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Creating Passionate Volunteers
March 4, 2006 – 1:19 pm | Comments Off

Do you remember when you first started your church or ministry? Those exciting times when you spent hours setting up and tearing down the church in your local school or apartment conference room? Do you …

Scalability Creates Responsiveness
February 28, 2006 – 11:21 pm | Comments Off

Tony Morgan has a post regarding responsiveness when it comes to your church or ministry receiving phone or email inquiries. Tony was inspired by a post by Michael Hyatt, President and CEO of Thomas Nelson …

Scalability Enables Creativity
February 20, 2006 – 7:30 pm | Comments Off

In the last post, we examined how ministries can lead the way in creativity through predictability, by the application of repeatable processes and the recruitment of tactical volunteers. This approach can make your ministry scalable …

Predictability Creates Scalability
February 18, 2006 – 1:08 am | One Comment

I have recently been reading a number of posts regarding churches and their lack of creativity. Many say that the church should be leading the way in how we do technology, marketing , and events. …

Pain Thresholds
February 12, 2006 – 11:09 pm | Comments Off

I had a good friend and mentor email me and ask, regarding some of my recent posts:

I read [your recent] blogs. Interesting stuff. Do you think that churches would ever take the time to …

When is “Good Enough”…Good Enough?
February 5, 2006 – 10:24 pm | Comments Off

As a church ministry, time and resources are sometimes scarce. Now that you’ve established your ministry’s contracts and SLAs, new things are going to come up. People will, once again, be tugging at you to …

Outsourcing Your Ministry
February 5, 2006 – 10:23 pm | 2 Comments

It can be hard to give up control. For some, the belief is that no one could possibly do ministry the way you do it. You have your style, your process, your culture. But on …

What is Your Ministry Contract?
February 2, 2006 – 11:04 pm | Comments Off

There is a term in the computer industry called SLA, or Service Level Agreement. It basically dictates what guarantees of service a vendor will provide to their customers, possibly on a per-customer basis. For services …

Time Management Requires Process
January 25, 2006 – 9:33 pm | Comments Off

I’ve heard many times from both staff and lay leaders, “If I only had more time to get this done, we’d really make an impact in our community.” When I ask what they think they …

What’s Your Church Process?
January 24, 2006 – 8:44 pm | One Comment

So, what’s your church process?
Maybe your process makes you proactive, rather than reactive…
Maybe your process encourages growth in your lay leaders…
Perhaps your process is documented and shared with staff and volunteers?
Do you have some …