In part one of this Whiteboard discussion, Andy Bossardet and Eliza Bast talked about defining your ministry’s current reality. This week’s episode will continue to show you how to reorient your inputs and outcomes to not only achieve your calling, but also to reflect your reality by entering into three levels of conversation. As you do the work of discerning …
Urban Church Planting: Podcast Episode 4
As more and more people around the world move from the countryside and suburbs back into the cities, how should the Church respond? On this week’s podcast, Pete Pinkowski and Michael Hooker, pastors of urban congregations in Cleveland, Ohio and Hammond, Indiana, take us into their communities to show us how they “seek the shalom of the city” (Jeremiah 29:7) …
What Makes for a Successful Ministry — Part One
Oftentimes, we tell stories of what success looks like and doesn’t look like, but most of those stories go unexamined. On today’s Whiteboard Wednesday, we have Eliza Cortez Bast from the Local Missional Engagement of the RCA and Andy Bossardet, who serves as Coordinator for Equipping Thriving Congregations of the RCA. Today is part one of two on the question, …
Three Things Churches Love that Kill Outreach
Too often, the fire that goes out most quickly in the life of a church is the fire for outreach. On this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday, Art Wiers, Church Health Catalyst for Luminex, draws wisdom from Ed Stetzer to show how churches can reorder their priorities in order to grow and serve people well within their contexts. Stetzer says there are …
The Leadership Hub
We are excited to kick off season three of Whiteboard Wednesday with John Messer, who serves as Regional Executive and Leadership Development Catalyst for Luminex. Today John describes the “Leadership Hub.” One major component of our leadership process is the “hub,” and other parts of that cycle are comprised of freeing, visioning, implementing, and sustaining. If you are already using …
West Michigan Deaf Fellowship Gathering
Please join us on Friday, July 7th for an introduction to Chronological Bible Storying (CBS) and get access to God’s word in American Sign Language! Presenter: Mark Sorenson who is the Deaf International Program Coordinator for DOOR International DOOR International’s mission is to bring God’s Word and reproducing Christian fellowships to the Deaf of the world. Their vision is “Deaf …
Podcast Episode 3: “Church Life Cycles”
On today’s episode, we have Art Wiers, Church Health Catalyst for Luminex, talk about the lifecycle of a church from birth to decline. The reality is that all churches fall somewhere on this cycle and it’s important for leaders to know which stage theirs falls into. Learn how church life cycles leads to effectively starting and strengthening churches, and how …
Podcast Episode 2: “Gospel and Culture”
On today’s episode, Mike Gafa joins the show to talk about the ever-shifting dynamic between gospel and culture. Mike serves the Reformed Church as a Church Leadership Development Catalyst for Luminex and as the classis leader for the Classis of North Grand Rapids. He is passionate about developing churches that boldly and creatively engage with their cultures without compromising the …
The Control Continuum
As we wrap up season two of Whiteboard Wednesday- We have Mike Gafa, who serves as Church Leadership Development Catalyst for Luminex, describes a concept called “The Control Continuum.” Mike’s initial exposure to this concept was while he was teaching Franklin-Covey Time Management. The Control Continuum represents the spectrum between things we have no control over and things we have total …
Podcast Episode 1: “I Hate This”
In our first episode, Rick Veenstra, former Regional Executive and Leadership Development Catalyst for the Great Lakes Region of the RCA, talks about a difficult yet important leadership responsibility: releasing a staff member from an organization. When Rick was a kid, his mother would say that he shouldn’t use the word “hate,” so he hesitated using the phrase, “I hate …