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A Free Lunch

Sponsor appreciation can sometimes be one of the hardest things for many of us to follow through on.  Our leaders pour themselves into our ministries and give up countless hours and vacations to minister as part of the church.  Yet, we struggle to find ways to just say, “Thank You!”  However, even you can do [...]

studenw4 | June 10th, 2009 | Continued

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Tony Morgan coming to STL…

In just over a month Tony Morgan will be stopping at Harvester Christian Church as part of his book tour.  Tony will be speaking and sharing with us through out the morning.  If you have not yet read, Killing Cockroaches, you will want to go out and get it.  Or you can just show up [...]

studenw4 | May 27th, 2009 | Continued

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Gather your team

Over the last several weeks I have not been really meeting with my team.  I miss these chances to connect and have conversation about what is happening in our ministry area.  So, why have I not been meeting?  I have been thinking of ways to redesign our team meeting to help make it more effective.  [...]

studenw4 | May 13th, 2009 | Continued

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A new brainstorming method

This past week I met with our team of leaders who devleop the programming side of our services.  This is a team of about 8 - 12 people who are either worship leaders or they play some part in the execution of our student services.  Over the last year we have been meeting once a [...]

studenw4 | May 11th, 2009 | Continued

Feature Article #5

11 Principles of Church Growth

Filed Under: Leadership
Tags: Ben Merold • Church growth • david mehrle • growing a student ministry • Student Ministry

I have had the privilege over the last five years to work with an individual who has not made a name for himself in the publishing world or even tried to capitalize on his talents. However, this [...]

studenw4 | April 27th, 2009 | Continued

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Get out of the Office…

Just a couple of days ago we had an day team meeting where we needed to come up with our fall teaching themes for our Wednesday night program called, .deW.  This is program is geared to reaching students who are not attending church on a regular basis and to assist our students in inviting their [...]

2Jul2009 | studenw4 | 0 comments | Continued
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Creating Buzz

In a recent blog post by Tony Morgan he made this statement, “In my experience, different creates buzz. And, when there’s buzz, more people are talking about it and inviting their friends.” This caught my attention quite a bit.
I know that in my leadership style and in creating structure in our ministry that we [...]

1Jul2009 | studenw4 | 0 comments | Continued
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Must read blog

Just read this over at Mark Batterson’s Blog and it is a must read.
“One of the quantum challenges leaders face is this: as the organizations they lead start experiencing organizational growth they stop experiencing personal growth. Why? Because of the demands of the organizational growth. They start leading the organization and stop leading themselves. And [...]

26Jun2009 | studenw4 | 0 comments | Continued
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Must read blog

“One of the quantum challenges leaders face is this: as the organizations they lead start experiencing organizational growth they stop experiencing personal growth. Why? Because of the demands of the organizational growth. They start leading the organization and stop leading themselves. And that is when the blessing turns into a curse. Growth will grind to [...]

26Jun2009 | studenw4 | 0 comments | Continued
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Camp is here

I am finally relaxing now that we are into day two. At this point everything should run fairly smooth other than we have had over 5 inches of rain in the last 24 hours. Thankfully it has been pretty clear during free time.
If you have ever had the chance to be in charge [...]

16Jun2009 | studenw4 | 0 comments | Continued
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