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The Nines is a totally online leadership conference where you will hear from over 100 ministry leaders (Perry Noble, Francis Chan,  Pete Wilson, Ed Stetzer, and more) from around the country right from your computer!  These leaders have been asked to take 6 minutes to share the biggest game changer they’ve ever experienced.  Our staff here [...]

I’ve received many calls over the years from leaders in the church about conflict.  Small group leaders, elders, key volunteers and staff will call and say, “Frank, my team/group is in complete turmoil.”  I’ll often be silent for a minute or two and let them share and then I’ll be quiet for a moment and [...]

Confession time. Sometimes when pastors preach, we feel like we are on an island and there is no one actually listening.  We get little or no response from the church, and we can almsot feel like what we’re doing is pointless.  It kind of feels like we are stranded on an island in the middle of a lake.  We can see [...]

As a leader in ministry, half my job is meeting with others. Breakfast meetings, volunteer meetings, business meetings, leadership meetings, recruting meetings, creative meetings, staff meetings, and I’m sure there are a few others that I can come up with if I really try.  As a part of these meetings I do my best to [...]

Ministry is hard.  It just is… there are challenges we face in ministry that invigorate us and challenges that discourage us.  However, there is something that I find extremely helpful to pull me through the discouraging challenges… OTHER LEADERS.  Connecting with others in ministry is vital to the life of a pastor, and we’ve got [...]

I have quite a few friends and family going through some changes right now and I was reminded of a post I wrote a while ago that I thought would be good to post again. As a leader in the church, sometimes change is one of the most challenging things for people to cope with especially volunteers. [...]

The Idea Camp is a collaborative movement of idea-makers who facilitate free hybrid conferences and develop resources for people who desire to move ideas toward implementation. Facilitated by a growing collective of innovative thinkers and practitioners from numerous disciplines, participants gather around topics of interest to encourage and inspire one another, share practical wisdom from the [...]

If you are in ministry, you can’t miss out on “The Nines.” Here is the scoop: THE NINES is a free one-day event that will take place totally on-line. It is designed for all church staff members who want to be motivated and stretched in their leadership. Leadership Network asked some of the church’s greatest [...]

I have been having a ton of conversations about social media in recent weeks and I recently listened to a webinar that got me thinking further about our need to merge social media and ministry. Conference calls, staff discussions, breakfast meetings, have all caused me to finally get some of my thoughts down in a blog post. [...]

Kem Meyer is on a whirlwind, one day, blog tour today answering tons of questions about communications in the church.  For the full list of locations click here.  So without further delay, here was my question for the oh so wise guru of communication: Our church seems motivated most to attend events and activities when [...]