“The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower If you’re already talking about the morale of your volunteer team, it must be at a critical spot. If not, you may sense it’s heading in the wrong […]

One of the mistakes most of us make early on as leaders is we simply do too much and lead too little. I can remember leading in a few different roles as a younger leader where it was me leading 30 volunteers, 40 volunteers, or 60 volunteers. In each situation I wasn’t leading leaders, I […]

There are basically two mindsets you can have when it comes to volunteers. One mindset is that they are serving and helping you and you are grateful for anything they can provide. The other mindset could be described using a phrase our pastor likes to say: It’s a privilege to serve. It’s not a right. […]

Are you looking to change something? Maybe you want to change curriculum, change your programming, launch a new strategy, or stop doing something your ministry has done for a long time. Whatever course you want to chart, you can probably count on it not being easy. It’s hard to be a leader without leading change. […]

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been a part of a local church for most of my life. When I was two years old, somebody invited my mom to church and she took them up on their offer. I always say it’s because she had this crazy little boy that only God could help […]

My wife and I have two kids, a son and a daughter. Last year, our son (four years old) became enamored with tents. He loved the idea of staying in a tent. Unfortunately for him, though, we’re not big camping people. We didn’t own a tent. However, that small detail wasn’t going to stop us […]

“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.” – President John F. Kennedy, May 25, 1961 Vision. It’s a term that’s thrown around a lot in business and in churches. It can […]

About 15 years ago our friend and her family moved back home after living in Georgia for about five years. While she lived in Georgia, her family attended North Point Community Church. They were introduced to a personal relationship with Jesus through a different kind of church than they had ever seen before. When they […]

“If you preach from your weakness, you’ll never run out of material.” This is a popular quote from Andy Stanley. He’s right about that, and if we just change “preach” to “write,” it will be a fitting description of the perspective of this article. All of us have a mission and most of us struggle […]

This year is almost in the books and you, like many others, may be thinking about ways you’ll grow or improve in the New Year. One of the many areas I need to grow includes my morning routine. Studies have shown that a little over half of us are morning people, and the “not morning” […]