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 >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 >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 >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 >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 >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.
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A Dallas church’s new interim worship center will eventually become a children’s facility.
Read More >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.”
Read More >The church potluck supper, still a staple in most congregations, is cooking up something bigger in larger churches today. Food service is becoming a department in its own right in not only bringing people together in fellowship, but as a support ministry and outreach tool with other ministries of the congregation.
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Tall and lean, with a sheepish grin, Jon Weece looks more like a carefree college kid — and others may even say he sometimes acts like one — than the serious leader that he truly is. But the 34-year-old senior pastor at one of Kentucky’s largest churches doesn’t mind the comparison.
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