Leadership
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
Tony Morgan coming to STL…
In just over a month Tony Morgan will be stopping at Harvester Christian Church as part of his book tour. Tony will be speaking and sharing with us through out the morning. If you have not yet read, Killing Cockroaches, you will want to go out and get it. Or you can just show up [...]
27May2009 | David Mehrle | View Comments | Continued
Quick Communication tips
It’s Wednesday night and we have just finished a great night of ministry with our students. You stand in the gym talking with the last remaining students as they wait for their ride to go home. Time has passed quickly and it is already 9:30 and all of your leaders have left the building. You [...]
18May2009 | David Mehrle | View Comments | Continued
Twitter is more than you think
Great blog article – check out what was written about twitter on nikomas.com
Twitter is starting to take over the world! Because of that I’ve heard a lot of people who have never used it rip on it. Which is fine. I don’t care. I don’t own twitter stock! But most of those people have never [...]
Gather your team
Over the last several weeks I have not been really meeting with my team. I miss these chances to connect and have conversation about what is happening in our ministry area. So, why have I not been meeting? I have been thinking of ways to redesign our team meeting to help make it more effective. [...]
13May2009 | David Mehrle | View Comments | Continued
A new brainstorming method
This past week I met with our team of leaders who devleop the programming side of our services. This is a team of about 8 – 12 people who are either worship leaders or they play some part in the execution of our student services. Over the last year we have been meeting once a [...]
11May2009 | David Mehrle | View Comments | Continued
Shift Conference
While I ponder over whether or not to post the bulk of my notes to this blog. I have decided that instead of posting them and wasting all that energy on this little screen, I will send you to the video links of the sessions. They will be much more entertaining to you. Thanks to [...]
29Apr2009 | David Mehrle | View Comments | Continued
Gospel responsibility
In my reading today I came across the following verse:
“On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised.”
In Galatians we find Paul speking about shairng with us the process that he has gone through to [...]
Over the last couple of days, I have been reading it by Craig Groeschel. While the book seems to be another leadership book under the same principles that we have read from every other leader in the last ten years, this is still a must read book.
Craig does a great job of communicating several simple [...]
Evaluation
Summer is a great time for youth ministries to evaluate what they have been doing over the last year. Most of us have taken the summer to do different things and to take a break from the things that we are used to doing. Normal programming does not resume until September. However, as we are [...]
18Apr2009 | David Mehrle | View Comments | Continued
Zack,We already have two services. One is contemporary and one is traditional whatever those terms really mean. However, ...
What exactly does this partnership mean? Are you guys having a traditional service and regular? Or did I read ...
I once was asked about if you needed someone to help you change a tire at 2:00 in the morning ...
Nicely written, Dave. Except that I've gotta push you some on number 1. How is it that we ...
Know your community.I see this time and time again, the service is made up of other peoples ideas and what ...
You become thankful for a good pit crew, a spare tire in the trunk, and the jack that you remembered ...
Regretfully, I don't really have as much time as I'd like to read, since college is so demanding, but I ...
That's awesome. Really cool. 
