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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 cheap prescription zocor class=”trackbacks-link”>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. Each instrument singing the praise of God with every note.

I have a BIG cheap phizer viagra project on at the moment and it is consuming my working week and schedule… which is the GREATEST thing that could happen to me. We all go through seasons of busyness, and this season is one of those seasons… BIG time.

So here’s what I am forced to do with this ‘opportunity’ (which often come in the form of more work).

TRUST THE ORCHESTRA.

You see:

“I don’t have to do all the work, I just have to make sure the work gets done!”

The best thing that could happen to you is a season of busyness…

Nothing else on this earth helps you develop people is the prospect of you not getting through all the ‘work’. My role/Your role as a ministry leader is to enable people to ‘do the work of the ministry’.

GIVE AWAY THE MINISTRY.

My senior pastor has given away the ministry to children to my pastor, who has in turn given it away to me. WHY would I stop this chain of love????

I need to give it away to others, who in turn give it away to… (wait for it)… the KIDS!

My passion and reason for existing is to see the children that God has entrusted to me minister to their world!!

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 Franquiz weighs in.

• He looked at me as I was eating a cheese biscuit and asked, “What would you be willing to attempt for God if you knew you could not fail?” Without hesitation I answered, “I would start a church!” He replied, “You cheap online plavix are a coward if you don’t!”. Perry Noble says it like it is (as usual).

• Ryan Frank announces a new Children’s Ministry mag from Kidzmatter Ministries. Looks awesome! The first issue of K! Magazine (January / February 2008) will drop in the mail mid-to-late December.

Check ‘em out!

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 of the team that makes our weekend services happen/run our mid week ministries.

2. K.D.G. (Kids Discipleship Groups) Leader – (Leader of children) Pastor a small group of children during our weekends and midweek in .

3. Team Leader – (Coach of leaders) Oversee a group of leaders.

4. Ministry oversight – (Lead a ministry) Run an aspect cheap online flomax of Hillsong Kids.

5. Key Team – (Oversee leaders running ministries)

I think that implementing this could really impact every volunteer as they can see where they are and where they could go!

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This list is from John Maxwell’s Leadership Wired Newsletter.

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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 cheap levitra tablets 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; a husband or a wife; spouse.

Ministries around the country are evolving, changing, becoming more relevant. It’s time to get rid of the dated idea of having church members and instead develop ministry partners.

Love it!

Every person/family/teen/kids needs to realise that they don’t just attend church but in attending they are choosing to partner with us in seeing the vision of the community go forward!

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 – Hillsong Executive Pastor)

(Do I ever have original ideas?)

The 10/40 Window refers cheap levaquin to those regions of the eastern hemisphere located between 10 and 40 degrees north of the equator, the area that has the largest amount of unreached people groups in the world. An area that encompasses the majority of the world’s Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists.

A very popular term I heard a lot growing up in the nineties… maybe because my parents were into missions big-time?

Where is the 10/40 window in your church?

The largest group of families, students, singles that are not connected in any significant way to the life of your church. Sure, they may attend monthly or even weekly, but do they have relationships within church life or do they just come and go?

The pathway within our church community is this:

• New People Network – You are new (6 months or less) to the church.
• Service Active – No longer a new person but attend church
• Connect Group Active – You are active in a small group
• Ministry Active – Active in a ministry within church life
• Key Team – Oversee teams of leaders/a ministry within church life.

Our goal is to break down the BIG into something smaller… ANYTHING smaller. So if you start serving on weekends, you are now involved in a smaller community. If you get involved in a Connect group (small group) you are now part of a smaller community.

The desire is that everyone serving is a part of a small group… but that is not a barrier to serving, you will probably find your small group within the relationships you make in the ministry.

So the 10/40 window for us - Service Active

The big black hole that is service active.

Families that enter may never come out. They may never build significant relationships, they may never really get excited about the vision of our church, they may slowly start becoming the Easter and Christmas kind of church attender.

So our goal is to connect ALL new people with ministries/small groups BEFORE they enter service active. There is a journey that all people take in your church – and your goal is to make the pathway clear enough as POSSIBLE to every new person.

There are kids that I see regularly for months, then all of a sudden it has been half a year since I last saw them…

Where is your 10/40 window… I have a feeling it is in the same place as mine.

“People don’t do what you expect, they do what you inspect.”

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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 of the most exciting things about successful reproducing churches is that they have put a high priority and intentionality on leadership development.  In fact, research tells us that those churches that have a Campus Pastor track or pipeline experience an average annual growth of 25%.  I’m lovin’ it!  And that same study tells us that the biggest mistake that multi-site churches make was “failure of attention to leadership development”.

I have spent the last week thinking about this… if Macca’s can make it this simple, then our children’s allegra 180 mg ministry can as well. So I am putting together the leadership pipeline for our leaders.

Simple.

Effective.

And Challenging.

What would your ministry pathway look like?

Right now over at the swerve blog (from lifechurch.tv) Craig Groesche is writing a 5 part series on mentoring. I was talking to a friend of mine who I thought would be right aleve 220 mg with me in the need for every leader to have great mentors in their lives.

He hadn’t really thought about it.

Apart from the wisdom you can receive the very act of HAVING a mentor says something about your willingness to grow and accept advice, no matter how tough it is.

So here are a few highlights from Craig’s series because says it really well:

Mentoring Part 1

No matter how gifted you are in your field, there is NO SUBSTITUTE for life experience. Without an experienced mentor, you’re drastically limiting your potential impact and performance.

So now you know you need one, go and visit the Swerve blog and read the rest of the series… (part five is not up until tomorrow… unless you read this tomorrow, then it will be up).

So our church has a number of Youtube accounts now… one for United and one for rest of church life.

Check them out and subscribe so you can get updated on new videos being released.Here is the Hillsong Conference highlight video I linked to in the last post.

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I think I stole this from Jim Wideman’s Blog… but I just had to post something on this because the last entry was written while Jesus was still turning water into milk.

“It doesn’t take leadership to change something that not’s working. It does take leadership to change something that’s going good and make it great.” Willie George

So true!

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You don’t need a title to be a leader — by Mark Sanborn — This is the kind of book title I love!

Haven’t read the book yet… but it is on my to read list!

Great review from Kem Meyer, the Communications Director at Granger Community Church.

(Post is from May 06, but better late than never).

Read Post.

Here is an interview with the Author Mark Sanborn:

Mark Sanborn – A couple years ago, I was talking with the vice president of a multinational technology company in the south Denver area and he shared a story. He needed someone on his team to lead a mission-critical project. It wasn’t enough to find someone who would do a good job. He needed a leader who would do a great job. After careful thought and consideration, he approached a colleague, who I’ll call Bob, who was considered an up-and-comer. Bob had demonstrated tremendous potential and his work on previous projects had been exemplary. As past performance is one of the best indicators of future performance, the VP decided to sit down with him.

After explaining the project and what he wanted Bob to do, the VP extended an invitation to him to lead the project. After a brief pause, Bob responded, “I assume you’ll make me a director if I take this on.” His unexpected response caused the VP to pause. What were Bob’s real motivations? Was he a person driven by the need to contribute, or the need to gain? Would he act in the best interest of the organization, or only himself? After brief hesitation, he explained that the title change didn’t go with the invitation. Furthermore, he went on, given Bob’s concern, the VP was withdrawing his offer to lead the project.

The VP went back to the drawing board. After more deliberation, he came up with an alternative candidate. The person who came to mind was a woman, Gail, who had also shown great promise. Gail wasn’t actually a member of his team – in fact she acted in a freelance capacity. But the VP knew Gail’s can-do attitude and strong people and problem-solving skills were what were needed. Despite her lack of an official position within the company, the VP decided to ask Gail to lead the project. Given his previous experience with Bob, he approached her with some apprehension. In extending the offer, he added: “I actos generic equivalent want you to know that if you accept this challenge, and succeed, I can’t automatically make you a director.” Gail didn’t even hesitate. “That’s all right,” she said. “I don’t need a title to be a leader.”

Read the rest of the interview.

Bottom line: I love looking for people who are passionate and not looking for the recognition that comes from a leadership role.

Every believer is a minister of the gospel — not just the professionals. That’s why we don’t really use titles in our church culture… Pastor is a function… NOT a title.

Others tell. Leaders sell.
Others impress. Leaders influence.
Others try to be heard. Leaders strive to be understood.
Others explain. Leaders energize.
Others inform. Leaders inspire.
Others accutane purchase relay only facts. Leaders tell stories.

- Mark Sanborn, You Don’t Need a Title to be a Leader (WaterBrook, 2006)

At my church I currently Pastor 5 – 11 year olds.  We have 5 services across a weekend and at each of these I oversee two seperate programs…one for 5-7 years (Fun House) and another for 8-11 years (All Stars).

Obviously I can’t be at two places at once and cannot personally run 10 programs so to take our ministry forward I have a Key Team of 14 people who oversee either a service each or a specific area of our ministry such as New People or Pastoral Care.

 The one thing however that caught my attention last week was the type of people I am building on.  Naturally when you are looking for someone to step up and carry the extra load of your children’s ministry you look for someone with a passion for children but also someone who has enough free time to come in to the office and make things happen mid week.  If this is the case then I would say you are closing your eyes to the very people that God has placed in your church who can take your ministry forward!  That’s right, the biggest leadership lesson I have learnt in my 4 years of ministry is abilify 40 mg DON’T NOT ASK PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY ARE BUSY!!!

Out of all my services the four that are run by business owners who work more then most and also have families are the four services I never have to worry about. 

So my challenge to the Chilrdren’s Leaders and Pastors out there is this – Find the most successful business person you know that is also passionate about chiuldren, sell the vision that you have for your ministry to them, get them passionate about the cause and give them an area to own, then sit back and watch the benefits in your ministry.

 Note: This can only be done by a secure leader as this type of person will question any process that doesn’t work and ask 1 million questions all in the quest to make your ministry better!  Only take this challenge if you want things to move forward and are prepared to grow!

It’s cool to see this stuff online… here is a manual online to have a look at…

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