We need to make serious changes.
Our leaders have been talking about it forever. Problem is, the hole is deep, and our resources are already strained.
I’m not talking about the world’s current financial crisis. I’m talking about the Church.
As we creep into the 21st Century, there’s a growing skepticism about the church. I hear it from pastors. I hear […]

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One of the problems facing the church is the quality of leadership available to lead them. The skill sets needed to move the church forward are often not the skill sets we look for when selecting leaders. We need to ‘hack’ this problem.
Quick Examples:
We focus the search on good preaching, but don’t focus on the prospective […]

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…and what you can do about it.
Volunteers are a church program’s lifeblood and biggest challenge. I’ve seen it from all sides, -as a minister on staff, a program leader & recruiter, and as a volunteer in the pew, -in big churches, middle-sized and small.  I’ve also experienced it vicariously through the thousands of churches I’ve been […]

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Church Accounting is positively scary in some churches…. and I’ve seen it from all sides.  I’ve been on staff as a minister, and I’ve been a “pastor in the pew” as volunteer. I’ve also been doing business with churches for the past 12 years through my www.sundaysoftware.com publishing work. I’ve dealt directly with church financial processes […]

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Meetings are boon and bane in the church. How you lead a meeting, and how you train your chairpeople to lead meetings, can make the difference between success and failure.

Better meetings are more productive.
Better meetings are a way to care for and keep your volunteers.
Better meetings leave time for you to do other important things.

Proudfoot […]

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I am NOT a Germ-a-phobe or hypochondriac. I just have serious concerns about an age-old practice that creates problems in this day and age: the extent to which we pass BUGS around on Sunday morning.
I’m particularly concerned about pastors: they shake EVERYBODY’S hands at the end of worship. How do they stay healthy?  Many don’t. A pastor I […]

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Tom Bandy and Bill Easum are two provocative church consultants. I recommend many of their resources found at www.easumbandy.com  Several very good books and congregational studies.
They have released a FREE downloadable test for your church, with instructions. Take it! ..then discuss it and make plans to do something about it.
http://churchhealthtest.com/

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Hack your office schedule, and hack “the nag” on your computer.
The church office is a tyrant! 
It creates a certain type of work (often busy-work), and turns a pastor (aka “someone who pastors”) into an office troll. I’ve never met a pastor (DCE) worth their salt who wouldn’t rather be leading worship or teaching or being part of […]

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Hack the way mission gets done in the church…
The mission of the Mission Committee is to increase everyone’s participation in giving back. But in most churches, the mission committee is LIMITED in what it can accomplish because it is focused on its own series of events and special offerings, and hobbled by the time constraints of […]

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All systems tend to run out of steam. In physics, this law of thermodynamics is called “entropy.”  Happens in human systems too. In physics, all that’s required is some additional amount of energy to maintain the same output (”work”). But in human systems, renewing our enthusiasm and energy for something is a little more complicated. […]

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