Posts by Scott Magdalein
3 Key Takeaways From My First Time Guest Experience At A Local Church
I’ve been involved in ministry since I was in high school and have always served in some capacity in my local church. It’s a rare occurrence for me to truly be able to experience church as a first-time guest. This weekend was different. In addition to attending our home church, my wife and I decided…
Read MoreWhere to Start with Church Security Training
In reality, every church needs a security plan that every volunteer is aware of and ready to execute in the case of an emergency. In this post we’re going to answer the who, what, when, and how of training your volunteers for security scenarios like active shooter events and suspicious activity on campus. Who should…
Read MoreChurch Organizational Charts: Benefits, Types, and How to Build One Yourself
Develop your existing and future church leaders with TrainedUp. Use our pre-made leadership development videos or record your own. Build your leadership pipeline with online training that fits their schedule. Try TrainedUp by ServeHQ today. Every church needs an organizational chart. An org chart is a visualization of your entire organization. Org charts are traditionally…
Read MoreHow This Growing Multi-Site Church In New York City Uses TrainedUp To Scale Their Impact
Liberty found that getting people in the same room for training was an almost impossible task. Their volunteers were just too busy with other activities to be able to drop everything they were doing to attend a meeting. Training is one of the areas that has traditionally been tough in a church with multiple locations…
Read MoreHow Summit Church Benefited From Online Training In A Rural Community
As the church has grown, there has naturally been a larger need for volunteers to serve across all of their ministry areas. Kim says that every time they attempted to do in-person training, they always had a difficult time getting volunteers together for their meetings. After hearing about TrainedUp on a podcast, she was instantly…
Read MoreAn Inside Look Into How Volunteers At Substance Church Reacted To Online Training
Does this sound familiar? For all too many churches, a consistent, sustainable training system seems like a pipe dream. That was the case for Kaylee Elrick from Substance Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a multi-site church of 3700. They had attempted to do live training to provide a consistent experience, but the majority of people could…
Read MoreHow Foothills Church Streamlined Their Training Process And Increased Volunteers By 30%
This ability to get everyone trained from the comfort of their own home enabled Foothills to recruit 100 small group leaders with a 30% overall increase in their volunteer base. With the larger number of volunteers, who were also better trained, Foothills saw their largest Wednesday night attendance ever at 551 students — a 77%…
Read MoreChurch Partners & Course Templates: When it Comes to Training, More is More
In early 2017, we redesigned everything from scratch, adding some innovative new tools like record-from-webcam and our streamlined course creator. We also launched our library full of done-for-you video courses that you could use as-is or modify to fit your needs. Now with almost 30,000 leaders and learners experiencing the benefits of online video training…
Read MoreHow To Give And Receive Feedback With Your Church Volunteers
This post has been adapted from episode 16 of our podcast. You can subscribe to the podcast here or read the transcript below. Kevin Fontenot: Hey there, I’m Kevin Fontenot and I’m here with Scott Magdalein. We’re your hosts of the Thriving Ministry Teams Podcast, where we talk about all things related to church leadership, discipleship and…
Read MoreTop 8 Most Effective Church Outreach Ideas for Spring, Summer, and Fall
Outreach initiatives are cross-generational. Millennials and Boomers will engage in an outreach initiative…well, maybe not Gen-Xers, but that’s because the punk rock generation still has issues with institutions and authority. (Kidding!) Not all church outreach ideas are equal. Some outreach is more effective than others. In my experience, the best outreach ideas are ones that…
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