Hey Our recent Core Leadership meeting decided that I should use this blog as a resource to communicate, train, advise, help etc. the members of our Church’s Wider Leadership Team. I hope you’ll take the […]
7 GUIDELINES FOR GOOD MEETINGS
Someone recently said to me, “Paul, you seem to be in loads of meetings, your days seem ful of meetings.” It is true I do my fair share because of all the forums I’m engaged […]
New Year’s Resolve
As a teenager in church the passing of every year brought about messages on looking ahead, having a positive outlook, being faith filled about the future etc.. At the same time those messages often involved […]
Multiple site yea or nay
check out this great discussion on multi site churches. http://player.vimeo.com/video/13082622 Multiple Sites: Yea or Nay? Dever, Driscoll, and MacDonald Vote from Ben Peays on Vimeo.
Building Church means Building People
In my last blog I wrote about the fact that the church is people and not the organisation or the history/tradition or the administration systems and process. Building the church therefore by definition requires the […]
My Greatest Frustration
Someone once said, ‘Frustration and Vision are exactly the same thing.’ They’re right, but it doesn’t feel like it when you’re frustrated! being a church leader is a frustrating thing, partly because at times you […]
What makes a great volunteer
Yesterday ate CLC we had our Involved! Sunday. This is a day when we celebrate volunteers, have a little expo on positions that are available for volunteers and we teach on the culture of serving. […]
Atmosphere
Right now we are looking at Christian Life Church into the theme Devoted. We are taking the first four chapters from Acts and seeing how the first Christians were Responding to the outpouring of the […]
Upgrade
I love september it’s like the start of a new year in the life of the church after summer. I’ve been thinking recently about how do we upgrade what we are doing, how can we […]
Culture – What is Culture?
Every organisation has it, many have a culture they don’t want, many know the culture they want but don’t know how to get it. But what is it?. Culture is what makes us who we […]