Evaluating Yourself as a Leader
Monday June 23, 2014 | Jim WidemanAll children’s pastors want their ministries to grow, and I believe God wants them to grow as well. For this to happen, we must be willing to grow in our leadership abilities. Individual growth always comes before corporate growth. The key to growth as a leader is evaluation. Change will never take place without constant […] Read more
The Cure for Jealousy
Friday June 20, 2014 | Orange Leadersby Sarah Bragg I’m sure you’ve never been jealous of someone, or of someone’s ministry or speaking ability, but I sure have. Working in ministry, it’s easy to be surrounded by people who can do what you do ten times better. And it’s even easier to secretly wish that person would fail. Jealousy says, “I […] Read more
Married People Book Study, Week 5
Wednesday June 18, 2014 | Orange Leadersby Daron Dickens You want to know something a little scary? When I went to get my Master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy and therefore, my license, I found out something really interesting. I found out that they actually let me see clients fairly quickly in the process. This was a two-year program and at […] Read more
Voice Lessons
Friday June 13, 2014 | Orange Leadersby Abbie Smith Have you ever been in a meeting with a strong leader whose voice was so big that your voice seemed small? I was in a meeting like this recently with a highly respected leader who is very experienced and dynamic. His voice was so BIG that the other voices in the room […] Read more
Married People Book Study, Week 4
Wednesday June 11, 2014 | Orange Leadersby Daron Dickens I serve as a small group pastor at a fairly large church. From time to time people ask to sit down with me to talk through how they can make their church’s small groups run more smoothly. In each case, no matter who they are or where they come from, I have […] Read more
An Appealing FX
Monday June 9, 2014 | Orange Leadersby Greg Payne FX, or Family Experience is a ministry area that uniquely targets a wide range of ages, cultures, and senses of humor. Baby-boomer parents and kids from five to twelve years old can be in the same room at the same time. It’s a challenge to say the least. We’ve found that when […] Read more
Orange-ifying parents
Friday June 6, 2014 | Orange Leadersby Amy Grisham Before you get too excited, there is no perfect equation to get parents to “go Orange,” but there are some questions we, as leaders, should try to answer honestly: Does our communication with parents look like a laundry list of things for them to do? Or are we casting the Orange vision […] Read more
Married People Book Study, Week 3
Wednesday June 4, 2014 | Orange Leadersby Daron Dickens I would consider myself a “foodie.” What I mean is that, the experience of eating a great meal is equivalent to the experience some may have of viewing art, reading a particularly engaging book, or seeing a great baseball game. It is more than a task. It means that I like to […] Read more
Spiritual Disciplines
Monday June 2, 2014 | Carey Nieuwhofby Carey Nieuwhof Discipline is a word most of us don’t like. It’s doing all those things we don’t want to do so that one day we can do the things we do want to do. That’s why you join a gym—because you want to be in good shape 20 years down the road. It’s […] Read more
Taking a Cue From the Theater
Friday May 30, 2014 | Orange LeadersThe Holly Theater in Dahlonega, Georgia, opened for the first time on April 12, 1948, bustling with people who came to see the newest film. In the years after World War II, movies were making people come alive and bringing magic into their lives. With the rise of television, people lost interest in the historic […] Read more
