Leadership

When I worked in full-time student ministry, I spent a lot of time in creative meetings planning for the weekend program. After the meeting, with my brain full of ideas and deadlines, I needed a place to organize my thoughts. I settled for a makeshift Excel sheet. I recently discovered a website called Planning Center […]

A report on Family Experience (FX) from Christine Kreisher, Director of Family Ministry at Glad Tidings Assembly of God in Reading, PA: We used FX (we call it Family Fusion) for our community open house of our new worship center and it was spectacular! New space, new set, more fun! We had over 1200 people […]

Fall has been a whirlwind season so far, packed with people, events, and strategy tweaks. After weeks of running really fast, I decided to take a day by myself to evaluate how I was really doing in my own spiritual journey. I wanted to pay attention to what God was doing in me, not just […]

Recruiting is a four letter word: BEST. Giving everything your best attracts volunteers! Excellence is a people magnet. Over the years I have found that the areas of ministry that recruit and retain the largest percentage of volunteers are those that seem to have the highest standard of excellence. It seems as though people are […]

North Point Community Church recently posted an article about why they use reThink’s 252 Basics for ministry to children. This curriculum is based on Luke 2:52: And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men. NPCC cites three of their main reasons for using 252 Basics. We couldn’t have said […]

I recently read a blog post of a youth pastor and client of XP3. Michael Bayne is the student pastor at Grace Community Church in Clarksville, TN. I really enjoyed his post about why they do small groups, and I wanted to share it with you. We launched our small groups at REMIX (our weekly […]

This summer, our children’s ministry team produced a Summer Calendar starting with the last day of school and finishing with the first day of the new school year. It was a fun, colorful 18” x 24” poster sprinkled with connection points for families to come together (such as review questions from that week’s teaching) or […]

This past weekend I was at a retreat that was FULL of incredibly gifted artists. My chosen art form for the weekend was photography, but there was also dance, music, painting, spoken word, and fashion. Most of the participants were between the ages of 20 and 30; I am nearly 40. One of my greatest […]