When it comes down to the core of what makes a team “click” and what makes an organization healthy, trust between the members of the team is critically important.
Creating a Ministry Culture of Trust
How to Create a Culture of Team Community
As a leader your calling is first to your team, to lay down your life for them, care for them, and serve them.
Creating a Team Culture of Commitment by Serving Your People
Children’s ministry is, oddly enough, about much more than children’s ministry. It’s also about serving the people on your team.
Creating a Culture of Commitment Through Communication
When good communication is not in place, your people will feel left out, marginalized, and, worst of all, that you don’t trust them. Here are three ways to practice excellent communication within your ministry organization.
Creating a Team Culture of Commitment Through Vision Casting
When you explain the “why” behind your ministry, people who identify with your vision will “get” it and be passionate about it. They’ll want to join your cause because they care about it.
What Will Make People Love Working With Your Ministry?
What if your team found children's ministry an experience that builds them up, strengthens them spiritually, and leaves them wanting to continue working with the team?
When Ministry is Big and God is Small
I can distinctly remember the moment when I realized that something was off. I was working full time in ministry, studying Scripture regularly for writing a children’s discipleship curriculum, lived in a strong community that was passionate about seeking Jesus, and yet I felt dry…empty…weak. God felt distant. Honestly, my personal walk with Him had slowly dwindled away to almost nothing—all in the midst of ministry. Ministry had replaced God, and it wasn’t enough. I was in and around truth,
Douglas Bond Interview: What Makes Heroic Life Discipleship Unique?
Douglas Bond, author of more than twenty-five books, is Director for the Oxford Creative Writing Master Class, conference speaker, and leader of Church history tours in Europe. Read his interview with Michael Morgan, director of Heroic Life Discipleship.
How Does Sanctification Work?
How do you explain the sanctification process? As we follow Jesus, does God do all the work, while we just sit back and watch? Or do we have a part in our own growth process?
Fuel for Ministry
When Paul wrote his letter to the Christians in Colosse, he talked about his goals for ministry. But he didn’t stop there. He went on to explain what really fueled his work and enabled him to present believers mature in Christ.