Archive for the 'church administration' Category

options of distraction Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Why do we get distracted?

When the team doesn’t know, doesn’t understand, or doesn’t agree with the vision of your organization there will be distraction. Why? Because they are not motivated by the same vision you have. And when someone is testing their own actions against a different set of filters, they make different decisions.

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a day of training Friday, April 18th, 2008

My friend, and fellow worrier, Chris and his new website assistant Janine from North Shore Church sat down for several hours today so they could learn how to use their new website.  He went home and posted his first blog entry already tonight.  I’m impressed.

So what’s the bid deal?  Is a website so important for a church?

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WOW in Your Service Monday, March 10th, 2008

did we wow you?

One of my new favorite restaurants is Red Robin. Not because of their Royal Red Robin Burger(R)…

“This is the aristocrat of all burgers because we crown it with a fresh fried egg. In addition, topped with three strips of hickory-smoked bacon, American cheese, crisp lettuce, tomatoes and mayo.”

… but because of their attitude about service.

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on the grow Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Today @ MapleGrove we set another milestone. Most people on a non-FoodDay ever. We had 157 people today - which is also up from only 60 a year ago for the same weekend.

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new guy in Lapeer town Sunday, February 10th, 2008

Today was Todd’s first day at MapleGrove and (I think) just what we need right now to get us onto the top of the next mountain.  It’s really exciting to see how all of this just happened to happen.

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