Planning for intentional preaching:

Here are some resources that I wanted to share with my Preaching for Leadership class that I am currently taking as part of my Master’s program from Indiana Wesleyan University. All of us are looking for ways to be more intentional in our preaching or teaching. The documents below are some of the ways that we do this in our ministry environment.

Big Picture Planning sheet - series planning
Message Sketch - individual message planning
Weekend Planning Sheet - this is from somewhere else (I think Willow Creek)

Death by Meeting resources:

These resources have been taken from those found in Patrick Lencioni’s book, “Death by Meeting.” They have been adopted for our use as a team and the way we work in church.

The Four Meetings
Weekly meeting plan

Samson Series - this is a message series that we did on the life of Samson. It went really well and was actually published on Willow Creeks student ministry resource site - “the net.” I hope that you can use this, let me know what you think.

Samson cue sheet
Samson week 1 message
Power point image

Note: If you are interested in the whole series including small group questions email me and I will send the compressed file with everything.

Our Wednesday night program which is outreach driven and truly is 1980’s youth ministry in a box. Here is a sample lesson. Check it out and let me know what you think.

01-dew-shift-image.doc

Smart Goals: a tool to help you lead your team or yourself in creating goals that are specific, measurable, attainable, realistic with a time frame.

sample letter

sample set of goals