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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...
Announcing New Training for Worship Leaders and Volunteers in the TrainedUp Library
The TrainedUp Library is growing again! We add new training video courses every month to the TrainedUp Library and this month is no different. Last month we announced new training for children’s ministry volunteers focused on child safety and abuse prevention. This month we’re shifting gears to bring you training in our most requested category.…
7 Ways To Get More ROI From Your Sermons
Writing a sermon is an arduous journey. On average, pastors spend 9.5 hours every week writing their sermon for the upcoming Sunday. That is more time than they spend eating during the week. The average pastors spends over 400 hours a year in sermon preparation. With most pastors preaching more than forty times per year,…
My Top Leadership Communication Secret: The Follow-Up
In 2009, I got in way over my head in a new job. I’d been hired as project manager with the Digerati at Life.Church (then LifeChurch.tv). My job was to organize all the digital missions work at Life.Church, keep projects moving forward, and maintain open communication on the team. After my first 6 months, I…
9 Ways To Prevent Child Abuse In Your Children’s Ministry
This video is a sample from the TrainedUp video training library. It’s one module in a 9-part series designed to train volunteers on abuse prevention. Learn more about the TrainedUp Library. Churches Are Spiritually And Morally Responsible Before getting into the legal responsibility of churches when it comes to the wellbeing of minors, let’s talk…
How to Explain Salvation to a Child
Train your children’s ministry volunteers with TrainedUp. Use our pre-made children’s ministry training videos or record your own. Train your children’s ministry team with online training that fits their schedule. Try TrainedUp by ServeHQ today. Kids ask so many questions. Most of those questions are somewhere between cute (“Have you met my imaginary friend?”) and…
Everything You Need to Know to Build Your Ministry with a New Year Emphasis
What you’re going to find in this post: Why the new year is a good time for volunteer teams What to focus on with a new year emphasis How to frame your new year emphasis What next steps to give your team How to measure effectiveness of your emphasis For us, 2017 was a banner…
21 Volunteer Recruiting Ideas For Your Church
Develop your existing and future volunteer 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. I’m a big believer that healthy churches are full of healthy volunteers. After all, we’re called to equip the saints…
11 Free and Cheap Ways to Show Genuine Gratitude To Your Team
I was spending some time with a senior pastor a while back. Our kids were playing together and we chatted while we watched. While we were talking, I asked him what he planned to do for his team for Thanksgiving this year. I was hoping for some inspiration for my own team. His response was…
How To Get Your Team On Board With Training And Development
Most leaders, especially good ones, know they need to be helping their team grow and develop. Whether you need your team to simply improve their performance or be prepared to lead at a higher level, development is a necessity. But not everyone on every team is immediately open to focused personal development. As their leader,…
