by Ron Edmondson | Apr 13, 2021 | Church Leadership, Pastoral Burnout
I have some suggestions for pastors (or leaders) when they lose a good team member. This post came to me the hard way. It came after hanging out with one of my favorite people I had ever worked with. I hated when we parted ways professionally. Let’s be honest,...
by Ron Edmondson | Mar 30, 2021 | Church Leadership
There are some common ways to lose favor with leadership. Now before that sounds arrogant, please know I can be pretty hard on senior leadership. Having been in such a position for over 30 years, I know the bad side of senior leadership. I’ve witnessed it and, in full...
by Ralph Moore | Mar 16, 2021 | Church Leadership, Church Planting, Outreach and Evangelism
I met an interesting congregation on one of my teaching trips. They call themselves “The Oregon Community.” They were a recent church plant with an intense focus on meeting the needs of their local community. Outgrowing a rented facility gave a whole new opportunity...
by Steve Sjogren | Aug 12, 2020 | Church Revitalization, Outreach and Evangelism, Servant Evangelism, Small Church / Rural Church
John Chapman, aka the legendary “Johnny Appleseed”, was a missionary who reached out to Native Americans in the Ohio Valley in the early 1800s. He Had Simple Tools His primary planting tool was a stick! Do you have a stick? When his current stick wore out he found a...
by Steve Sjogren | Aug 3, 2020 | Outreach and Evangelism, Servant Evangelism
“We will start just as soon as we have the financing to do so.” It may seem reasonable to place this caveat on your projects, but such thinking is not reasonable. Most of what is done in the Name of God is accomplished by unreasonable people. Simply begin doing...
