has no idea what next steps to take to connect into this congregation and what the destination (being a part of the church) might look like. It’s up to us as leaders to create clear and obvious next steps for them.

I’ve asked a similar question to pastors who have seen their ministries and churches grow over the years … “what is one reason you can think of as to why your ministry grew?” Their answer shocked me.

If you want to your organization to grow, you have to grow as a leader. The kicker is that the law of the lid eventually applies to every leader. Every leader will become the lid to their own organization.

We don’t want to create any barriers for people to come to Jesus Christ and we want to do our best to be a church that is in the community and for the community.

The task of gearing up onsite services while maintaining high quality online experiences, in a season when most leaders and churches gear down, makes the summer of 2020 one of the most stress-filled times of the century for pastors.

What better way to spend the rare, rainy summer day than with one of the following five page turners. Read at the risk of a greater love for God and neighbour.

The question becomes, “if I have to leave forever in 4 weeks, who in this church/ministry will take over the leadership?” Whether you know the answer to that or not, here are 9 ways you can begin to develop leaders in your church starting today.

The church has an amazing opportunity to be a voice of hope in the midst despair. A voice of peace in the midst of chaos. A voice of credible faith in the midst of fear. However, you need to get outside of your church and actually speak to your city.

It’s never fun to realize that there were things that you thought were working, actually weren’t working. The recent pandemic exposed weaknesses and brought out realizations amongst churches and church leaders all over the world.

A personal challenge coming from COVID 19 and the racism issue.

Phase Four of the COVID-19 crisis is bringing extreme pressure to bear on Pastors. What do I do when I don't know what to do?