How Can I Help You?
How Can I Help You? Thanks for coming back! You keep coming back and that tells me what you’re finding is helping you. And that’s a very satisfying feeling for me. But are you finding something that is really helping you? Several times a week I get an email from a reader or a call…
Read MoreTrue or False: Leaders with Apprentices Leads to More Groups
What do you think? Would you answer true? Or false? Not sure? Early in my ministry I attended a small group ministry conference at Willow Creek. At that conference I learned that “healthy groups grow and birth” and every small group leader needs an apprentice so that groups can grow and birth (multiply). While at…
Read MoreBehind the Scenes: Developing a Timeline for Your Church-Wide Campaign
When you’re preparing for a church-wide campaign, developing a timeline is one of the most important early steps. I was looking at an article I wrote in 2009 about how to develop a timeline…and I realized how much has changed! It’s time to take another shot at it. Here is the way I develop a…
Read MoreBehind the Scenes: Preparing for a Church-Wide Campaign
Behind the Scenes: Preparing for a Church-Wide Campaign What do you do to prepare for a church-wide campaign? When do you start preparing? What are the first steps that lead in the direction that maximizes your results? These are all good questions. And along with many other questions, these are the right questions. In today’s…
Read MoreDilbert on Finding Solutions
Sometimes…you just need to laugh.
Read MoreBill Hybels on Overscheduling
“A runaway calendar will keep you from simplifying your life. It holds you hostage to tangible things—meetings, appointments, and projects—without giving proper priority to the intangibles: who you are becoming, your relationships with family and friends, your connectedness to God. Without conscious intervention, this pattern of chronically overscheduling ensures that the priorities you care about…
Read MoreIs It Time for a Small Group Ministry Checkup?
Most of us have probably had days when we’ve woken up feeling a little off. There’s that feeling that something is not quite right, but we wouldn’t say we feel sick…just not quite right. You know the feeling? Now, sometimes that feeling just goes away. Maybe after a glass of orange juice or a cup…
Read MoreBad Idea #2: Use an On-Demand Call Center to Provide Coaching
Not long ago my post 5 Stupid Things Churches Need to Stop Doing (in the name of small group ministry) offered a short list of dumb things churches do. It was an incomplete list. Here’s another really bad idea that actually happened. “Let’s use an on-demand call center to provide coaching!” The essence of the idea Instead…
Read More5 Best Church-Wide Campaigns for Fall 2016
Have you pulled the trigger yet on your fall ministry strategy? It’s not too late, but now is the time if you plan to incorporate a church-wide campaign (an alignment between your weekend message series and a small group study). And although there are two other windows when the impact of a campaign can be…
Read MoreAdd Renovation of the Heart in Daily Practice to Your Coaching Resource List
In keeping with my belief that whatever we want to happen in the lives of the members of our groups, must happen in the lives of the leaders first, it stands to reason that we can’t expect the lives of our coaches and leaders to be something that we are not. With me? As a…
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