by Jeff Hoglen | Apr 7, 2025 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
When it comes to church planting, most leaders ask, “Where should we plant?” or “How do we fund it?” But those are secondary questions. The first—and most important—question is this: Who’s on your team? Because when the right people are in the room, the vision becomes...
by Jeff Hoglen | Feb 10, 2025 | Church Growth, Church Health, Featured
Let me paint you a picture: It’s Tuesday morning, and your leadership team is sitting around a table covered in coffee cups and half-eaten breakfast pastries. Someone mentions an upcoming event, and suddenly, you realize half the team is thinking of a fall...
by Ron Edmondson | Jan 22, 2025 | Church Leadership
Leader, do you realize what you communicate when you don’t communicate as a leader? I was talking once with a staff member of a large church. She consistently feared the stability of her job, because she never knew what her pastor was thinking. She was considering...
by Ron Edmondson | Jul 10, 2024 | Church Leadership
I try to be a leader of leaders. I love, welcome and appreciate followers, but as much as possible I want to lead people who are going to lead. I’ve been asked the difference in being a leader of leaders and leading followers. It’s one of my favorite questions. The...
by Ron Edmondson | Apr 10, 2024 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
There are some things visionary leaders hate to hear. They make us cringe. Mostly because they distract the team from the vision and from being healthy attempting to achieve it. Visionary leaders hate to hear: “We’ve never done it that way before.”...