Author: Patrick
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How to Create a Volunteer Matrix
Your church plant is gearing up for the launch of weekly worship services and it’s time to start building your serving teams. How many people do you need to pull this thing off? You won’t know until you create a volunteer matrix. Call it a list or whatever, the volunteer matrix is just an exercise…
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5 Reasons You Need a PreLaunch Vacation
Do you dare take a vacation while you’re planting a church? There is so much to do, and it’s a busy season. Summers for brand new churches can be challenging. Launch Team participation can dip due to vacations. But the bigger question is whether you get a vacation, too. Whether you feel like you can…
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How Obamacare Changes Affect Small Churches
2018 update below “Small” churches (fewer than 50 employees) across America are making a big difference. And as with other nonprofits, they do a lot with a little. One thing that many churches have done to make being a pastor a little less taxing is about to become illegal. Up to this point it’s been…
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5 Practical Church Plant Marketing Tips
There are hundreds of ways to get the word out about your new church. How are you going to decide which to use? Every year planters ask me for church plant marketing tips. “Is it social media?” or “I heard that direct mail is dead…?” My answer is usually, “It depends.” Mostly on your context.…
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Leasing a Church Plant Facility
There is at least one fixed deadline during the year for leasing a church plant facility. Miss that, and you may find yourself in the ‘wait zone’ or scrambling to find a facility. I have seen both crazy antics and providential timing in planters’ efforts in leasing a church plant facility. One planter signed a…
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How to Review a Church Plant Budget
4 Keys to Decoding Financial Plans & Projections You’ve been there – someone has handed you a departmental or church budget and your eyes glaze over. Reading financial charts and spreadsheets is not why you got in to ministry. But now you’re overseeing a church plant and you need help with how to review a…
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How to Create a Church Plant Budget – part 2
Last week we looked at first things to consider when you create a church plant budget. Here’s a few more: Startup vs. Recurring Expenses For a lot of expense categories, it makes sense to think of the budget on an regular monthly basis: if your worship department budget is $2,400 for the year, you have $200/month…
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How to Create a Church Plant Budget – part 1
One of the most important things you will do as you plant your church is create a church plant budget. Here are some things to keep in mind as you do: It’s About Vision Your budget document is less about money than it is about vision. When you create a church plant budget, you are forced…
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Church Copyright Licenses
Artists and composers put food on their table by creating music. Violating copyrights is stealing from your brothers & sisters in Christ; pretty much not cool. Unless you’re going to get written permission for each piece of music you reproduce or perform*, you should use these licensing agencies that provide blanket church copyright licenses for…