Dirty jobs: Professionals can help maintain church facilities
Anyone who maintains a church or Christian school knows that keeping buildings clean can involve a lot of dirty work.
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Play for keeps: Should your church build a sports facility?
Churches seeking to increase their Kingdom impact are in a fierce competition for people’s time and attention.
Read More >Impact the quality of ministry with speakers in the sanctuary
With today’s technology there are many solutions for achieving balanced sound coverage in a large worship center. The old days of hanging speakers in one cluster from the center of the room are gone. Today there are many options to choose from.
Read More >Get on the bus to help fulfill the ‘Great Commission’
Bus ministries are vital outreach extensions for today’s churches. These ministries provide a way for children and adults to attend Sunday school and services that they might not otherwise have the opportunity to attend.
Read More >Five essentials to achieve excellent guest services
I enjoy going to Starbucks because I know I will be greeted by a barista who is going to make me coffee exactly the way I like it. I like to shop at Wal-Mart because I know I am going to be welcomed by a smiling face and made to feel like I made the right choice in shopping there.
Read More >Comprehensive bank options for churches can pay dividends
Most churches piece their financial partner relationships together based on a chain of disconnected events or referrals. Interest rates decline and a decision is made to shop for a new mortgage lender.
Read More >Combine the vision of Moses and the management savvy of Aaron
Gil Rendle and Susan Beaumont in When Moses Meets Aaron: Staffing and Supervision in Large Congregations (Alban Institute, 2007) have written about employment relationships, performance management, and supervisory relationships.
Read More >Churches can do better at extending the welcome
The simple act of extending the right hand of fellowship to visitors to our churches is fraught with difficulty and ineptitude, and many first-time visitors won’t come back as they experience a cold or indifferent church.
Read More >Watermark Community Church in Dallas, TX
A Dallas church’s new interim worship center will eventually become a children’s facility.
Read More >Anglican parishes prevail in property fight in Virginia
Eleven churches of The Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Church of Virginia in December 2006 voted to “hold steadfast to historic faith and to Scripture, the authority of which was formally rejected by The Episcopal Church.”
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