Category: Children’s Ministry
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Free Church Photo Release Forms
Having a fun event this summer? Great! Taking pictures, too? Even better! But you can’t just post those pictures on your church website or Facebook page without having signed church photo release forms. Here’s why: Jeopardizing Children Picture copyright issues aside, I see the biggest issue as children’s safety. Consider these scenarios that could very…
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Free Church Event Release Forms
Summer event season is upon us! I hope your church is reaching out, serving and spreading God’s love in your community. Whether you’ve planned the event or have coordinated supporting another organization’s event, you need to seriously consider using church event release forms. Remember permissions slips? Yeah, church event release forms are basically those. Especially…
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Build Your Church Counting Team
Part 2 in a 4-part series on How to Count Church Offerings The members of your Church Counting Team are unsung heroes of your church. Unfortunately, they also stand directly in the line of enemy fire. Building the right team and in the right way will safeguard your church. But it also safeguards the people…
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3 Clever Church Plant Sign Strategies
Good signage inside your building and on the street can make or break a guest’s experience. Here are 3 simple church plant sign strategies that will help everyone feel welcome: Buy More …than you think you’re going to need. Remember the last time you traveled to or through an airport you’d never been to before?…
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3 Ways to Train Church Plant Launch Team
Over the summer, you church planters shooting for a fall launch will be gathering people and shaping them into a launch team. Considering all the ministry teams you’ll be forming, you’re going to need help making sure the right people have the right skills to do the various jobs that need to happen to see…
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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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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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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…