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Pastor Gift Guide for Christmas: What To Get Your Pastor
It’s Christmastime and that means many things…Advent services, meals, volunteering, and gift giving. In your planning for gifts, you’ll be considering plenty of people, but don’t forget your pastor. Christmas is a great time to show your pastor your love and appreciation for him and...
Creating an Onboarding Process That Engages
Great ministries have great onboarding processes. If you want people engaged from the start, clear and simple next steps are absolutely necessary. In this video, I show you how to create an onboarding process that engages new people at the peak of their interest. It’s that moment, right after they’ve filled out an interest card…
Feature Updates for Summer 2022
We’ve been working hard all Spring to make ServeHQ better for you. We’ve fixed lots of bugs and rolled out a handful of awesome feature updates and additions, too. I recorded a video showing you how everything new works. Watch it below. Video Walkthrough of Feature Updates List of New or Updated Features Billing receipts…
Learning Styles and How Your Ministry Can Use Them to Enhance Your Training
Take advantage of every learning style with TrainedUp. Use our pre-made training videos or record your own. Build your unique training program with online training that fits their schedule. Try TrainedUp by ServeHQ today. God designed people to learn in so many unique and wonderful ways. You might have seen a child shine when they listen…
How Substance Church and Peter Haas Tackle Growth Track in a New, Innovative Way
Substance Church in Minneapolis moved their Growth Track process online with the help of TrainedUp a couple years ago. Now, instead of using up valuable people resources for meetings with poor attendance, they can simply enroll people in an online course that lets them watch at their own pace. What I absolutely love about their…
MaryAnn Sibley: The Final, Rare Facet of Healthy Ministry Leadership
That’s the bigger thing, not to be available. So then that’s when the really cool things happen. And there will always be, what are the things that only I can and should be doing on Sunday? And everything else should be delegated. Scott from ServeHQ:What would that be? So if you’ve got all of your…
Top Three Areas of Training for New Children’s Ministry Volunteers
I often lurk on Facebook Groups for ministry leaders. It’s an incredible space for co-learning with peers and those who take advantage of those groups are ahead of the game. It’s like an ongoing peer-learning workshop. Last week, someone asked “What are the top three things a new volunteer in children’s ministry should be trained…
Announcing the BuildUp Planner
Our mission is to help ministry leaders unite believers to develop more and better disciples. That mission is a combination of Matthew 28 and Ephesians 4. I believe that software can be a significantly valuable component to accomplish that mission. Our software helps leaders train, equip, engage, and empower their people to make disciples. We’ve…
MaryAnn Sibley: Church Volunteer Team Health and Volunteer Culture
This is a transcript from my conversation with MaryAnn Sibley about team structure, volunteer health, and church volunteer culture. MaryAnn founded MatterSpark to help ministry leaders build and lead healthy volunteer teams. Watch the rest of this hour-long conversation on our YouTube channel. First topic I want to talk about is, a couple of years…
Increase Engagement in Your TrainedUp Courses in Four Steps
You’ve created a great TrainedUp course, now it’s time to get your people learning. This is where the rubber meets the road. Will your people actually enroll in your course, watch the videos, answer your questions, and complete the course you need them to complete? We’ve helped more than 150,000 volunteers and leaders complete courses…
