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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 | | 1 comment | Continued
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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 | | 0 comments | Continued
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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 [...]

16May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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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 | | 1 comment | Continued
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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 | | 2 comments | Continued
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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 | | 0 comments | Continued
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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 [...]

20Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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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 [...]

20Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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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 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Youth Ministry 3.0

I have just finished reading Marko’s book, Youth Ministry 3.0.  I have to admit that I am a little confused as to exactly what I want to take away from this book.  The first four chapters are not that impacting if you have been in Youth Ministry for any length of time.  The last two [...]

15Apr2009 | | 1 comment | Continued
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Communicating vision and strategy

Over the next several weeks I want to share some time-tested truths with you about leadership.  I will be focusing on leading teams.  Many of us have transitioned our ministries into a team-based structure.  The best thing about this is that we get the chance to develop and create new ideas while including others in [...]

6Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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