Enough theory. Time to execute.
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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…
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How Obama’s New Overtime Laws Affect Churches
I haven’t found much written yet about how Obama’s new overtime laws affect churches. Will you be ready when they take effect December 1? Nobody wants their church to be caught off guard when a significant change like this rolls around. I started looking into it, and here’s what I found: UPDATE: As of Nov…
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How to Get Obamacare Refund for Churches
Did you know that there’s an Obamacare refund for churches? Even if you’re a new church, if you’ve started paying payroll, this might be money you could put back into ministry. When congress passed Obamacare, they knew it could be hard for smaller employers and nonprofits to make the switch, so they added this lesser-known…
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How to Capture Names Without Seeming Pushy
The following is a guest post from Don Corder of The Provisum Group, a friend in ministry that shares my heart for making church management and administration easier for pastors. Figuring out how to capture names without seeming pushy is key. In 1936, Dale Carnegie wrote one of the best books ever written on forming…
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