5 Apps that are Actually Useful for Helping Small Group Point People to Lead Well
Ready to get organized? Here are five apps that aren’t going to waste your time and just might make you a little more productive.
Vision: Five Fundamentals for Keeping it Clear
We’re moving. It’s a bit of a daunting task, preparing a home, especially when you’ve lived somewhere for nine years now. There are all these little things that need to get done. Things we’ve lived with and hoped to get to one day, but now one day is today and we must prepare our home […]
4 Influencer Imperatives in Small Group Leadership
Bill Hybels in his 2005 Global Leadership Summit address “These Things We Must Do” gave four points, imperatives, we as leaders must do. He implored us to: Keep the vision clear Keep the people engaged Make your meetings memorable Pace yourself for the long haul This is a great list. It is simple and doable. It can […]
6 Quick Questions to Value Volunteers
I love sports and believe that it teaches great things like teamwork, overcoming adversity, and how to deal with success and failure. These are all super important and I believe worthwhile reasons for my children to play. I value our town rec league. It provides me an opportunity to support our local community and meet […]
7 Absurdly Awesome Apps for Groups Leadership
A few weeks back on a day out with my wife we ended up at the local home improvement store. Eighty-four aisles ranging from showers to shrubs greeted us with the express purpose of expanding my todo list. We’re in the midst of tackling some much needed repairs and updates on our home, and as we […]
The Top 5 Podcasts of 2016
When I was a kid I loved the show MacGyver about a secret agent who saves the day once a week. In every show Mac, as his friends call him, ended up in some impossible life and death scenario where he used just his smarts, a stick of gum, a bit of wire and his trusty Swiss […]
Effectively Marketing Small Groups
Great marketing has the power to move us and to change our routines. Starbucks Coffee did this by marketing a new way of life thereby changing millions of American’s morning routine. Starbucks made coffee drinking and going to coffee shops a lifestyle. At the heart of it, marketing, especially church marketing, is about changing habits and replacing them […]
Top 10 Books for Small Group Ministry Leadership
Fourteen years ago I began leading my first small group and quickly realized that I didn’t have a clue. Over the years I have been mentored by some of the greatest small group ministry leaders and thinkers through their books. Here are ten small group ministry books that have been most influential to me. Small Groups with […]
Help, We’re Launching a Campaign and I Need Group Leaders
We’ve all been there, there’s a need and a vision to meet that need, and now it’s time to execute. Execution is tough, but it’s where the rubber meets the road. Simon Sinek encourages, in his great book, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action, for success we must start with […]
