Leadership
Book Review Monday -Leading on Empty
If you are in ministry you have had those moments where life just seems like an endless routine and you are spinning your wheels going nowhere. You wake up in the morning and head out the door to work more concerned about the task list you did not finish yesterday than you are about what [...]
20Jul2009 | David Mehrle | View Comments | Continued
Rewarding night…
Last night we got to see three of our students step out and lead in our community of churches. They came together for a worship service that they planned and organized which involved several different churches. It went off with out any issues at all. There was a large crowd that showed up and really [...]
20Jul2009 | David Mehrle | View Comments | Continued
Research on reaching the younger generation
Yesterday, this came across my email and as I read through it and thought about what it entails I think we all need to see this. Ed Stetzer recently did a presentation on the Younger Generation and has graciously posted it on his blog. Check it out it will be worth your time.
Read the blog [...]
Book Review – The Principle of the Path
Book Review
“The Principle of the Path” by Andy Stanley
Over the years I have read just about anything that Andy Stanley has written. So, when this book became available I was excited to get it and read it. Andy has always done a good job of writing on leadership and sharing with us from his heart [...]
Recognize the things you value
How many times have you sat in your office wondering why your team just does not seem to get it. Why don’t they understand what you value? I mean really we have talked about in meetings and I have spent hours stressing and struggling over what is most important. Yet, your leaders do not seem [...]
4Jul2009 | David Mehrle | View Comments | Continued
Get out of the Office…
Just a couple of days ago we had an day team meeting where we needed to come up with our fall teaching themes for our Wednesday night program called, .deW. This is program is geared to reaching students who are not attending church on a regular basis and to assist our students in inviting their [...]
2Jul2009 | David Mehrle | View Comments | Continued
Creating Buzz
In a recent blog post by Tony Morgan he made this statement, “In my experience, different creates buzz. And, when there’s buzz, more people are talking about it and inviting their friends.” This caught my attention quite a bit.
I know that in my leadership style and in creating structure in our ministry that we [...]
Must read blog
Just read this over at Mark Batterson’s Blog and it is a must read.
“One of the quantum challenges leaders face is this: as the organizations they lead start experiencing organizational growth they stop experiencing personal growth. Why? Because of the demands of the organizational growth. They start leading the organization and stop leading themselves. And [...]
A Free Lunch
Sponsor appreciation can sometimes be one of the hardest things for many of us to follow through on. Our leaders pour themselves into our ministries and give up countless hours and vacations to minister as part of the church. Yet, we struggle to find ways to just say, “Thank You!” However, even you can do [...]
10Jun2009 | David Mehrle | View Comments | Continued
WEB 2.0 and your ministry
Several months ago our student ministry team got into a conversation about our website. We had what we thought was a pretty good site that truly was not getting much traffic anymore. So, as we debated what we should do and kicked around a lot of different ideas and thoughts before we finally landed on [...]
4Jun2009 | David Mehrle | View Comments | Continued
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