Building Better Partnerships
Brad Lomenick: Want to grow your organization, product or initiative? Cultivate the fine art of colloaboration.
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Church Planting, Part 3: Generating a Buzz
From mailers to service projects, what helped these church planters from across the country get the word out to their communities?
Maximize Your Best Resource
Bobby Gruenewald: "Ninety percent of the people who visit a church for the first time go because a friend invited them."
Church Planting, Part 1: Picking the Launch Date
8 church planters describe their prelaunch process and how they chose when to launch
Why Church Members Stay Uninvolved—and How to Change It
Why do so many church members stay uninvolved? The answer isn’t always laziness. Learn the three main reasons people don’t serve—and how leaders can help them engage in meaningful ministry.
Church Planting, Part 2: Choosing the Right Site
Church planters discuss how they chose the locations for their launch services and what unique factors about their communities affect their approach to ministry.
Church Planting, Part 4: Planning the Launch
8 veterans of the process recommend: Define success; count the cost; look beyond launch day—and remember to smile.
Soulfires: Crowning Achievement
After years of substance abuse, drug dealing and incarceration, a son of hopelessness encounters the God of hope.
3 Books That Shape My Ministry
Dan Kimball: "What I love about books is that they make us feel we are not alone on this mission."
Are You Scaring Off First-Time Guests?
Tim Peters offers a list of three common mistakes churches often make with first-time guests.
