Strategy, Method, And Analysis For Church Leaders

Here They Are Again … The Fundamentals of Leadership

Leadership Fundamentals Post

Leadership boils down to what we do, not the results of a spiritual gifts assessment or Myers-Briggs survey. These are good tools to help evaluate an individual and their leadership “potential,” but they do not tell us whether or not a person is good at leadership. Going to school, no matter how advanced the degree(s) [...]

Northeast Pastors’ Summit – Wednesday, September 8, 2010

The next Northeast Pastors’ Summit is on for this coming Wednesday, September 8th! The purpose of the Summit is to create an environment for northeastern independent Christian church leaders to network with one another, sharing ideas and being there for each other through the ups and downs of leading in the local church. Friendships are [...]

Culture is Critical!

The success or failure of an enterprise is almost entirely dictated by how well the senior leadership of the organization creates a healthy culture. That’s a bold statement, I know, but it’s painfully true. Read on … A while back I wrote a series of blog posts on the topic of Leadership Fundamentals. Basically I [...]

The Fundamentals of Leadership

You know, I’m getting “longer in the tooth” everyday adding more and more years of leadership experience to my resume as I go. I’ve been at it for a very long time. I remember my first “paid” leadership position was at the young age of 18. I was a lead operator on an automated electroplating [...]

Leadership Evangelism Operating Procedure

1. Purpose The purpose of this operating procedure is to establish, document, and communicate the process for intentionally identifying, assessing, developing, and deploying leaders at Christ’s Church of the Valley (CCV). 2. Scope The leadership evangelism process should be used by Ministry Staff to identify and deploy leaders into ministry for the good of the [...]

Putting Ourselves Out There

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 [...]

Recommended Reading

Much of what I know about leadership and infrastructure development has come as a result of lots of experience and reading lots of books, not to mention college, conferences, seminars, etc.  And, since my purpose in having this blog to begin with is to help others learn and develop a better understanding of the importance (and [...]

Leadership Evangelism

I have spoken to and worked with many church leaders over the years, and one of the most common issues they are facing is the challenge of finding leaders to enable and fuel the growth of their ministries. Without a good supply of leaders, a church will find it very difficult to grow, increasing conversions [...]