Posted on October 27th, 2011 by Dennis Beckner
Session 4 – Culture as it relates to your programming Your church is defined by environment, greeters, facility, etc by outsiders Because every visitor is going to evaluate us, we developed an evaluation tool for our staff and volunteers. It was important to create a language and filter for evaluation. Our goal is to create [...]
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Posted on October 27th, 2011 by Dennis Beckner
Creating a Culure of Self Awareness How many of you have a really big problem with self deception? How many of you know somebody who thinks they can sing, but can’t? How many of you know somebody who thinks they’re a good leader, but are really a control freak? How many of you know… Preacher… [...]
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Posted on October 16th, 2011 by Dennis Beckner
I LOVE traditions, rights of passage, etc. I believe it’s a great way to build anticipation for students from one year to the next. When I saw this post over at GenToGenYM.com, I had to share it. Good job Steven! This might be my new first night of small group tradition in future years. Every [...]
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Posted on September 4th, 2011 by Dennis Beckner
Back to school time is a great and natural time for those of us running ministries to attract students to check us out. Since I run The Landing at Saddleback Church, this has been on my mind a lot lately. Here’s what we’re up to: Our Junior High Ministry (Wildside) is going to do a [...]
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Posted on August 31st, 2011 by Dennis Beckner
One of our volunteers at The Landing was telling me about how she keeps in touch with her small group (even some who have moved on) through Facebook. She’s having great success and being very effective with this so I asked her to write a guest post. Here’s what she wrote: Keeping connected through Facebook [...]
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Posted on February 20th, 2011 by Dennis Beckner
The other day one of my students got his wisdom teeth out. As my tradition goes, I took a bag of sour candy to him. The joke of it is that they won’t be able to physically handle eating sour candy. That’s also an incentive to get better. The joke, however, was as much on [...]
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