You envisioned your church, you got the funding, you launched, you recruited, you interviewed (several times!), you onboarded, you invested, you coached, you prayed, consulted, …and that resident STILL didn’t work out.
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It’s that time of year again! In ministry, the holidays can result in weariness with busy schedules and juggling expectations at home, yet, it’s the prime time in which people in the community often explore the Church and who Jesus is. How can we best serve others and help them meet Jesus if we, ourselves, are running on empty? The reality is, we can’t!
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Brittany Crimmel is a 20-something Production Manager at Saddleback Church’s Lake Forest Campus in southern CA. As an impressive as that might be, it’s really her passion to grow, helping others meet Jesus all along the way that is inspiring, especially as you take a closer look into the path that got her where she is today and what the future might hold 5 or 10 years from now.
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Seth Godin calls these the REAL SKILLS for today’s workers.
We agree and it’s the basis of our coaching conversations.
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Linchpin behaviors…we all have them. Helping young leaders get early and simple wins and develop a small amount of discipline may in fact land them in the place you’d love to see them get to. Focus on the behavior before the behavior.
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Stef Rowe LMHC offers up eight areas to consider assessing for the Whole Person before going to professional counseling.
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This conversation is for leaders who are at great churches who have a history and legacy and want to add women to an all-male team. Senior Pastor Mark Chitwood joins, Teaching Pastor and Elder, Stef Rowe to tell the Stonebridge story of adding women to their preaching schedule and elder board.
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It’s always good to remember that we were all a younger generation once.
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Getting fired from a job is often seen as a negative experience, but for young people in their early 20s, it may not be such a bad thing after all. While it may initially feel like a setback, there are plenty of experts who would say otherwise.
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Becky Ykema talks about considerations every senior leader must consider when adding female leaders for the first time to their team. And Dave Miller discovers how bad he is at some of this.
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It’s that time of year…spring-ish…heading towards Easter and their internship or leadership residency is coming to a close in just a few months. It’s time to make an offer for full-time ministry for them to join your team. Is this a finish line or a starting line? It’s both! And we should honor both of those milestones in this new leader's life.
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While we get asked to do summer-long or year-long engagements, we have chosen to let those go and focus on two years. We get asked by churches as well as candidates about the two-year thing.
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“I can’t do it. I can’t keep up. Will this ever slow down? Maybe ministry isn’t for me,” began a coaching conversation I recently had. I’ve had a version of this conversation many times as a coach. And I admit I’ve had it many times in my head with myself, too!
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Continual feedback loops rooted in relationships are the best source of feedback. But we still need the official review and here’s why.
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It’s that time of year…summer…heading towards fall and their internship or leadership residency is coming to a close and it’s time to make an offer for full-time ministry on to your team. Is this a finish line or a starting line? It’s both! And we should honor both of those milestones in this new leader's life. Congratulations! They did it. You did it. What are the questions to ask to avoid the pitfalls of making a great situation potentially bad?
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I think a lot of pastors were thrown in the deep end of the pool during their early years in full-time ministry. I get it, ministry is hard when you get started. You have to learn how to swim while getting some water up your nose. I think that kind of development has surely produced some grit in this generation of church leaders, but I think it’s also produced a false assumption that young leaders should be taught the same way.
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Continual feedback loops rooted in relationships are the best source of feedback. But we still need the official review and here’s why.
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Brian Tome of Crossroads talks about what it means to be an Aggressive Leader at our annual Lp kick off.
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One tool we use to help young leaders get perspective we call Data Points. It’s a non-scientific way for a young leader to look back twelve or eighteen months and see objectively how they’ve been doing in key areas.
We mark the data against the timeline (across the bottom) as well as a grading scale of 0-100 vertically.
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This is the first in a four-part series on helping young leaders get through the first year of ministry and helping them take the healthiest steps.
I learned from my long-time friend, Bart Rendel of Intentional Churches, that the best planning is done when in perspective.
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