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Become Your Own Customer
December 15, 2008 – 5:52 am | One Comment

I’ve been noticing recently that many folks don’t monitor or manage their own RSS feeds, and don’t know when they are broken or don’t appear correctly. What that means is that they are not seeing …

Towel Dispensers and Church Ministry
July 28, 2008 – 5:00 am | One Comment

The bathroom at a recent job site has a folded towel dispenser. You know, the ones where when you pull down one you sometimes get 2 or 3 more. Over the last few days, they …

Keep Your Volunteers Interested
June 23, 2007 – 7:39 am | Comments Off

Would your volunteers say they are “Bored Now” and yawn?
I stumbled across some interesting volunteer statistics from a UK research firm:
Younger people aged 16-24, were more likely to be involved in informal volunteering than any …

Extending Your Ministry Through Networking
June 14, 2007 – 9:57 am | 2 Comments

In a recent podcast, a question was posed to the group about how to recruit volunteers for church ministries that require specific skills. While it can be difficult to locate volunteers with the specific skillset …

Welcome to ChurchCommunicationsPro Readers!
October 23, 2006 – 7:37 am | Comments Off

Welcome to those that are coming from the 5 Blogging Questions interview at ChurchCommunicationsPro.com! Cory Miller contacted me last week to do the interview and I had a great time. If you are a reader …

Simple Ministry
April 27, 2006 – 5:33 pm | 3 Comments

There has been a lot of talk recently regarding all of the new generation of “simple applications.” Recently, Brian Glass posted about User Interfaces. He names 4 different tools he uses: in-house terminal based applications, …

Quarterly Meetings
April 1, 2006 – 11:46 pm | Comments Off

Can you believe it? We just closed the books on March and we are one quarter through the year. How are those New Year resolutions? Getting everything done that you had hoped? God willing, I’ll …

Invest in your Bench
March 21, 2006 – 6:52 pm | Comments Off

One day, it will happen. People will get sick. Others will move away. And you’ll be left covering way too many services by running the soundboard, changing worship lyric slides, or checking in children. Be …

Ministry Noise
March 18, 2006 – 3:05 pm | Comments Off

Are you good at what you do? I mean, really good? Do you stand out from the crowd or cause noise pollution? [tag]Seth Godin[/tag] had a post this week titled “The noisy tragedy of the …

Meet Them Where They Are
March 12, 2006 – 1:09 pm | Comments Off

Those of us in church and [tag]ministry leadership[/tag] have often followed the idea of “meet them where they are” when reaching out to the lost. When we think of how Jesus taught us this concept, …