Author: Patrick
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17 Church Job Interview Questions
If you’re going to be hiring staff for your church plant, you need to have a handful of good church job interview questions up your sleeve. Read on to find my top 17 for 2017. As the pastor and hiring manager, your job in the interview process is to determine if the candidate is a…
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How To Create a Church Job Application Form
Creating your own church job application form could be very time consuming. I’m going to make that process faster and easier for you right now: Even if you get resumes from job applicants, you should have every one of them complete and sign a church job application form. Consistency is important. So is clear communication…
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How to Write Church Plant Staff Job Descriptions
If you’re looking to hire staff, writing church plant staff job descriptions is one of your first steps in the process. But you’ll use them for more than just recruiting. Why You Need Church Plant Staff Job Descriptions Having solid church plant staff job descriptions helps in several ways: As a primary tool for recruiting…
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7 Critical Church Plant HR Forms & Systems
There are lots of advantages to independently incorporating your church plant, but there’s one significant downside: you have to replicate church plant HR forms & systems for your new church. If your church is an independent legal entity, it has its own liability and responsibilities as an employer. If you’re going to employ people, you…
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Why You Need Church Plant Training AND Coaching
Getting church plant training and having a church planting coach are both critical support structures as you embark on planting a new church. But they are incomplete without each other. I used to play with Legos®️. A lot. I loved to spill out all the pieces on the carpet and sit in the middle of…
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3 Ways a Church Planting Coach Helps You
Even if you’ve planted before, having a church planting coach is indispensable in working through the crazy-hard complexity of getting a new church started. A church planting coach isn’t the same thing as a mentor, trainer, advisor or project manager. You may need people in all of those other roles, too, but a church planting…
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How to Form a Church Security Team
Forming a church security team is an important part of your church emergency response plan. Having even a small team of trained people is as important as the plan itself. I used to work as a bank teller, handling cash day in and day out. We had regular training on robbery awareness and planning. The…
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4 Keys to Creating a Church Emergency Response Plan
How does your church plant go about creating a church emergency response plan? There are 4 keys to having a solid plan in place. Gone are the days of burying our heads in the sand. I know this is a potentially touchy subject, but it’s one that every church needs to put at least some…
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4 Reasons Not to Piecemeal a Church Plant Equipment Package
Ordering a church plant equipment package to support weekly worship gatherings is a major expense, whether it’s minimal or huge & complex. You have 2 basic options for getting all that stuff: order it from a vendor that puts packages together for you, or piecemeal a system together yourself. Working with dozens of church planters…