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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.

What to expect if you’re a church’s first Millennial pastor

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Church leadership, Leadership lessons, Millennial leadership, Millennial pastors

December 1, 2014 at 10:26 am.

A big wave is coming towards the church. It’s the swell of retiring Boomer pastors. Most Boomer pastors are currently between the ages of 50 and 68. They won’t all retire at once, so this wave won’t crash into the church like a tsunami. However, I don’t believe the North American church is prepared to replace these pastors.

Aligning budget with vision

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CFO, Chief Financial Officer, church budgeting, church CFO, Church Finance, Church leadership, LEADERSHIP

December 1, 2014 at 9:00 am.

In 2002, Christina Borja accepted an office manager job at National Community Church (NCC) thinking she’d keep at it for six months to a year. But the position developed and soon she was helping lead pastor Mark Batterson with the books. Under her financial leadership, NCC’s annual budget has grown from $200,000 in 2004 to $7.3 million this year.

Retirement plan investment choices — less really “is” more

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Church Finance, Human Resources, LEADERSHIP, pastor finance, Retirement planning

December 1, 2014 at 9:00 am.

In today’s increasingly tech-savvy environment — in which so many people own smartphones and tablets and maintain a social media presence — there is a tendency to think that a smorgasbord of choices is desirable. This is not the case when it comes to the fund choices your church offers its employees in their 401(k) and 403(b) retirement plans.

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%

Good Steward Award Winner: Oklahoma Youth Camp (Sparks, OK)

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award winning church, Church camps, church facilities, good steward award, good steward church, summer camp design

December 1, 2014 at 12:00 am.

A “Good Steward” Award recipient in the area of children’s / youth spaces, this Assemblies of God facility in Sparks, OK, has 16 modern cabins — each 6,000 square feet — with four large bunk rooms surrounding a central commons area.

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.