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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 Include Single Women In Your Women's Ministry
Women’s ministries tend to be a microcosm of the larger issue facing churches as a whole. What do we do with the single women? We have groups for mothers with children of every age range, we have groups for retired women, we have niche groups for women who like to craft or be hospitable, but…
17 Bible Verses About Leadership
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. What’s the best leadership book you’ve ever read? There are so many great options, written by a multitude of great…
Free Volunteer Training Videos from TrainedUp
At TrainedUp, we’re passionate about helping the Church equip the saints for ministry. In our three year history, we’ve helped thousands of church leaders train tens of thousands of volunteers. We love being able to walk alongside so many churches to further the Gospel. Today, as part of our mission to help the Church, we’re…
7 Areas Where Storytelling Can Improve Your Church Communications
Storytelling is one of my passions. I’ve written plenty of other blog posts on the topic, and even published a storytelling devotional last year called The Original Storyteller. One of the reasons why I’m so interested in storytelling is because that’s how God has designed each of us. Storytelling may be a recent marketing buzzword,…
Helping Your Church Learn To Read The Bible
here, watch the video below, or keep reading. Kevin Fontenot: Hey. 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 training. And on today’s episode we’re going to be talking about helping your people learn…
6 Prime Communication Opportunities that Churches Are Missing
Church communication is lacking. That may not be true in every church. But it’s a frustrating reality for the vast majority of congregations. Even if your church communicates better than average, there is still plenty that you can do to improve. There is plenty of ground to make up. As church leaders, we aren’t doing…
Introducing Custom Ministry Areas, Branding, Updated Reporting, and New Library Videos
Today we’re excited to announce a few updates to TrainedUp. Our team has been hard at work building out features based on the feedback of our incredible customers. Ministry Area Grouping First up, we’ve added learner grouping to our advanced user management feature. This update allows you to create custom groups to help you better…
How To Set Goals For Your Church That You Will Actually Achieve
here, watch the video below, or keep reading. Kevin Fontenot: Hey, 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 all things related to church leadership, development, discipleship, and training. And, today I’m really excited about the topic that we’re gonna be…
5 Simple Ways to Prepare Your Church for Mothers Day
The day of days approacheth! No, I’m not a numerologist predicting the return of Jesus. I’ll be steering clear of that silliness, thank you very much. I mean Mother’s Day! It’s a big deal, not just for moms, but for churches, too. Is your church ready to make the most of it? Pastors have a…
