by Nick Blevins | Apr 20, 2016 | Leadership
The 5 Whys is a technique designed to help someone get to the root cause of a problem or issue. It was formally developed by Sakichi Toyoda and used in the Toyota Motor Corporation. By asking “Why?” 5 times, they believed the nature of a problem would...
by Nick Blevins | Apr 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
Almost a decade ago I was at a conference for churches who were thinking about going multisite. It was a small gathering of about 100-200 leaders, so it felt different than a typical conference. I'm not sure how it came up, but the speaker was talking about volunteer...
by Nick Blevins | Apr 6, 2016 | Uncategorized
A few weeks ago there was a flurry of conversation in the interwebs stemming from a comment Andy Stanley made during a message. You can read some about it here. Andy Stanley has been a huge influence on my life as a Christian, husband, father, pastor, and leader. He's...
by Nick Blevins | Apr 4, 2016 | Family Ministry
In talking about a unified family ministry and the role of a family pastor, the question that often comes up is – What does that look like? The idea of a combined children/student ministry team under one leadership umbrella is still fairly new, so naturally,...
by Nick Blevins | Mar 21, 2016 | Family Ministry, Systems
In conversations with other ministry leaders, I usually find myself asking what tools, resources, and apps they use to see if they might be a fit for our ministry. In order to share the apps we use, I created a FREE resource entitled 30 Apps We Use to Lead Family...
by Nick Blevins | Mar 16, 2016 | Family Ministry, Lead Small
A couple weeks ago I was honored to speak to the amazing preschool ministry volunteers at Park Valley Church. The topic I was asked to speak on was How to Partner With Preschool Parents as a Small Group Leader. Here are the 5 points I shared, that I believe apply to...
by Nick Blevins | Mar 14, 2016 | Leadership
In a previous post, I talked about the importance of being a habitual learner in relation to leading a growing family ministry. It is the most common attribute I see in great leaders. One of the ways I wrote that we can become habitual learners is to build it into our...
by Nick Blevins | Mar 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
Some time ago our family ministry team read the book Creating Magic by Lee Cockerell. It was a great read with a lot of helpful leadership principles. The book Be Our Guest is another great resource, and while our family ministry team hasn't read it together, many of...
by Nick Blevins | Mar 7, 2016 | Family Ministry, Leadership
As everyone who works in ministry knows, it's hard. You never get it all done and every week there are urgent things that have to be balanced with the important things. In the midst of it all it's easy to fall into the trap of simply managing what we have going and...
