Leadership Reflections

I feel like a new daddy again tonight as I hold my long anticipated (but too frequently edited) book that has arrived from the printer.  The desire for perfection and the conflicting desire to get it in your hands have finally converged and The Church At Work: A manual for excellent church-agency relations has been [...]

Sunday night in Kenya, I received an invitation to preach the following Sunday morning in Malawi.  Now, one of the delights in traveling the world is hearing pastors from other cultures preach, so I was a a bit disappointed.   But the pastor of the church I would be attending had been invited to preach [...]

This post is for pastors, mission committee members and anyone else interested in getting missionaries to their fields faster.  This excerpt of an article I wrote for the CCCC Bulletin has ideas that churches could use to greatly ease the burden of raising initial support.  The suggestions come from eight missionary teams from around the [...]

Here’s a list of things I’m thinking about that I’d like you to jump in on before I do.  But first, I have a celebration to share. Today’s my anniversary!  One year ago today I wrote my first post.  I started blogging because Heather Hanson, VP Administration at CCCC, came back from a social media conference [...]

Since January I’ve delivered a seminar called Serving as a Board Member right across Canada, and I’ve heard a lot about the problems boards experience.  The striking thing I’ve learned from these stories is that the very worst problems seem to occur in churches.  I know there are some very good church boards, but I mostly hear about the dysfunctional ones.  Why are church boards so [...]