Women’s Disciple Making Check-Up
The following questions will help a women’s ministry/missions leader take an honest look at how their women’s ministry is making disciples. This is a tool to help evaluate what the women’s ministry does well and what might need to change in order to obey Jesus’ Great Commission and fulfill our part in making disciples among […]
Starting Point for Your Work In Women’s Ministry
The discipleship process is critical to any local church. An intentional plan to engage women with a discipleship pathway, strengthens the local church. Women’s discipleship results in church growth, restored marriages, renewed relationships, increased mobilization, and an increase in church leaders. related resources
The Sound Tech Handbook
Making sense of your role as your church’s sound tech. related resources
Stop Meeting
People hate meetings. A recent workplace study by Fischtank PR found 90% of Americans consider meetings a waste of time and productivity. And Forbes reported 58% of workers would rather go to the doctor than another work meeting. Church meetings are no better. They’re often overscheduled, poorly run, and struggle for quorum and impact. If […]
Starting Line
define discipleship to spark ministry to women We want to see churches across Illinois engaged in discipling women and developing women leaders. With those goals in mind, when I sit down with leaders who want to build specific ministries to reach women, I start with one big question: “How is your church currently discipling women?” […]
Coaching New Recruits
their success depends on effective guidance Bruce had hit rock bottom. His days of drinking, carousing, and stirring up trouble with his family had caught up with him, and now here he was, walking alone, slowly navigating the seven miles to his home. He had just cruelly offended his adult daughter, and her response was […]
BIG Moves
leadership expert dave rhodes on the future of the church The future of the church was never dependent on it getting bigger, said Dave Rhodes of Future Church Co. And it won’t be during the church’s recovery. Our primary problem as church leaders, he said, is that “too often we are faking disciples instead of […]
Build A Bigger Table
investing in young leaders benefits everyone When our team is working on a project or event, it often becomes apparent we need other voices in the process. We identify a gap in our collective knowledge about a particular topic or task. Then we need to expand the table to make room for a leader to […]