Category: Launch Team
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Why You Need to Run Church Employee Background Checks
Think that running church employee background checks in the hiring process is unnecessary? I’d advise you to think again. You’ve had your candidate fill out a job application. And you’ve already conducted at least one interview. Before you hire, you need to run a criminal background check on the candidate for several reasons: You want…
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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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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…
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5 Creative Ideas for Church Missions Teams
You have a sponsoring or supporting church that wants to send a missions team to help you get your new church plant started. Want some good uses of the free labor? Here are 5 creative ideas for church missions teams: These ideas are roughly in chronological order based on when a planter would typically use…
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How to Sync Church Calendars to Save Your Sanity
Ever get sick of having to create the same church event over and over on different platforms? If only you could sync church calendars so you only had to enter each event once! It usually goes like this: you’ve planned an event for your church plant. It’s going to be awesome. You need to get…
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Avoid these Grand Opening Bottlenecks
You’ve been praying, dreaming & planning about the launch of your church plant for years and now the day is approaching. Be sure your plans include contingencies for these very likely grand opening bottlenecks. Grand opening bottlenecks are caused by the spike in attendance created by your grand opening celebration. You’ve had a growing team…
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Church Page vs Church Group on Facebook
Have you ever been confused about whether to use a church Page vs church Group on Facebook? No, they aren’t the same thing, and you should probably know the difference before you jump in. The further you get down the path of using either a church Page vs church Group on Facebook, the harder it…
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4 Steps to Delegating Church Plant Responsibilities
The following is a guest post by my new friend in ministry, Deborah Ike. She is a writer, consultant, and project manager focused on using her experiences to help church leaders grow their churches with zero burnout. When you start on the journey to planting a church, you’re wearing several hats: Visionary Pastor Volunteer trainer…
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3 Reasons to Use Facebook Check Ins
Facebook check ins are one of the lesser known and even lesser used tools built in to Facebook. But if you figure out how to use Facebook check ins, it could be an incredibly useful tool. When you use Facebook to post an update on a mobile device, your options are: Status (text) Photo (including…