Five Ways To Train Volunteers and Which One Is Best
In the survey I recently did, volunteer training was one of the top topics family ministry leaders...
7 Things We Do As A Family Ministry
Recently we had a big training with all of our children and student ministry teams. The primary...
What Should a Family Pastor Do?
The role of Family Pastor / NextGen Pastor is somewhat new in the church. I'm referring to a staff...
6 Reasons We Should Pay Children & Student Ministry Staff More
Almost anyone who works in children's ministry or student ministry understands what it is like to...
Developing Volunteer Coaches & Creating Coach Values
In a previous post, I wrote about the importance of establishing a volunteer leadership...
8 Measures of a Healthy Family Ministry
I read a great post over on Tony Morgan's blog last week about focusing on health instead of...
A 5-Part Strategy for Partnering With Parents
When our church was started as a church plant almost 15 years ago we believed the foundation of...
What is your Ministry communicating?
About a decade ago I was told studies had been done about what helps people want to return to...
How a Volunteer Leadership Pipeline Can Grow Your Team & Church
Every ministry leader wants more volunteers, but what if we are a barrier to making that happen?...
7 Steps To Launching a Ministry Network
In a previous post I wrote about 5 Reasons I Love Our Children's Ministry Network. I know many...
My Thoughts on Volunteer Ratios for Kids & Students
In children's ministry, you often hear about ratios of volunteers to kids, specifically in each...
A Church StratOp For Your Church
Most of you who read this blog lead in ministry in some capacity. If you're like me, you feel the...
How to Reach More People Through Social Media Ads
Most, if not all, brands, businesses, and churches are using social media to reach people today....
A Simple Social Media Strategy for Churches
Social media can be a powerful communication tool for our ministries, but it can also seem too...
9 Ways Orange Curriculum Helps Beyond Sunday
Orange is an organization and it's a strategy, and that organization provides curriculum based on...
The Teenage Brain & Why Lead Small is Important
Lead Small is a phrase coined by Orange that promotes the idea that every child, student, and...
How To Improve Family Ministry Quality & Consistency
Previously, I wrote about how we try to keep a finger on the pulse of our environments in order to...
5 Things I Learned From Visiting Lifepoint Church On a Sunday
A couple of weeks ago, I shared two posts about what I had learned from time spent with two...
Children's Ministry Space: Planning for what you need
Our church moved into a new building a while back, and one of the things I had to plan for was the...
5 Things I Learned from Visiting @ConnexusBarrie
After working with the family ministry team at Browncroft Community Church, I headed into Canada...