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In our last post, we talked about some best practices for recruiting volunteers. With many churches operating with less people post-Covid, it’s wise to not burn out a smaller volunteer base with commitments that never seem to end or covering too many programs or ministries with too little. And as mentioned last week, creating and nurturing a great volunteer base is a really good use of Kingdom resources and enables people to step into their Kingdom potential. Before I was

In our post-pandemic world of lower in-person church attendance (averaging about half of what it was pre-Covid), many are left with serious volunteer drop-off problems. Keeping the same programs with less resources is a tough challenge. With tight finances and staff limitations, developing good practices for recruiting gifted, passionate volunteers is critical. Plus, it allows them to step into their Kingdom potential. My friend Barry Long planted and pastored a large church

Play along with me for a minute and let’s use our imagination. If a twenty-something artist named Michelangelo could create something as spectacular as the Pieta five-hundred years ago, think of the Ultimate Artist, one whose imagination spans the gazillion light years of a universe we can’t even fathom…to the sub-atomic world of quarks and neutrinos. If God had an investment in His incredibly complex piece of art called the human being…and if He wanted to use those carbon-

Church ministry is hard because people are complicated. But there’s more to it than just that. Over the years, my wife and I hosted a number of pastors/leaders, their families, and ministry teams at our house...and for some reason, particularly from the U.K. and Germany/Switzerland. At one point, a German pastor on sabbatical with his family stayed with us when the euro was very strong against the dollar. They were happy campers at the mall! Around the same time, the vast eme