Even before I began working in full-time ministry, I loved serving the local church. My husband and I were newly married, I was crisscrossing the country traveling for my job in the music business and yet we still made it a priority to volunteer at the new church plant which we were excited to be […]
For those of you in full-time church ministry you likely woke up this morning with a big fat Easter hangover. Easter weekend included additional services, increased attendance, extra events, more production – every aspect of ministry was in overdrive for the biggest weekend of the church calendar. Now what? Frankly, you and your team are […]
Good Monday Morning! Here’s one of my random leadership observations to get your week off to a good start: People are not predictable. You can’t control them – quit trying! Set up systems and boundaries but be willing to create flexibility for how things get done within those boundaries. You will wear yourself out and […]
When I started this blog a few months ago, I really wanted to create a place where women in leadership, especially women in church leadership could connect. I have been amazed to discover how important this topic is right now and how much we need to keep the dialogue going. I’ve received many emails and […]
Great leaders create great problems. If you’re not willing to create problems; you’re not willing to lead. Leaders create problems by changing expectations. Many churches that have been stagnant for years do not consider themselves to have any real problems. Only when a leader begins to call them out of the status quo does it […]
“The local church should be the best organization to work for in the city. It should be the best run organization because we have a product that we believe will change people’s lives forever.” Andy Stanley made these statements at the Drive Conference this week and I wanted to spring off my chair and shout […]
“the slowest group of adaptors to the 2.0 experience are church people” Read this quote and more stats HERE. Why do you think church leaders are so slow to adapt?
Some quotes from today to get you thinking… Session 2: Becoming a Great Staff – Andy Stanley “The further up the organizational ladder you climb, the more you must serve.” “Great leaders don’t set their sites on leaders they want to emulate, they set their sites on serving people.” “If you have to require loyalty, […]
I’m in Atlanta for the next couple of days for the Drive Conference at North Point Community Church. Things got off to a great start tonight. Andy Stanley spoke about trusting and being trustworthy, especially as it relates to church staff teams. Really great stuff – more about that later… The highlight of the night […]
I read a great article today by Nancy Ortberg about how to avoid the 5 most common dysfunctions of a ministry team. She takes the principles from Patrick Lencioni‘s book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and applies them to ministry work. It’s a great, practical read for church leaders. You can read the entire […]