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Porn Again Christian - Mark Driscoll
"You are part of a culture that spends more money each year on pornography than country music, rock music, jazz music, classical music, Broadway plays, and ballet combined. In Paul’s day, he...
Lifeshare! Take The Challenge!
LifeShare, is a 7 day online challenge for all of us to extend the love and compassion of Jesus to our friends, followers and online communities. Here is the schedule for the seven day challenge! Schedule...
Catalyst - October 8-10th 2008
Every Year Catalyst puts together a great line up of speakers, music, media, and breakout labs to inspire leaders that gather from around the country to continue to be creative and culturally relevant. ...
Demonstrate Love For Your Community
Just saw this great idea on Think Christian. Here is a way that a group of friends demonstrated their love for their community in a practical way. Check out the video below! Benched...
What Can Kill A Small Group?
I am really enjoying Bill Search's Blog and I can't wait to read his book Simple Small Groups. He recently addressed some issues that can kill a small group and that they all boil down to three catagories...
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Children's Ministry Decor - Worlds of Wow!
Worlds of wow continues to hit it out of the park. Here is a recent video of a project the completed in some Children's Ministry space.
Conspire - Children's Ministry Conference
The Willow Creek Association puts on a number of great events every year and their Children's Ministry Conference is one of them. Every couple of years we send a team of volunteers and staff from...
Recruiting Volunteers for Kids Ministry
Each year our church does a HUGE kids event we call Kids Camp. To execute this event on such a large scale we need about 300 volunteers to pull it off. Here is a funny video we produced to...
Jelly Telly
The average American kid watches 5 hours of media per day! That amazes me. We limit the amount of TV our kids watch daily and I remember having similar limitations while I was growing up. The interesting...
Worlds of Wow
Are you interested in adding some "wow" to your children's ministry space? Worlds of Wow will work with your church to create themed environments and play attractions. Find out more at http://www.worldsofwow.com/....
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What Changes Would You Make?
One thing I often like to ask new people who have only attended our church for a short time is, "What would you do differently at our church if you could change one thing?" Granger Community...
Shift - Student Ministries Conference
When I first joined the church planting team at Christ's Church of the Valley my role was to get our youth ministry started. It was an exciting time starting with 4 teenagers and turning our youth...
High School Retreat Ideas
Since we are currently searching for a youth pastor at our church, I had the opportunity to plan Escape, our High School Retreat, with our summer interns. As we were driving to the retreat...
412 Students (a.k.a. Sidekick)
Do you want to provide a great camp or retreat for your student ministry, but dread taking care of all the details? 412 Students (a.k.a. Sidekick) organizes camps, retreats and weekend conferences...
The Bridge
The Bridge, located in Joplin, Missouri, will open it's new 64,000 square foot building on April 7. It features a 45' rock climbing gym, cage basketball, an internet cafe, wireless hotspot and...
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Do More With Projection
Sometimes I think many ministry staff can get stuck in a rutt with worship experiences. There are a ton of ways we can use a video projector that just the usual Sunday way to put up words for songs,...
Announcements Made Easy
Doing announcements at church on Sunday is always a challenge. Sometimes it can put a real damper on the worship experience. Tim Stevens posted recently on how Granger is changing the way they handle...
Is Drama Dead In The Church?
Nancy Beach recently posted a discussion she had with some local leaders in the Chicago area where they asked if drama was still relevant in the church. Here is her post: I just spent a long lunch...
Lincoln Brewster - Today is the Day
Lincoln Brewster's latest, Today is the Day, is finally out! Check it out to get some great worship stuff.
DVD Resources - Crossover Church
Check out the DVD resources from Crossover Church. I haven't watched any of them, but the series titles and graphics caught my attention. Here's an example. "Sex is everywhere we look –...
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Church Marketing Mistakes
Kyle, on his blog - The Plow, posted some findings he recently read in Branding Faith by Phil Cooke. It focuses on mistakes churches make when hiring and agency or contractor for marketing help:...
MinistryCOM 2008 - Success!
Kirk Longhofer, Communications Director at First United Methodist Church, wrote a wrap up of the event and stated it was a home run! Here is his take on what went down at MinistryCOM: Conferences...
Jesus Did Marketing
Dave Jones released Spend Less, Reach More earlier this year and based upon the writing on his blog I plan on picking up his book. He points out the fact that we forget Jesus did marketing so he...
Creative Church Communication
I think that churches are often stuck in a rutt when it comes to communication. For whatever reason we are fearful to try new things and push the envelope and take risks. Here is a link...
What Is Your Church Lingo?
When we planted Christ's Church of the Valley in the suburbs of Philadelphia it was my first experience at a church that was driven to reach lost people and help then find Jesus. One of the significant...
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How To Manage Staff Dissagreements
Dissagreements on a church staff can be challenging but a staff culture where everyone on your team is a "yes man" is not healthy either. Kem Meyer is the Communications Director at Granger...
How To Determine Staff Salary
How do you know what you should be paying a new staff member? Or how do you determine if you should give a current staff member a salary adjustment? Kevin Stone, from Executive Pastor Online recently...
Why People Volunteer
Tim Stevens recently posted some reasons he feels people step up to serve in our churches. Here are his thoughts: Why would someone volunteer to work with kids, take out the trash, park cars, change...
Female Pastors - Pulled From Bookshelves
Gospel Today magazine recently released an issue that was sharing the stories of some women that pastor churches around our country. Their joys, challenges, fears and dreams about ministry. ...
Church Metrics - Free Tracking Software
The Digerati Team over at lifechurch is going to release a new free tool for churches to aid them in tracking attendance, giving, conversions, and baptisms. Go to this website and enter your email...
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Mobile Reminder Tool
I dont know if you are like me but when I am on the go and someone tells me something important, or gives me something to do I have got to get it on a list. Often I wish that I could email myself...
Challenges for the Church in the Digital World
Cynthia Ware recently posted on 10 challenges that the church has to confront head on to impact our world when it comes to technology and this digital generation. Here are her observations:...
Grace Point - Wichita
Be sure to check out the trailer at http://www.gracepoint.com/. GracePoint is located in Wichita, KS, and held its first service a little over 3 years ago. You can also find out more about GracePoint...
When I Grow Up
Check out this video from Granger Community Church called "When I Grow Up." It's a powerful reminder that we shouldn't settle for less, but strive to be a part of something God sized....
Internet Campus
For the last four months, Carmi and I have been watching worship experiences via LifeChurch.tv's Internet Campus. We really look forward to it each weekend. Here's what we like about it (no particular...
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