Are you planting a new church? Following God’s call to start a new church is a heroic task and I have a standing offer to give you more than $85.00 in church planting resources for FREE! Your free resources include: The Call of a Church Planter ($23.95 Value) Funding Your Church Plant ($23.95 Value) Launching Large ($13.95 Value) Starting Small … Read More
Merry Christmas
Since I’m pretty sure that there won’t be too many of you reading my blog over the next couple of days, I wanted to pause today to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas. As for my own family, Kelley and I are looking forward to celebrating together with our son Alex. He is about 3 1/2 years old … Read More
Register Today – Fusion Webinar, January 12
I want you to join me on Tuesday, January 12, from 1:00pm – 3:00pm Eastern time for The LIVE Fusion Webinar. This will be my first webinar training of 2010 and it deals with a system (Assimilation) where you can see almost immediate results after even the smallest improvement, so it should get your church off on the right foot … Read More
Don’t Miss the Christmas Sale!
I know most of you are making final preps for your Christmas Eve services, putting the finishing touches on your 2010 preaching calendar or maybe even out and about Christmas shopping, but I wanted to be sure you know about something special that Church Leader Insights is offering right now. Today through January 4th, we’re giving you a chance to … Read More
‘Tis the Season for Upgrading Your Assimilation System
It seems like this is the time of year for you to share what you’ve been learning and putting into practice with me and the Church Leader Insights team. Here’s a note I recently received from Pastor Kevin Yandell, of New Community Christian Church in Morris, Illinois about some of the changes he’s made to his church’s Assimilation System: Hey … Read More
Pressure… A Saturday Quote
“Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it’s because you’ve started to think of failure.” — Tommy Lasorda, baseball manager
Should You Keep Mailing Offering Envelopes?
Any of you who have listened to The Stewardship Seminar or The Stewardship Intensive know that I am a firm believer in creating custom offering envelopes for your church and including them in each week’s program/bulletin. In fact, I shared our latest envelope design from The Journey (including our Christmas Offering info) in a post a few weeks ago (click … Read More
Ignite Ideas – Right on Time!
Among the responses I’ve received to Ignite: How to Spark Immediate Growth in Your Church is this note from Rob Huffman, Senior Pastor of Clearview Church in Chesapeake, Virginia and one of my Coaching Alumni: Nelson, Thanks for the insight in the new book. I read it the first day I got it in about 2 hours. I am already … Read More
What Could You Do with 150+ New People Serving? + Free Downloads
One of the new resources we released in 2009 is The Ministry Seminar. It is our newest systems seminar and it’s all about getting the maximum possible number of volunteers involved in serving at your church. Here’s a recent email I received from my good friend Roy Mansfield, Small Groups Pastor at Northstar Church in Panama City, Florida (and former … Read More
First Time Guests that Can’t Wait to Come Back
The Church Leader Insights team and I love to read your email about how God is using what we do to help you lead your churches and reach the unchurched. Here’s one such email I received recently from Pastor Al Marks and asked if I could share with you: I have to tell you a story from Sunday. A young … Read More