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Make Your Kids Ministry Safer

Keeping kids safe at church requires addressing potential blind spots and implementing effective safety measures.

Leadership

April 12, 2022

7 Mother's Day Ideas for Churches

Every year, we celebrate moms on the second Sunday of May. We give them flowers, say “Happy Mother’s Day!” and eat special brunch food (french toast, anyone?) In the following article, we’ll look at seven ways that your church can plan for and celebrate Mother’s Day with joy, creativity, and thoughtfulness.

How to Start a Church: The Complete, Step-by-Step Guide

A comprehensive how-to for building a meeting into a full-blown church.

SWOT For Organizations With A Large % of Post COVID Staff

Because of so much transition over the past two years, the majority of staff in many organizations have no organizational knowledge or experience of the pre COVID years. This basic SWOT helps the growing list of organizations in this formative position.

Transitioning Staff Well

Staffing turnover dramatically increased during the global pandemic. So organizations have needed to become better at transitioning staff well for the sake of the supervisor, organization and departing staff.

Our Leadership Got COVID... This is What We Learned

A leadership team got COVID during the same week. In our recent article we some lessons they learned through the experience. This will be helpful to you in order to navigate if / when your leadership gets hit.

Spiritual Disciplines: Giving

Last but not least, we round out our series on Spiritual Disciplines with Giving. What happens when we shift our thinking on generosity from something we need to do, to someone we get to be?

Spiritual Disciplines: Meditation

We continue the series on Spiritual Disciplines in this post on Meditation. What is the Biblical context for meditation, how is it different from prayer, and what makes it different from Eastern Meditation? We tackle all that and more in this post!

Time Management and Church Leaders

Leading an organization as complex and evolving as a church requires an enormous amount of diligence. But more than that, it requires the ability to manage personal time, prioritize demands, and stay focused. With multiple types of work to juggle, knowing how to organize and delegate time is critical for pastors, ministry leaders, admin, worship leaders, children’s pastors, and more. In this article we provide you with how to do more than just plan for time management success, but how to achieve it.

Spiritual Disciplines: Prayer

When’s the last time you thought deeply about your prayer life? In this post, we explore what a meaningful prayer life looks like and how to encourage those in your influence to seek that for themselves.

Labor Day 2022 Sermon Ideas

What is Labor Day, where did it come from, and how should you incorporate it into this Sunday's church service? Here we give you three sermon ideas for Labor Day 2021, five Labor Day sermons from years past, fifteen scriptures to include in your Labor Day sermon, and more.

Spiritual Disciplines: Fasting

Fasting has a rich Biblical history, so why is it we often don’t hear about it as often as other disciplines? In this post we explore what the Bible says about fasting and how it should be applied today.

The War of Passion and Exhaustion

It is interesting how the degree of “goodness” of what we are working toward (or are in the middle of) doesn’t safeguard against us waning passion. So how do we pursue and sustain passion in the midst of having a wearied soul? In this blog post we explore this question.

Written by

Sarah Dubbeldam