Posts Tagged ‘Church Wide Campaigns’
The Easter Experience
The Easter Experience, from City On A Hill Productions, is a new church-wide study from the folks that produced H2O. With host and teacher Kyle Idleman, The Easter Experience includes a six session DVD-driven small group study that coordinates with a six weekend message series–designed to conclude with Good Friday and Easter. The DVD-driven small…
Read MoreMaximize the Fall with a Church-Wide Campaign
Have you finalized plans for the fall ministry season yet? It’s definitely time to zero in on where things are going! Much like the way NASA has a scientifically defined window of opportunity for Space Shuttle launches (or landings), there are many factors that determine the success of a church-wide campaign and many of them…
Read MoreThe Exponential Power of a Church-Wide Campaign
What is the most powerful way to impact your entire congregation? Many believe that a church-wide campaign, what Rick Warren refers to as a spiritual growth emphasis, is the most important spiritual innovation in the last 50 years…maybe the last century. Why? Read on. Although there are very basic church-wide campaigns that simply offer a…
Read MorePlanning an Alignment (Church-Wide Study)
It’s that time of year. The very detailed people on your team are already thinking about September and October. The play-it-by-ear crowd hasn’t even thought about Memorial Day (FYI, it’s early in the month this year!). Where are you on the continuum? Here’s the thing. Wherever you are on the continuum, September 13th is coming…
Read MoreHow To Recruit HOSTS
What’s the best way to recruit HOSTS for your upcoming alignment (church-wide study)? You might say it depends on what you’re hoping will happen. Bottom line, the way you recruit HOSTS will determine who you are able to recruit and who you recruit will absolutely determine who ends up doing the study. How’s it worked…
Read MoreHeaven
When you think about Heaven…what comes to mind? For most of us, even those of us who have been walking with Christ a long time, Heaven is a only a very vague concept. Is it a real place? Will there be clouds? Will we have wings, play harps and walk on streets of gold? Will…
Read MoreNew Church-Wide Studies for 2009
I post new information about available church-wide campaigns every year. The latest information is in The Latest on Church-Wide Campaigns (2012). In addition to a handful of classics, there are some new church-wide studies that you’ll want to take a look at. Here’s the short list: 40 Days of Love, the newest campaign from Saddleback, is…
Read MoreCentral Christian’s Small Group Pastor’s Blog
How’s that for an awkward headline? Familiar with Central Christian Church in Las Vegas? We’ve mentioned a couple of their church-wide campaigns here. They’re definitely onto some good ideas from a group standpoint. Tripped across a relatively new blog by Tracey Smith, one of Central’s small group pastors. Small Group Pastors might be an interesting one…
Read MoreYoda on Growth Groups
And the Oscar for Creative Use of a Star Wars theme goes to…Fusion Church Yoda Groups from Fusion Church on Vimeo. Thanks to Monday Morning Insight for the link!
Read MoreMiles McPherson: GroupLife Session 5
Redefine your evangelistic starting point. God responding to the cries of a broken world. That’s the starting point. “I’ve heard your people crying.” Exodus 3:6 When we stop hearing the cries of people… Identify God’s response to the brokenness of your own life. When we begin to feel like we’re fixed and we are now…
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