Tag: plan

  • 8 Keys to Changing your Church in 2017

    8 Keys to Changing your Church in 2017

    Most church leaders I’ve talked with want things to change for the better, they want this year to be better than last year, but they don’t want to do anything different. People always want to change their circumstances, but they never want to change their lives. But everything gets better when we get better. Families…

  • Hope is Not a Strategy

    Hoping things will get better at your church won’t help things actually get better at your church. In fact the opposite may actually be true. The Bible says this about hope in Proverbs 13:12 “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.” In other words when we place…

  • 10 Articles that will Help your Church Make Vision Real

    10 Articles that will Help your Church Make Vision Real

    Thank you for making July another 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.…

  • Where there’s a Huddle there’s a Team

    Where there’s a Huddle there’s a Team

    How do you know if the volunteer teams at your church are really working? I don’t mean are they getting stuff done and meeting objectives, I mean are they developing people. After all the point of building volunteer teams at your church isn’t just to use people to accomplish objectives but rather to create opportunities…

  • The Difference between Preparation and Planning

    The Difference between Preparation and Planning

    Do great organizations prepare for the future or do they plan for it? The answer is, “yes.” To be clear preparation and planning are not the same thing, and great organizations become great by doing both. Great organizations prepare for opportunity. Preparation is all about positioning. Making decisions today that position you for opportunities that…