by johnh | Jan 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
By John Harrell Details and Deadlines I once served in a ministry that involved managing lots of details on tight deadlines across long days, occasionally for weeks at a time. Not long into that period, some of the people on my team came to me and said, “We love you;...
by Kat Bair | Aug 22, 2022 | Big Ideas, Blog
We’ve all been in a council meeting, team huddle, or quarterly review where it seems like everyone is so afraid of having a real conversation that nothing gets said. Platitudes and polite deference can keep us from making real progress by glossing over points of...
by Kat Bair | May 10, 2022 | Blog, Client Stories
If someone called you today and offered your ministry two pregnant sows, a boar, and around 50 chickens, what would you do? I can’t speak for your animal husbandry expertise personally, but it seems the vast majority of ministry leaders and innovators would never even...
by Kat Bair | Mar 16, 2022 | Blog
Getting to 100 Million Two years ago, I sat across from the Executive Director of the foundation for a large, downtown church. His office was on the 22nd floor of a towering steel and glass bank building and felt very much like a place for successful people to build...
by Kenda Creasy Dean | Sep 4, 2018 | Blog
I spent so long groping for the right words to describe “missional innovation” (I still don’t like the phrase) that it’s easy to feel like no one else in the church “speaks” this language. It goes by many handles: Christian social innovation, faith-based...
