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9 July 2009 0 Comments

Stretch Out Loud – Night 2

Stretch Out Loud – Night 2

Night 2 of Stretch was awesome and I am again amazed at how wonderful our volunteers are at CCV.  The food was great, and our students are having a great time (see the photo below for the happy meal/blender contest!).  April did a great job communicating forgiveness and how our middle school students need to know that God [...]

26 June 2009 1 Comment

North Point Online August 16th

North Point Online August 16th

Andy Stanley is one of my favorite speakers and soon you will actually be able to hear him live online.  North Point will be (kind of) starting a web campus similar to Lifechurch.tv and others as they launch their online worship experience on August 16th.  The video below will give you the scoop is a promo of what [...]

3 June 2009 0 Comments

Less Clutter, Less Noise. Video Interview

Less Clutter, Less Noise. Video Interview

If you were following my blog last week then you know about Kem Meyer’s new book.  Kem planned on having an after party interview on tokbox with Shawn Wood but the system crashed.  However, she was still able to answer some questions through video so if you want to hear her talk about Tony Morgan, learning [...]

29 May 2009 3 Comments

Less Clutter, Less Noise. Kem Meyer Q&A

Less Clutter, Less Noise. Kem Meyer Q&A

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 [...]

21 May 2009 10 Comments

Less Clutter, Less Noise – Blog Tour

Less Clutter, Less Noise – Blog Tour

Kem Meyer, Communications Director at Granger Community Church, will be swinging by on her blog tour to promote her new book – Less Clutter, Less Noise.  Here is what the book is all about: Simple strategies for getting the word out.  Do you ever wonder why people aren’t getting your message? Maybe you can relate [...]

11 May 2009 0 Comments

Multi-site Needs To Multiply Leaders

Multi-site Needs To Multiply Leaders

In the video below, Ed Stetzer shares his opinions about multi-site churches and some of his concerns about how they choose to operate.  The thing that stuck with me is the multi-site method needs to make sure it reproduces great teachers and leaders at the same time it produces churches.  Many multi-site churches utilize video [...]

8 May 2009 0 Comments

The Small Group Exchange

The Small Group Exchange

The Small Group Exchange is a great free resource for leaders to access articles, video training, and exchange ideas all around the topic of group ministry. They recently published one of my articles on their website – check it out by clicking here.

30 April 2009 2 Comments

Can Women Plant Churches?

I ran into an interesting blog post by Dave Ferguson today, “Do you know any female church planters?” In the United States… unfortunately no. It is quite interesting, our culture is quick to push for women’s rights and encourage progress for the opposite sex in other countries but there are still some interesting career areas [...]

18 March 2009 0 Comments

Planning For A Long Ministry

I have been privileged to know Paul Williams for about 8 years now. He’s a genuine Pastor of pastors that has a passion for the Northeast and an excitement for church planting. We are so lucky to have a guy like Paul in our corner. He spoke at our pastor’s luncheon today and spoke about [...]

12 March 2009 0 Comments

Is Your Church Just Creating More Noise?

Kem Meyer, Communications Director at GCC, was recently interviewed about her new book and her role in ministry. Jason Peterman is the one conducting the interview and I think Kem has some great insights on how to keep our communication simple yet effective. There is one powerful line from the interview that Kem said that [...]