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Want more volunteers?
Posted on 26. Mar, 2012 by Kenny.
In the Fall, I have the honor of speaking at the Institute of Children’s Ministry ICM in North Carolina and became friends with Jason Vernon, a pastor in North Carolina’s research triangle. Although he is a senior pastor, he’s a huge advocate for Children’s Ministry. I happend to be on his church’s website today and I saw something I really liked. His church, RTP Community Church is not a huge church. Rather, it represents the demographic of most churches in the United States. However, I was highly impressed by how they manage their volunteer process on their website.
It reminded me of Jim Wideman’s principles as illustrated in his book STRETCH. If you’ll organize your systems, you’re only preparing yourself and making capacity for growth. If you want more volunteers, you have to prepare yourself to handle them. That’s what I saw on the RTP Community Church website.
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Blue Like Jazz blacklisted
Posted on 25. Mar, 2012 by Kenny.
Yesterday I posted what may be taken as a harsh critique of Christian media. I do realize that personal opinion and preference is often going to play into critiques, so no one is entirely objective (including myself). There have been a handful of Christian movies, many Christian books and scores of Christian songs that have impacted me, and still do. I think I’m just excited about a fresh perspective in the “Christian” genre. There is certainly room for others, right?
What probably prompted yesterday’s post and my passion was probably the frustration I felt when reading a post by Steve Taylor on Donald Miller’s blog which was late picked up by Christianity Today.
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My Blog is moving
Posted on 28. Apr, 2011 by Kenny.
I know I have lots of loyal readers out there. It has been 4 great years but I wanted to wait till Orange to announce that I am moving my blog to samluce.com If you could adjust your feedreaders I would appreciate it.
Thanks,
Kenny… Read the rest
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Have you used pre-designed thermal labels?
Posted on 13. Oct, 2010 by Kenny.
Just a quick question for you. Have you ever used pre-printed color labels for computer check-in?
I’m not talking about solid color labels you can get instead of white, but maybe a white label with our ministry label already printed on it in full color? I don’t think I’d be able to use it in our Children’s Ministry since we print both name tags as well as security tags. However, our guest services team is thinking about using Fellowship One to print name tags for their volunteers and they’s really prefer not to use a generic solid color tag, especially white. Has anyone else done this with the thermal labels?
One way I’m thinking about doing this is kind of a hack.… Read the rest
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Orange Week 2.0 comes to an end!
Posted on 05. Oct, 2010 by Kenny.
Wow, this has been incredible! In the past 7 days, dozens of bloggers have published somewhere around 100 posts about the Orange Strategy. Simply amazing! Of the 100ish post, almost all were significant pieces of the conversation revolving around ministry to families. It was almost like we had a mini Orange Conference on the web. I know that I was challenged, encouraged and given plenty to think about. A big thank you to all of you who participated!
Speaking of the Orange Conference, did you know that you can register today. Do it NOW!
For those of you who are thinking about attending the Orange Conference in 2011, I’m going to give you 5 reason today why you should attend.… Read the rest
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Adapting adult services for kids
Posted on 03. Oct, 2010 by Kenny.
For the last 20 months, our church has hosted a Sunday evening service designed for Christ-followers called Deepen. Over time this service has just lost momentum and currently we’re exploring other opportunities to engage more people who want to take next-steps in deepening their relationship with God. One of the challenges to this situation is that we’ve stopped offering programs for elementary aged kids during many of the deepen services, mostly because there wasn’t enough support from those who attend. We felt that not offering an elementary program would be best for these services, especially if we could adapt components of the adult services for kids.
So, a few weeks ago we held an “All-Pray” service where the evening was dedicated to prayer.… Read the rest
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Location-based networking
Posted on 27. Sep, 2010 by Kenny.
Today all the buzz is location-aware tools and software. Where you are and who you’re around is what counts. Whether you’re playing foursquare, gowalla or using facebook’s new “check-in” feature, you’ve seen the benefits of this trend. Maybe you’ve just been playing the game and haven’t actually noticed the benefits, but you’ve seen the potential (kinda like when you first started using twitter). Well, it’s no different with ministry. Where you are and who you’re around is so hugely important. I think one of the biggest misses for ministry leaders is when they do ministry for years and never truly connect into the larger ministry community around them. Sure you can drive down the street and knock on every church door you see, or you can use the tools available to you online.… Read the rest
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Question to you: When do you recruit?
Posted on 22. Jul, 2010 by Kenny.
I’ve been talking to my team about a big volunteer push. More than likely we’re going to do a 2-3 week push in October which I expect will be pretty good. A few years ago we did a really big push in January which was very well received. However, when have you found to be the most effective time to recruit volunteers? I know a lot of people like to do April and May volunteer drives so they’re all screened, trained and ready for the fall. What has worked best for you?
Tell me your story. What’s the most creative or effective thing you’ve done to recruit a boatload of new volunteers? What made it so successful? I’d love to hear some new and creative ideas and strategies that we can implement as we recruit.… Read the rest
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Some things have to wait…
Posted on 29. May, 2010 by Kenny.
I’ve got an unbelievable schedule for the next 4-5 weeks. This just released this week. Looks like I’m going to have to wait until I’m not so busy…
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