This site is all about sharing information with other church leaders on strategy, method, and analysis. God called me to leave corporate to become part of the staff here at CCV and my desire, above and beyond my role on this church staff, is to put myself out there in service to other church leaders. [...]
Continue reading...April 16, 2010
I’ve talked with many church leaders in my travels and have ongoing contact with many as well. One of the “areas of challenge” that comes up from time to time is what the church leadership should do about divisive people in the church. We’ve managed to document a number of policies and procedures around here [...]
Continue reading...March 12, 2010
The Executive Pastor group, of which I’m a part, recently did a survey to calculate the Average Annual Contributions by Weekly Attendee. It was an interesting exercise to say the least, putting every church on an equal playing field regardless of location, ministry philosophy, leadership structure, etc. Average annual contributions were calculated for each church [...]
Continue reading...December 3, 2009
Yesterday’s gathering of independent Christian church leaders from the northeast was a HUGE success! There were almost 80 in attendance, participating in breakout discussions on various ministry topics including a session for Senior Pastors led by Rick Stedman, the keynote speaker. During and following lunch, leaders shared experiences and details of recent church plant successes [...]
Continue reading...November 26, 2009
In my role as Executive Pastor, one of the things I can never avoid is doing the budget for the church each year. That’s right! Along about October/November the budget is due to the eldership, and it takes a bunch of work to get it together. I thought this year I would share the process [...]
Continue reading...November 7, 2009
As you know, I am Executive Pastor of Christ’s Church of the Valley here in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Like other churches, we are very serious about reaching people who don’t have a relationship with Jesus in our area. We also feel called to help other Independent Christian Churches (ICC) in our area to do [...]
Continue reading...September 8, 2009
Since the beginning here at CCV, we’ve encouraged our staff to “put themselves out there!” We believe, beyond our own church, we are called to be a resource in our region … the northeast. So, our staff is encouraged to network with other independent Christian churches, making themselves available to share ideas and otherwise be [...]
Continue reading...August 4, 2009
On July 19th we asked everyone in the CCV congregation to answer this question: If you could ask God a question and you knew he had to answer you, what would you ask him? Here’s Frank Chiapperino, Teaching Pastor, with the answer to the first question: “Why in the world would God allow me to experience [...]
Continue reading...July 22, 2009
Brian Jones, CCV's Senior Pastor, speaks on the topic of New Behavior by Friday as part of the New Kid by Friday series.
Continue reading...July 15, 2009
Brian Jones, CCV’s Senior Pastor, speaks on the topic of the ABCs of parenting as part of the New Kid by Friday series.
Continue reading...July 6, 2009
Frank Chiapperino, CCV's Teaching Pastor, speaks on the topic of feelings that come from within the heart – It Came From Within.
Continue reading...July 2, 2009
Special guest speaker, Paul Williams, wraps the Marriages Gone Wild series at CCV with his take on the topic of Saving Marriages Gone Mild.
Continue reading...June 22, 2009
Brian Jones, CCV's Senior Pastor, speaks on the topic of keeping marriage "wild" after having a child as part of the Marriages Gone Wild series.
Continue reading...June 19, 2009
I’m reading a new book … A Sense of Urgency by John Kotter. So far so good, but the jury is still out. My attention is easily lost when most books lately are the same old information “re-hashed” by a different author. Anyway, I was struck by the second chapter … Complacency and False [...]
Continue reading...June 18, 2009
Brian Jones, CCV's Senior Pastor, speaks on the topic of taking your marriage from "mild" to "wild" as part of the Marriages Gone Wild series.
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May 12, 2010
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