Enough theory. Time to execute.
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12 Church Sub-Calendars You Need Today
Church sub-calendars are a great way to keep everything organized at your church. Setting them up is relatively easy and it solves the following 3 problems. Whether or not you’re a program-driven church, there are things that happen in the life of your church each year. Keeping them all straight is important. If you use…
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4 Steps to Church Planter Soul Care
The following is a guest post by my new friend in ministry, Tony Nelson. He is a Regional Director for the Christian Evangelistic Association, a Co-Founder with his wife of Refuge-Idaho (a pastor-care retreat), and a seasoned church planter soul care practitioner. Let’s face it. Planting a church is a daunting task. I know. I…
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How to Fire Church Plant Staff, part 2
As you continue to work through how to fire church plant staff, be sure to keep it a very human process by communicating well. Letting someone go from your church staff isn’t going to be easy. And how you communicate it will have a huge impact on how it goes with the employee and on…
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How to Fire Church Plant Staff, part 1
I wish I could say this never comes up, but some of you planters are going to need to know how to fire church plant staff. In my church planting circles there are legendary but true stories about this, like planters having to fire worship leaders 2 weeks before launch. And there are too many…
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3 Reasons to Coordinate Benevolence with Your Community
Churches don’t stand alone in their communities. Here are 3 great reasons to coordinate benevolence with other groups in your community. Church benevolence programs often take the form of helping with groceries, paying utility bills, providing clothes, etc. Those are the kinds of needs that other groups are probably already addressing in your community. Avoid…
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7 Church Benevolence System Basics
There are some church benevolence system basics you need to think through before you field your first request for help. Make decisions about each of the following: Establish a purpose Pray about it and search the scriptures. God has a lot to say about generosity and helping those less fortunate. You need to have a…
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Who Should Your Benevolence System Help?
A benevolence system is all about people. But who should it help? At the end of the day, it’s a people process through and through. And there are several categories of people that your benevolence system could help: People from the Community Turns out that this is the least agreed-upon group of people. Not because…
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How to Create a Church Plant Benevolence System
As you get connected in your community, sooner or later someone will contact you for help with a utility bill or car repair. What are you going to do about church plant benevolence when it comes up? There are lots of scriptural mandates around the concept of benevolence, including Jesus’ parable about the eternal reward…
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The Fast and Free Way to Process Church Plant Fundraising
You’re ready to make your first fundraising ‘ask’. Do you have everything in place to process church plant fundraising when a supporter says ‘yes’? Here’s how you can get that done fast, and in most cases, free. Before you make that first ask, you need to have your processing infrastructure in place. Just imagine –…
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