Tag: culture

  • Leadership Summit 2016: Wilfredo De Jesus

    Leadership Summit 2016: Wilfredo De Jesus

    Wilfredo De Jesus, who serves as the Senior Pastor at New Life Covenant Church wrapped up Leadership Summit this year with a spiritual challenge. A leader who stops learning, stops leading No one drifts upstream or towards holiness It takes effort and determination A map offers many routes to get to the same place but…

  • 4 Common Church Merger Mistakes

    4 Common Church Merger Mistakes

    The thought of a church merging with another church had never crossed my mind 20 years ago when I started full time ministry. Mergers were something companies did, not churches. But if you’re paying attention to what’s happening in church-world, mergers are becoming more and more common. And I don’t think it’s a trend that’s…

  • Managing the Tension between Culture and Control in a Multisite Church

    Managing the Tension between Culture and Control in a Multisite Church

    One of the greatest challenges of leading a Multisite Church is maintaining alignment across campuses. Regardless of how proven your ministry model may be, many campus leaders still desire space to make it their own. While this drive can be evidence of their leadership capacity, it can also create tension and disunity on your team.…

  • 10 Keys to Making Church Mergers Work

    Church mergers are becoming more commonplace, and for a lot of reasons it’s a movement that I believe we’ll see more of in the future. In fact Sun Valley Community Church, the church I have the pleasure of serving at, has experience beginning two new campuses through mergers in the last couple of years. There…

  • 10 Articles that will Help Your Church Make Vision Real

    10 Articles that will Help Your Church Make Vision Real

    Thank you for making January a great month here at Helping Churches Make Vision Real! It’s great staying connected with you through social media and hearing that these articles have been helpful. So, thank you for connecting with me through the content on this blog! You made these the top posts from this last month.…