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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...
How To Create The Perfect Volunteer Page On Your Church Website
Your website is one of the best tools you have for connecting with new people and to get your existing members to take their next step. Having a great volunteer or serve page on your website helps in both cases! For potential first time visitors, a volunteer or serve page communicates that your church isn’t…
How To Become A Data Informed Church
here or keep reading. Kevin Fontenot: Hey there, I’m Kevin Fontenot and I’m here with Scott Magdelain. We’re your hosts of the Thriving Ministry Teams podcast, where we talk about all things related to church leadership, discipleship, and training. Kevin Fontenot: On today’s episode we’re gonna be talking about tracking church metrics and analytics, and this…
How to Write Video Training Scripts for Ministry Volunteers
Of course, most of the training you do has been in person. Maybe you’ve had new team members shadow you or someone else on your team. Maybe you’ve created a handbook or manual for volunteers. Maybe you’ve even had special training meetings for your team. My hunch is that none of that has been very…
17 Free Church Leadership Training Materials
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. Leadership development has a resource challenge. There are thousands and thousands of resources, but it’s hard to find good ones…
How Charlotte Assembly of God Recruited 40 New Volunteers In One Day!
We’re happy to welcome Olivia O’Connor to the TrainedUp blog. Olivia is the Director of Teams and Development at Charlotte Assembly of God in Charlotte, Michigan. The church staff and I constantly found ourselves in a never-ending cycle of asking the SAME people to serve, over and over again. It seemed like we had the…
The Art of Delegating And Leading Your Team Well
here, watch the video below, or keep reading. Kevin Fontenot: Hey there. I’m Kevin Fontenot, and I’m here with Scott Magdalein. We’re your hosts of the Thriving Ministry Team’s podcast, where we’re talking about everything related to church leadership, development, and discipleship. And on today’s episode, we’re going to do kind of a followup of…
6 Places to Find Children’s Church Lessons Quickly
Children are important, because the Church is always only one generation from disappearing. As church leaders, we have to communicate the Gospel to the youth in our community. It’s our responsibility to steward our faith into the future. Jesus modeled this when he said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder…
How To Recognize And Avoid Burnout For Ministry Leaders
here, watch the video below, or keep reading. Kevin Fontenot: Hey there. I’m Kevin Fontenot, and I’m here with Scott Magdalein. We’re your hosts of the Thriving Ministry Team’s podcast, where we talk about all things related to church leadership, discipleship, and training. Kevin Fontenot: I’m really excited about today’s episode, and if you’re watching…
How to Do Childrens Ministry Training and 12 Topics to Cover
Train your children’s volunteers with TrainedUp. Use our pre-made children’s ministry training videos or record your own. Build your children’s ministry volunteer team with online training that fits their schedule. Try TrainedUp by ServeHQ today. I talk to pastors and ministry leaders every week. The most common training challenge in almost every church I speak with…
