The FREE “How to Make 2012 Your Best Year Ever Conference Call” Will you join me for a FREE “Senior Pastors Only” Conference Call on Tuesday? We’ll jump-start the New Year together on this “first of its kind” conference call where I’ll teach you the skills you need to maximize your leadership and make 2012 your Best Year Ever! After coaching over 1,000 … Read More
New Eyes For A New Year – What Are New People Seeing At Your Church?
2012 is here, and this year’s “MUST HAVE” resource is The Assimilation Seminar! Here’s why: Every week, God entrusts our churches with First Time Guests, and your preparation and capacity to be a good steward of those guests will largely determine how quickly your church will grow this year. Since these people and families will be attending your church at … Read More
Tender is the Night – A Saturday Quote
‘The change came a long way back – but at first it didn’t show. The manner remains intact for some time after the morale cracks.’ F Scott Fitzgerald, ‘Tender is the Night’
How to Responsibly Handle Your Church People’s Vital Information
As you may know, one of the hallmarks of my Assimilation System – for integrating newcomers into the life of your church – is the weekly use of a Connection Card. This is an information card that is filled out each week by everyone in attendance and includes contact info on one side and next steps and sign-ups on the … Read More
Black Friday Sale – Church Leader Insights
It’s official – I am stuffed from yesterday’s turkey and enjoying the day with Kelley and Alex. But I thought I’d let you know that we decided to join in on this year’s Black Friday Sale. The team at CLI convinced me to ADD SOME NEW DEALS to our on-going Thanksgiving sale. So I’ve added in Intensive Workshops and Package Deal resources for $100.00 OFF….but those … Read More
What Your Church can Learn from a Broadway Show
Have you ever been to a Broadway show? It’s Jason Hatley here, Pastor of Worship Arts at The Journey. Our Journey office in New York City is right in the heart of Times Square. Literally, whenever I walk down “the great white way” to go to our office I pass three of the big shows that are currently playing. If … Read More
How Do You Minister to Youth through Your Small Groups?
This is Kerrick Thomas – Executive Pastor at The Journey Church and co-author of “Activate” with Nelson. Nelson asked me to address a common small group question today on the blog. The question is “How can we minister to youth through the Small Groups System?” When it comes to youth and semester-based Activate small groups I’ve seen it work effectively in two ways: 1 … Read More
Should You Make September 11 A “Big Day” at Your Church?
With the 10 year anniversary of 9/11, I’ve gotten quite a few questions about whether or not you should try to make it a “Big Day” and I wanted to address that today. I don’t like making it a Big Day for a few reasons: 1) It’s not the best time to kick off a new series for most people. … Read More
Prayer Request – Beach Baptism Today!
Just a quick prayer request post this morning: I’m getting ready to head out later today to The Journey’s NYC Beach Baptism – we’ve got over 70 people signed up to be baptized today! That’s a far cry from our first beach baptism in 2002, when the number was… ONE. Please pray for good weather, a good turnout of people … Read More
My Bucket List – Running with the Bulls
Tomorrow I’m teaching on the story of Samson and “How to Live Every Day as if its My Last.” As part of the introduction I’m taking about the strange things that people have on their bucket list. My team came up with one for my list… Happy Saturday! P.S. Yes, that’s Pastor Jason and Pastor Tommy with me!