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Christianity Today has an interesting piece up called, Blessed Insurance (Clever title, huh?), about the struggle more and more churches are having to provide health coverage for their pastors. There are several factors at work.
1. An aging pastorate that will have higher group premiums than a younger one.
2. Denominations not forcing member [...]
You have defined what your meeting is to be about…you have communicated about your meeting…your ducks are in a row…now it is time for your meeting.
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Having done your work ahead of time has been the hardest part, but there are still some things you can do to manage the meeting and [...]
This morning I was at home taking some time off after missing my off day over the weekend. It was about 10:30 AM when my phone rang. When I picked it up there was a slight delay that clued me into the fact that a recoreded message was coming.
Sure enough, this is what I heard. [...]
Because you have already determined what this meeting is to accomplish, this step in Meeting Mastery is considerably easier. The next step is preparation.
Just like you would not dream of going up to preach unprepared, (Well…occasionally I dream of preaching unprepared. It is that recurring dream when you are moving in slow motion [...]
You have now followed step one, defining the purpose of the meeting. With that firmly in your mind, you can go about inviting the right people to this meeting.
This may include a board with oversight, stakeholders in a decision, interested parties but people not officially involved, people with expertise in an area to [...]
Let me tell you one thing that they did not teach us in seminary…how to run a meeting. I have been in a number of horrible meetings over my years in ministry. Meetings where nothing is accomplished, time is wasted, and we wish we were doing something else. Meetings where we think [...]
If you have been with me for a year now, you know about GoodSearch, a search supplier that shares revenue with non-profit groups. I had said that it looked like one could not make much money using it, but it looks like one could make more than I thought.
This is an estimate they have…
Church [...]
