07/28/08 Summer Priorities - Tip 6: Mission Projects
Short term mission projects are a good way to overcome the unfortunate modern tradition of the “summer slump”. Church people tend to become lackadaisical about Sunday worship because they have forgotten entirely about God’s mission. So if you get...
07/21/08 Summer Priorities - Tip 5: Strategic Planning
Smaller churches tend do strategic planning retreats in August because they think of the program year from September through May; larger churches tend to do these retreats in November because they think of the program year from January through...
07/14/08 Summer Priorities - Tip 4: Personal Mission
Personal mission is the intersection of your spiritual gifts and heartbursts for strangers. Wise leaders invest their extra leisure time to revisit and focus their personal mission IN LIFE (not just their leadership vision for the...
07/07/08 Summer Priorites - Tip 3: Prayer Walking
Time spent “prayer walking” is well worthwhile during the summer. Target the immediate streets or neighborhoods, but also specific areas where church members tend to reside, or from which church visitors seem to come. The warmer weather not...