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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Developing Volunteer Coaches & Creating Coach Values
In a previous post, I wrote about the importance of establishing a volunteer leadership...
What is your Ministry communicating?
About a decade ago I was told studies had been done about what helps people want to return to...
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 Simple Social Media Strategy for Churches
Social media can be a powerful communication tool for our ministries, but it can also seem too...
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 @ConnexusBarrie
After working with the family ministry team at Browncroft Community Church, I headed into Canada...
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...
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...
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?...
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...
9 Ways Orange Curriculum Helps Beyond Sunday
Orange is an organization and it's a strategy, and that organization provides curriculum based on...
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...