Church Growth Archives - Page 53 of 55

Church Growth Archives - Page 53 of 55 - Church Executive

Board duty is serious business!

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church board, church board governance, church bylaws, Church risk management, protecting church board, protecting church elders

January 1, 2015 at 6:00 am.

People of faith are frequently mission-driven and ministerially oriented. For many of these, volunteering is often considered more privilege than obligation. When such folks have managerial or leadership experience, or when they possess special expertise or have received professional education and training, it is not uncommon that they volunteer to serve the Church via board membership and activity. It is critically important to recognize, however, that even highly educated, skilled and experienced people do not necessarily understand what board service entails and requires of them.

Your church is larger than you think

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Church Growth, Church health, church metrics

December 23, 2014 at 3:08 pm.

In order to understand the true size of your church, you must take into account membership and attendance frequency along with the average weekly attendance.

6 values to the perfect hire!

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Church hiring, Church HR, Church leadership, church staff, church staff management

December 3, 2014 at 11:45 am.

One of the key aspects of my job is making great hires. I look at our staff of 120-plus employees and I thank God every day for the stories behind the people.
While a lot of elements go into hiring, I have found 6 overarching values that drive hiring.

How to adjust to multiple services: 8 tips

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Church Growth, church planting, Church Strategy, Family Life, LEADERSHIP, missions, New Vintage Church, Personal, Preaching

December 3, 2014 at 11:33 am.

How can preachers make adjustments that better prepare them for the transition from one to multiple services? I’ve been a part of such a transition numerous times, and made the transition from two to three, and three to four. I’ve also had to make adjustments for seasons that included preaching live in multiple venues and multiple locations on Sundays. Each season required me to make adjustments — physically, personally and vocationally. While my experience is that the jump from two to three services requires the most adjusting — the jump from one to two services also requires substantial adjustments.
Here are some things I’ve found.

Church Executive Roundtable: Church Management Systems & Software (Part 2)

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church CMS, church software, church systems, management software

December 1, 2014 at 12:00 am.

This summer — at the National Association of Church Business Administration (NACBA) annual conference — Church Executive hosted a live roundtable on a timely topic: church management systems and software. Several high-level ChMS executives joined together to share their expertise.

A real-life profile in generosity

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Church fundraising, church generosity, church giving, giving tools

December 1, 2014 at 12:00 am.

How one church increased its online giving from 6% to 14%

How notification technology can deliver the Good News this Christmas season

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automated calling, automated texting, church calls, church communication, church management, notification technology

December 1, 2014 at 12:00 am.

The Christmas season brings with it so much opportunity for warmth, fellowship and holiness. It also presents a host of other challenges for a church — sudden shortages of time, random acts of weather, a flurry of liturgical and other activities that fill your schedule, and sometimes the sniffles (or worse).
One of the ways you can leverage your and your staff’s time is by looking for tools and systems that are natural “multipliers” — including notification technology.

Engaging Spaces: Engaging from the get-go

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church architecture, Church design, church lobby design, engaging church design

December 1, 2014 at 12:00 am.

For a church’s design to be effective, it must be engaging — beginning the moment someone walks through the door.

Award-winning multi-site staff management

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Church expansion, church management, church multi-site, church planting, Multi-site churches, multi-site management

December 1, 2014 at 12:00 am.

Grace Fellowship Church has launched three multi-site campuses in the past five years. This process has involved two capital campaigns, vision-casting, site identification, site development and leadership training. Here, Pastor of Business Administration Bill Minchin talks about these developments.

Safety Strategies: The vast frontier — and associated risks

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church missions work, Church risk management, ebola crisis, ebola risk management, international ministry

December 1, 2014 at 12:00 am.

In a smaller, more technological world, we can’t afford to underestimate proactive, collaborative safety and risk management strategies. The Ebola crisis has all of us thinking differently, for the time being. Unfortunately, our sensitizing is hard to sustain with so much information hitting our radar screens.