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Addition Mentality vs. Multiplication Mentality: Volunteers

“If we can just get 5 more teachers for our children’s ministry and 4 more nursery workers and 7 more people who will help with tear down and set up we will be golden.”  Sound familiar? This is the time of year that volunteer recruiting is on the minds of leaders as they move toward the “fall kick off” and …

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Is your life a quest or a quilt?

“Living a connected life leads one to take a different view. Life is less a quest than a quilt. We find meaning, love, and prosperity through the process of stitching together our bold attempts to help others find their own way in their lives. The relationships we weave become an exquisite and endless pattern.”  ― Keith Ferrazzi, Never Eat Alone: And Other …

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Who is a Church Planter?

Question: By way of definition: Who is a church planter? Answer 1: Everyone is called to plant the gospel and help to create new communities of believers.  (btw – this is the work of making disciples that Jesus talks about in the Great Commission – Matthew 28:19-20).  In a very real sense church planting is the ministry of everyone who …