Student Ministry
When to submit to leadership
After more than a year of being without, we have just recently hired a new senior leader. The excitement is high and everyone is looking to the future to see where we are headed and what the church will look like in a couple of years. Outside the church and even a little inside the [...]
25Aug2009 | David Mehrle | View Comments | ContinuedCollaboration with your team
With a new Sr. Minister starting we have a lot of people getting exctied about where they need to be in order to funciton more efficiently. Especially in the area of worship on Sunday morning. Our previous minister was not worried about themeing out a worship service or even creating any sort of creative elements. [...]
19Aug2009 | David Mehrle | View Comments | ContinuedTwo great reads
Over the last week I have read a couple of blogs that have been really good and I want to share them with you.
“Top Ten Leadership Lessons”
Relational YM Jacko Style
The Energy Bus
The Energy Bus
by John Gordon
This book had me wanting to change the way I live in so many different ways. In life we struggle with negativity all the time and are often stuck in the middle of conversations that cause us have negative feelings. We wake up dreading going to work. We struggle with [...]
28Jul2009 | David Mehrle | View Comments | ContinuedGet 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 | ContinuedCreating 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 [...]
Must read blog
“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 that is when the blessing turns into a curse. Growth will grind to [...]
26Jun2009 | David Mehrle | View Comments | ContinuedCamp is here
I am finally relaxing now that we are into day two. At this point everything should run fairly smooth other than we have had over 5 inches of rain in the last 24 hours. Thankfully it has been pretty clear during free time.
If you have ever had the chance to be in charge [...]
Graduation
This is one of those time of years where everything gets really crazy as you are planning for summer and getting people signed up for different events. Then you add the recruiting of leaders for those events. This time of year always brings one other element that just makes the weekends unlike any [...]
7Jun2009 | David Mehrle | View Comments | Continued



