Joe McAlpine
Joe McAlpine has been involved in ministry for over a decade, serving in staff leadership at churches ranging in attendance from 500 to 7000. Joe currently leads the family ministry team at Mosaic Church in Wisconsin. Mosaic is a church plant that is only a year old and has a heart for discipleship. Joe is happily married to DeAnn and has four children, Elijah, Selah, David, and Elisabeth. In his spare time, you can find him hanging with the family and playing his ukulele.
The Art of Complete Appreciation
Tuesday March 28, 2017 | Joe McAlpineIt’s often not the leader that makes a team great, but the team itself. When you look at a successful leader just about anywhere in the world you will most definitely see a team of supporting people not far behind them. What we do day in and day out as we build great ministries to […] Read more
The Secret Weapon in Every Kids Ministry
Wednesday February 22, 2017 | Joe McAlpineWe have all heard about the limited amount of time we as kids ministry leaders have with the kids in our church. It’s about 40 hours each year. We have 40 hours to unwrap all of the great things God has for us and deliver it to the kids in our church in a way they […] Read more
Inspiring Others to a Greater Good
Wednesday January 18, 2017 | Joe McAlpine“The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but no vision.” – Helen Keller Vision is the backbone of any successful organization. If you were to look at some of the most earth shattering achievements the human race has ever accomplished, there will always be a vision worth following somewhere in the […] Read more
How to Welcome New Attendees to Your Church
Thursday January 12, 2017 | Joe McAlpineIt’s an exciting time of the year. People are making all kinds of positive changes in their lives in the name of New Year’s resolutions. One of the New Year’s resolutions we often noticed is via an increase in church attendance—people resolve that they will attend church more often in the new year. The problem […] Read more
Navigating Uncertainty and Change
Monday November 21, 2016 | Joe McAlpineAll you have to do is turn on the TV or social media for five minutes today to understand that our society is facing a myriad of issues. As I look back on our great country’s history, I am not sure that I can find a time that has seemed more explosive and divisive. Living […] Read more
Budgeting From Vision
Tuesday November 15, 2016 | Joe McAlpineFolks, fall has officially arrived! This season brings so many cool things from changing leaves to the dreaded pumpkin spice. Yes I used the word dreaded to describe pumpkin spice. I was driving the other day and saw an auto garage advertising that they had pumpkin spice motor oil. It is definitely a huge problem […] Read more
Do You Know Your Neighbors?
Tuesday November 8, 2016 | Joe McAlpineRelevance. A word that sometimes can be tossed around fairly flippantly in the local church. What does this word mean, though? All too often we hear that word and think that adding more lights, louder music or maybe updating the preaching style to be a bit more “edgy” makes us relevant. I am not sure […] Read more
3 Questions to Ask Yourself When Navigating Tough Issues
Tuesday November 1, 2016 | Joe McAlpineAll you have to do is turn on the TV or Social Media for five minutes today to understand that our society is facing a myriad of issues. As I look back on our great country’s history, I am not sure that I can find a time that has seemed more explosive and divisive. Living […] Read more
How Audacious Leaders Raise Money
Tuesday October 18, 2016 | Joe McAlpineSeveral years ago Pflugerville Community Church, a small, middle-class church of 300 members, raised $25,000 in a single Christmas Eve offering. They ended up raising enough to build a home in the Colonias along the Texas-Mexico Border. The southern border of Texas runs 1,248 miles across and is lined with neighborhoods called “Colonias.” These communities […] Read more
Embracing The Huge Potential Of Parents
Wednesday August 24, 2016 | Joe McAlpine“Your job as a leader is to define spiritual leadership in terms for the family that are POSSIBLE and PRACTICAL so they can do the thing that they are wired to do as a family.” – Reggie Joiner The church has approximately 40 hours a year to invest biblical truths into a child. We need […] Read more
