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.
How To Help Your Church Engage Families Through Serving
Thursday December 3, 2015 | Joe McAlpineby Joe McAlpine Imagine taking your first born into a foreign environment for the first time where no one speaks the language and there is extreme poverty all around you. This is exactly what I had the opportunity to do with my son Elijah about a year ago. We went to Brazil to work with […] Read more
The Orange Connection Benefiting Children Around The World
Tuesday June 16, 2015 | Joe McAlpineby Joe McAlpine It’s a hot and sunny day. I am in a bus in Quito, Ecuador, headed to my first experience with a Compassion International project. I am traveling with a few other pastors, and as I look around I can see that they are probably thinking some of the same things I am. […] Read more
It’s Not All About Fun . . . But It Certainly Starts With It
Tuesday May 12, 2015 | Joe McAlpineby Joe McAlpine “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” -Dale Carnegie I recently received a really cool email. It went like this: Dear Pastor, I was a visitor at your church this last week. I wanted to say that my family had a great time. We were hesitant to […] Read more
How To Relationally Navigate Change
Friday March 27, 2015 | Joe McAlpineby Joe McAlpine Names and places have been changed to protect those involved . . . but this is a true story. Tim was a children’s ministry lifer. He was creative, energetic, and full of passion. He was so excited when he got hired at First Christian Church to be their new children’s pastor. The […] Read more
5 Reasons Parents in Your Church Don’t get It
Thursday April 10, 2014 | Joe McAlpineI often hear leaders of nextgen ministries complain that the parents in their church just don’t get it. I will often ask the follow up question “get what?” What they mean is that they feel that most parents in their church don’t get that it is the parents responsibility to be the primary spiritual […] Read more
5 Ways People Will Know You’re a Faker
Monday February 17, 2014 | Joe McAlpineby Joe McAlpine Nobody likes a faker. We have all heard the mantra “fake it ’til you make it.” I think that statement is a lie. When I first got into ministry, I didn’t have a clue what I was doing. I remember sitting at my desk on my first day as a pastor thinking, […] Read more
