[Kid Inspiration]

“If there’s one thing I just don’t have time for, it’s delegation”…
No one would admit to agreeing with that statement, but we can often act like it. There are too many people sitting in churches doing nothing, that will find their purpose by serving children. Ask and keep on asking, knock and keep on knocking…
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Pastor of CityLife church in Brisbane Mark Conner has a blog you should check out. Latest post is about speaking in the Kidshaper Conference, in Melbourne.

There is nothing like pressure to bring out the real person inside.
All it takes is a couple more tasks added to your plate to make you realise that this ‘ministry thing’ you have devoted your life to is far too big for a one man band.
Ministry is an orchestra. Each member playing their part. [...]

There have arisen of late a number of most excellent writings upon this interweb I would like to point out to my most wonderful of vistors to this blog:

Sermons Motivate, but Systems Dictate. Is a ’system’ for ministry a bad thing… not if the system serves YOU and not the other way round. Bob [...]

This is a follow-up post to McDonalds and Leadership
I have been developing the pipeline we could use for our ministry… here is the first draft if you will…
Hillsong Kids Leadership Pipeline:
A simple way to explain to emerging leaders how they could continue to expand their influence.
1. Hillsong Kids Leader – (Apprentice leader) Be a part [...]

9 Things You Simply Must Do for Success
Principle #1 – Dig It Up
Principle #2 – Pull the Tooth
Principle #3 – Play the Movie
Principle #4 – Do Something
Principle #5 – Act Like an Ant
Principle #6 – Hate Well
Principle #7 – Don’t Play Fair
Principle #8 – Be Humble
Principle #9 – Upset the Right People
This list is from [...]

Scott Williams posts over at the Swerve.tv Blog.
Should we get rid of church members and begin to develop ministry partners?
member – a person, animal, plant group, etc., that is part of a society, party, community, taxon, or other body.
partner – a person who shares or is associated with another in some action or endeavor; associate; [...]

Evan Doyle over at the Way We See It Blog, posted about the 10/40 window yesterday. Now I am not accusing him of anything here, but I was thinking of posting some thoughts about that very topic at least two days ago.
So here my take on the 10/40 window (stolen in part from Joel A’Bell [...]

 
“People don’t do what you expect, they do what you inspect.”
 
That’s all I really want to say on that.

Dave Ferguson over at his blog posted this last week about the leadership lesson he learned at McDonalds.
He noted a poster describing the seven-step career path that McDonalds offers.
This is a great lesson for all companies and churches!  You need a career path or a leadership pipeline and leaders need to know about it! One [...]