Articles in Managing Your Ministry
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …