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Just wanted to take a moment to introduce you to our newest series, 6 Words Of Welcome.
This series will allow you to explore and evaluate your own group’s attitudes and means of being welcoming to visitors and new members as you encounter them…
New series: 6 Words Of Welcome
October 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Unexamined Impulse is Prejudice | #missional
July 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
My buddy Sam Davidson at Cool People Care highlighted this 10 courageous actions to building community in your neighborhood community. It had me thinking that, 1. community is what people are looking for 2. people really do not know how to go about it anymore because we’ve spent a few generations segmenting our lives to [...]
Phyllis Tickle, Freakonomics & a ‘vital’ congregation
June 16, 2011 By 2 Comments
In my latest posting of my newfound Neflix documentary watching I choose to watch Freakonomics. I am fascinated with Levitt’s concepts and numbers crunching analysis. This is rather funny to me because I am far from a numbers type person. However, he seems to tap into something that I believe for many of my church [...]
Attraction vs Influence
March 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Mitch Joel had some interesting thoughts the other day in regard to our obsessions with attracting the big crowd as a media & market solution. He threw out that Charlie Sheen has garnered over 1 million plus twitter followers within days of creating a profile. He even admitted that he is one of those followers [...]
branding your YOUth ministry
February 1, 2011 By 2 Comments
I wrote up this posting for YouthWorker Movement & encapsulates some of my ‘short session’ from Perkins School of Youth Ministry last month. Last month I did a session at Perkins School of Youth Ministry on “branding” ones youth ministry (the image above is my whiteboard, minus that “revitalize church” not sure what that’s from). [...]
bringing back the blog : an idea for the future
July 8, 2009 By 3 Comments
i basically took the month of june off from blogging, in case you didn't notice.. part was work induced, part was family induced, mostly though, i needed to take a break & figure out how to come back to blogging and feel good about it. i figured to come back july 1st.. oh well. the [...]