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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...
Equip Your Entire Church With Our Expanded Library Featuring Bible And Leadership Training
At TrainedUp our mission is to invest in the local church by equipping ministry leaders to lead healthy, effective teams. To date, we’ve done this by creating the best platform available for volunteer training with our easy to use course builder and library of pre-made volunteer training videos. Over the past few years, we’ve come…
5 Tips for Better Online Training Videos
While the TrainedUp platform is flexible enough to handle all different types of training media like text, images, and downloadable files, video is where TrainedUp shines. We built a simple tool to record video right from your webcam into TrainedUp and it is, by far, the most popular way to get new training material up…
How The Worship Center Equips Leaders With TrainedUp
It’s no secret that the church exists to make disciples. Unfortunately, for a lot of churches, we’re so busy at doing ministry that we don’t have time to focus on relationally raising up disciples. That was the case for Jacin Humprey, the Pastor of Ministry at The Worship Center, a church of about 2500 people…
The Art of Retraining: How To Get Your Existing Volunteers On Board
This post is my actual response to a question from a pastor about how he can use TrainedUp to train existing volunteers on new policies. Basically, I moved all training and important info to TrainedUp. Emails/texts became only a way to let people know that a new announcement or change in schedule or procedure was…
How To Use Trello To Track Volunteer Onboarding In Your Church
I’m a huge believer that systems are the key to success in most organizations. That’s especially true when it comes to onboarding your church’s volunteers. In the past, we’ve talked a lot about volunteer onboarding and have created what we like to call the ultimate guide to volunteer onboarding. What I want to do today…
Discipleship is Changing; 5 Things Your Church Can Do to Evolve
There’s a growing faction of young Christians who aren’t satisfied with the last 10 years of Christian discipleship. They’re upset that identity politics has kidnapped their faith and made it a voting block based on economic and foreign policy. They’re tired of the weak oversimplification of discipleship as nothing more than loving your neighbor. And…
74 Revealing Questions to Assess The Readiness of Your Deacon Candidates
Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain. They must hold the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience. And let them also be tested first; then let them serve as deacons if they prove themselves blameless. Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers,…
The Case for Diversity in the Church
I wrote this post last Friday, August 11. That evening white supremacists organized in Charlottesville. The next day, one of the white supremacists turned himself into a terrorist and drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing at least one and injuring many others. This post now has a new context of urgency and…
A Church Is Only As Healthy As Its Team
When you joined the team at your church, what kind of training did you get in the first weeks? Did you have an HR meeting to cover the health insurance and retirement accounts? Did you cover how to submit an expense report or reserve a room on the master calendar? How about how to handle…
