About me…
My role as an executive pastor is somthing like a Chief Operations Officer and a Senior Associate Pastor. I love connecting high capacity people and getting them the resources they need to make a difference in our world through the local church.
I also love working to develop creative solutions for communications, technology and ministry programs that make a difference in our communities.
I completely believe the church can change our world!
Dec
30
It’s an amazing thing to see a church that is 60 yrs old and doing relevant ministry that still impacts our community for Christ! If you missed this night of celebration you can check it out the Night of Worship below.
Dec
29
Being the Boss
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One of my favorite feeds is Seth Godin’s blog where he gives insights on marketing in todays technology savvy world.
I enjoy identifying transferable business principles for the church and Seth Godin provides a lot of marketing ideas that I think directly apply to the local church ministry.
One example is found in a recent post by Seth entitled “Do you need a boss?” In it, he offers some pretty interesting ideas on leadership and business management. Here’s an excerpt that has caught my attention as I think about the new year:
- Bosses organize your time for you.
- Bosses decide what’s urgent.
- Bosses give you cover when you work on something stupid (“she told me to!”)
- Bosses pay you even when the client doesn’t honor the invoice.
- Bosses can be sued.
- Bosses create deadlines, and stick with them.
- Bosses make sure you show up in the morning.
- Bosses pay for the Post-It notes.
- Bosses give you someone to complain about.
- Bosses carve up the work and give you just that piece you signed up to do.
- Bosses give you a role model. (Sometimes one to work against, but that’s a different story).
The implicaiton is that while some people need bosses, others do not. The truth is that some can better manage themselves than having me to do it for them. I’m reconsidering what it means to be a “boss” and what I should do as a leader. I hope my job is not simply following up with everyone to make sure they’re doing their jobs. Rather, I hope I can empower people to do things better than I could ever do without them.
Hears to a great new year!
