I can be loud–really loud. Not obnoxious loud, not loud when I speak normally, just loud in volume when necessary. I often joke that it’s because I’m the daughter of a drill sergeant, but regardless of the reason, if a group of people at church want an auditorium of milling adults and kids to be […]
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The communication project started out as an email plea for help. Our mission committee was working with two orphanages in Mexico and they wanted to provide backpacks for the children there. I got a frantic email for help–the committee knew they needed a way tell the congregation about it, but they didn’t know where to […]
In the video that follows, Malcolm Gladwell talks about his 10,000 hour rule. This rule, based on extensive research, is that it takes about 10,000 hours to achieve mastery in a field. To make that number more manageable, it means that you need to work on something 40 hours a week for 250 weeks, or […]
True story here: a growing church of 1800 (from 300 only three years earlier) decided to start a Men’s Ministry with a Bible Study for men. Lots of prayer and encouragement from the pulpit, plus a splashy PowerPoint show, encouraged men to come. The night of the study the staff set up 200 chairs in […]
“What a silly question,” you were probably thinking as you read the headline. Another question: Do the first time visitors that come to your church on Easter for the petting zoo for their children know you don’t have one every week? This one isn’t really silly, but serious, because it points out that if you […]
