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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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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Catalyst 1-day conference at Saddleback Church, October 27, 2011 Session 2 – Building a Healthy Staff Culture 1. Healthy and productive staff cultures are characterized by mutual submission – The local church should be the best place to work – New staff orientation – I want this to be the best job you’ve ever had [...]

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Andy – What is the personality of your church culture – If you like it, you’re afraid of messing it up – It’s important for us to surface what’s working right – God’s blessing, but what is he blessing? – How do you lead a team into what God’s blessing and shed what he’s not? [...]

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- What is the personality of your church culture – If you like it, you’re afraid of messing it up – It’s important for us to surface what’s working right – God’s blessing, but what is he blessing? – How do you lead a team into what God’s blessing and shed what he’s not?

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I’ve been trying to do this for a few years. This year it’s going to happen. I’m already seeing the pain and reward. Note: This post is in regard to my Wednesday night small group of high school students, not The Landing student recovery program which I lead on Friday nights Some background: The purpose [...]

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I wrote a post about generational youth ministry for my friends over at Generation to Generation Youth Ministry’s website. Here’s a clip. You can go there for the rest: To raise up a crop of believing servants, youth workers must: – Watch for potential: You can’t mentor every student. Look for the ones who are [...]

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My prayers were answered! We brought an intern onto our staff to help us with our overwhelming load, but also help him get his feet wet in ministry. Now the surprisingly difficult task is releasing responsibilities to him. I thought that would be the easy part. However, I don’t want to overwhelm him or trust [...]

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I saw a note on Twitter linking to this blog which I quickly fell in love with. Rachel, the author, shares the same passion I have for helping youth ministry leaders by sharing what she’s leaned along the way. Do yourself a favor and go check out YouthLeadersAcademy.com

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I liked this post over at MoreThanDodgeball.com because it describes the two churches where I served as a youth pastor prior to coming to Saddleback Church to heal from all of the damage caused by trying to do ministry the way that post describes. The post is great, go there to read it. Here are [...]

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