Avoiding Failure on Your Next Ministry Idea
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Avoiding Failure on Your Next Ministry Idea

I had a great idea.  A God idea.  What if we got the whole church together on Saturdays for an hour of prayer?  It would be easy to continue the practices started with 21 Days of Prayer.  We could cover our services in prayer.  Lives would change. More people will believe in Jesus! But...

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3 Kinds of Kidmin Volunteers (and How to Keep Them)
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3 Kinds of Kidmin Volunteers (and How to Keep Them)

My Senior Royal Ranger Commander (think Boy Scouts with Jesus) was unhappy. I was at my first church, and I’d recruited a new volunteer for the ministry. He was great for the ministry. But now his son was moving up to the next age group and my volunteer wanted to go with him. The Senior Commander couldn’t understand why this father wanted to leave. Why didn’t he just stay with the age group he was currently serving?

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5 Discipleship Principles I Learned in the Classroom
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5 Discipleship Principles I Learned in the Classroom

I’ve been in-between churches since July. In January, I took an executive pastor role at a small church plant, Christ Chapel East. But that was only part time. Since my degree is in high school education, I decided to put it to use and began to substitute teach. One fateful January morning, I took a math job at a high school I didn’t normally sub. By the end of the day, I had a long-term sub job and by the next week I was responsible for the math education of 150 seniors and sophomores.

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Leader Fails: 4 Steps to Navigate the Chaos
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Leader Fails: 4 Steps to Navigate the Chaos

The kidmin world was rocked last week with the news from Orange. Another leader has failed, and we’re left wondering what happened and what will happen. I usually don’t say anything when this kind of news breaks, but if you’ve followed any of my content you know I’ve been a fan of Orange for years and have recommended their content over and over. I feel I need to share my thoughts.

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 5 Hacks for Streamlining Church Event Childcare
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5 Hacks for Streamlining Church Event Childcare

Being in kidmin, it’s natural for people to ask you to also provide childcare for events. It can be frustrating because that’s not what you signed up for. You are the kid’s pastor, spiritual leader, and discipler, not their babysitter. And yet, the requests still come, and the expectations are still made. Children’s ministry is not childcare, it’s discipleship.

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3 Holiday Practices to Keep Jesus First
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3 Holiday Practices to Keep Jesus First

A few years ago, I hosted the biggest Easter Egg Hunt my church had seen to date.  We had hundreds of kids and thousands of eggs.  We saw many kids accept Christ and everyone had fun.  It was all a big lead up to the next day, Easter.  As I drove home thinking about the wins and losses, it hit me like a kid remembering his semester long project is due tomorrow and he’s done nothing.  Easter is tomorrow.

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How to Set Ministry Goals that Lead to Growth
Leadership, Administration, Service Planning David Reneau Leadership, Administration, Service Planning David Reneau

How to Set Ministry Goals that Lead to Growth

At the end of the year, one of my favorite things to do is to look back at the year that was and the year to come.  What were my wins and losses?  What worked? What didn’t?  What curveballs did I knocked out of the park and what ones slipped by?  It usually takes a few hours for me to go through it all, but my overall effectiveness as a leader and minister has increased every year since I started this practice over 10 years ago.

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5 Volunteer Statements for Your Ministry
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5 Volunteer Statements for Your Ministry

No matter what job you do there are certain phrases and words that are specific to your culture. Most of these words and phrases develop naturally over time as a result of events, ministries, or your denomination. For example, I’m in the Assemblies of God. Here are just a few of the acronyms that any minister in the AG (see what I did there) will know.

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