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I’ve heard it said numerous times, “If you’re not measuring it, you can’t manage it.” It is a statement that is so true in the business world but does that really translate to ministry? I certainly believe so. We can see from the teachings of Jesus that there is an expectation of growth.  The parables [...]

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 [...]

Google has been attempting to engage deeply in social media for quite some time and they might have just launched a tool to help them make a bigger impact.  Google Buzz has arrived.  Ben Parr (Mashable) said this regarding Google Buzz: While it’s still very early into Buzz’s life cycle, initial indications show that Google [...]

Haiti is among the poorest nations in the world and the poorest nation in the western hemisphere.  Before the earthquake the average Haitian would live on less than 2-3 dollars per day.  One missionary recently said this on twitter, “The worst effects are emotional… no smiles on the street and a sense of despair.” Haiti [...]

One of my favorite blogs on the web continues to be Stuff Christian’s Like.  Jon just continues to entertain me in a unique way as he comments on Christian culture and how silly we are at times.  One battle I continue to fight in the office is the whole Mac vs PC thing and Jon [...]

Google Voice is a favorite new tool I’ve begun using this year.  Don’t confuse this with the voice activated search on your phone, Google Voice is a new phone number assigned to you by Google.  A phone number that saves you, your friends and family time and frustration.  People don’t have to make a decision to [...]

Social media is not a fad.  It is a new form of communication.  It provides faster and increasingly more relevant means of communication that are becoming more and more seamless with everyday living. – If 96% of Gen-Y has joined a social network… social media is not a fad. – If social media has kicked [...]

For those of you that are fairly new to the tweetolution, and have jumped onto twitter more recently, here are some great tools and applications that can make using twitter faster, more friendly, and fun: Tweetdeck – by far my favorite twitter tool for my PC.  It allows me to group the people I follow to [...]

Key components to a great church website: 1. Less is more – don’t bombard me with every ministry on the homepage, everyone doesn’t need to know about your underwater basket-weaving class! 2. Don’t make me scroll – long web pages are lame.  I don’t want to scroll forever into a bottomless web pit, remember i [...]

Your church should be on facebook. Plain and simple. Just in 2009 facebook has grown 276% in users aging from 35-54 (reported here) so you can’t ignore this communication tool. 1. Effective Communication – People are already using it. One challenge that we constantly face in ministry is the competition for people’s attention.  I think [...]