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Your Community Needs Christmas More Than Ever
If ever there is a year to care about your community at Christmas, 2020 is the year. The churches that are going to win Christmas this year are the churches that find a way to serve their community, offer hope and tell that story better than ever.
Don't Let The COVID Grinch Steal Christmas
Don’t let COVID be this year’s Christmas Grinch. Turn on the Christmas music, pour some eggnog and start brainstorming now for your church's and community's best Christmas ever.
46 Christmas Ideas for 2020
This Christmas, capitalize on everything you’ve learned about onsite safety and online production to create the best Christmas ever for your community. 46 engaging ideas for community connection at Christmas.
Why Church Culture Matters More Than Prayer
How often do you think about the air you breathe? It’s so pervasive that we don’t even give it a thought. Church culture is like the air; it’s all around us, shaping every moment of every Sunday and Monday to Saturday. We seldom notice it at our own risk.
Five Community Outreach Ideas Your Church Can Do This Fall
Fall is a great time for your church to engage the community. People are getting back into their routines. The church can position itself as a place of help and hope in this season. Here are 5 community outreach ideas your church can do this fall.
One Simple Switch to Avoid Ministry Burnout
There are a lot of factors that cause pastors to lose the passion for their calling. Pastors start out fired up and end up burning out. COVID hasn't helped. There is one simple switch that can keep pastors on fire for God.
Accountability the Secret Sauce of Discipleship
Unless you overlay accountability onto the micro-shift we described in Starbucks, Micro-Shifts and Discipleship, all you have is a solid lesson in a discipleship class. Our world desperately needs disciples who reflect Jesus.
Starbucks, Micro-shifts and Discipleship
There is a lot to be learned about discipleship from a micro-shift made twenty-five years ago by Starbucks.
How To Build A Community Profile
Here is how you can build a community profile to really understand who your neighbour is and how you can reach them.
Winning the Fight Against Discouragement
Leading is hard work. And at times, discouraging. In fact, if you’ve never felt discouraged you probably haven’t worked on anything worthwhile. Feeling discouraged is inevitable. Staying discouraged is avoidable.
How to Avoid Death by Meeting
Board meetings, staff meetings, budget meetings, strategy meetings, planning meetings, and meetings about meetings. Can you hear the sound of air being sucked out of the room? Why are meetings SO bad?
7 Lessons From Vitalization
Vitalization is more than getting a definition of success right. It’s doing what Jesus calls his followers to become - faithful and fruitful.
12 Qualities of Pastors Who Last
A pandemic and sociological upheaval leave pastors facing increased threats to their relationships and longevity. Some of longest serving pastors of many of the most vibrant churches in Canada, share 12 qualities of resilient leaders.
Adaptive Capacity is the New Currency of Leadership
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic is posing unprecedented challenges to church leadership across the world. How adaptive changes have responded to pandemic challenges.
Maturity = Reproduction
Imagine if 75% of your church were actively engaged in the discipling of pre-Christians and Christians? What a day that would be.