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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...
TrainedUp Releases Free Security Training Videos For Churches
Jacksonville, FL – November 1, 2018 — TrainedUp, the leading church volunteer training platform, today announced that they have released 27 security training videos, free of charge, to help churches and places of worship prepare for tragedies including active shooter situations. After yet another tragic shooting that occurred in a place of worship over the…
Senior Citizen Hospitalized After Church Greeter Lets Door Hit Her
Destin, FL — A senior citizen at First Methodist Church got the surprise of her life last Sunday morning. The woman, who had attended the church for forty-seven years, took an unexpected trip to the hospital after a new greeter let the door hit her on her way into the sanctuary. Martha Dobbins is in…
Cafe Worker Burns Down Church In Slow Cooker Debacle
Los Angeles, CA — The historic Thirty-First Baptist Church burned down on Sunday afternoon after a cafe volunteer inadvertently turned a slow cooker into a highly pressurized death machine. No one was hurt in the fire, but sources say that this is not the first incident related to a volunteer worker mishap. As some members…
Starting a Special Needs Ministry for Children in Your Church: Planning for it and Training Your People
While I can definitely relate to wanting to run out of kid’s classrooms at times, Judah’s particular situation was different. He dealt with Sensory Processing Disorder and select developmental delays, which is a complex way of saying that he was still working on his communication skills and had a hard time with things that overwhelmed…
3 Big Lessons that Pastors Should Learn from Casey Neistat About Influence
Casey had been on YouTube long before I found him. In fact, I think I found him right after he hit 5 million subscribers on his YouTube channel. He now has over 10,000,000 subscribers (and likely thousands more by the time you read this). With that many followers, you could say that Casey has some…
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…
Where 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…
Church 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…
How 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…
