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Healthy churches do a lot if it. And, they do it well. Communication is a top priority for churches that want to remain healthy and be effective in ministry for the Lord and His Kingdom. I'm sure you want that for your church. This blog focuses on just one area of church life and ministry – your search for and calling of a new pastor. And reflecting on its contents just might help you improve other areas of ministry. Read on to find out more.
This past week, two of my granddaughters, Adia and Kalanie, who play basketball for the Lynden, WA High School Lions, went with their team to the state tournament in Yakima, Washington. I listened on my laptop to their first game and cheered them on from a distance even though they lost to a tough team. Go Lions! And for the last few days, I have been thinking about what can be learned from basketball but applied to the church. Let me share with you some of the lessons in this blog. Read on to find out what I observed and learned summarized in seven lessons.
As a former church planter, coach, and trainer of church planters, and assessment team member in several church planter assessment centers, I highly value the need and importance of a CPAC. Here are 10 reasons why every aspiring church planter needs to go through the experience of a church planter assessment center.
This week I'm camped out in a hotel room waiting for a Converge Church Planter Assessment Center to begin tomorrow morning. I'll be one of many assessors on a team to help the candidates discern God's will for their first or next ministry. The center will be assessing 10 couples over a three-and-a-half-day period. I'm a veteran assessment team member having served in seven of them a while back, and I've been looking forward to another go at it. As I reflect on beginning the experience again tomorrow, I want to share with you a major observation - a ministry assessment experience should be required for all seminary students. Here's why I say that.
Coaching ministry teams can be challenging, but your task will be a lot easier if you follow certain rules. Read some suggested rules for coaching or leading a ministry team in your church or organization.
Team, committee, or board meetings should be evaluated after a meeting to ensure everyone's time and contributions are not wasted and the purpose of the meeting was fulfilled. The best way to evaluate is for the leader and a couple of team members to ask the following evaluation questions and then forward their answers to the team leader. So, what questions are suggested?
I like lists so here's another one. This one is for church members who are working on trying to find and call a new pastor in a church that's in-between lead pastors.
Yearly ministry review evaluations for the pastor and the elders or church leadership team are very important if you understand the why and how of conducting them. Read on to discover a summary of why they are needed and how to best use them.
All church ministries, committees, boards, and teams make mistakes, but when that happens by one, in particular, the results can be far-reaching and long-lasting. This blog lists some of the most common mistakes made by pastor search committees in churches.
Ministry coaches have the opportunity to work with teams in the church, but to be effective as a coach, you need to know and follow the rules. This blog outlines 10 Rules for coaching ministry teams.