We all want what we do to be memorable, but in order for that to happen, it must be meaningful. But, how can we make our work meaningful to other people? Kevin Kinghorn shares about his wife’s quilt-making, and how it taught him about doing things that create or evoke memories for others.
The secret to helping people in your congregation is to understand them and the things that are important to their lives. Helen Mitchell shares 7 things you can do to better understand and guide business leaders in your congregation.
How can pastors support their working congregations? While there is no set right answer, Helen Mitchell shares some tips to get you going in the right direction.
There is an ever-growing people group in the Western world that is not being reached by the Church, nor have they heard the authentic, simple good news of Jesus Christ. Taylor King is inspired to love the lost and help the marginalized and oppressed by working and walking alongside them through a start up a popsicle business called “What’s Poppin?”
There’s nothing wrong with giving gifts of socks or jewelry or a fountain pen or anything else that is enjoyed in isolation, but in this post Kevin Kinghorn suggests that gifts that create shared memories may be “more Christian.”
“Lead by Example” is a phrase we all have heard many times throughout our careers. In this day and age of transparency and technology that can literally capture our every move, it is even more important that we preserve our integrity and ensure our actions and words are telling the same story!
Dr. Svetlana Papazoz and her husband, Michael, are using their business and pastoral backgrounds to plant in the Richmond, VA area “a marketplace church that integrates faith and entrepreneurship.”
Don Flow, a car dealer from North Carolina, surprised Willow Creek’s Leadership Summit when his talk became the most tweeted of the entire conference. The way he spoke about the integration of faith and business resonated deeply with many attendees. Check out the video in this post.
Churches often “utilize” entrepreneurs, marketers, human resource experts, and others with business expertise by occasionally asking them to arrange spreadsheets for the church finance committee. This seems to me akin to “utilizing” a computer programming genius by asking her to arrange the pastor’s power point slides for Sunday sermons.
In order for management to be done well, exploration needs to happen first. By that I’m saying: there’s a recognition that we’re kind of here, we want to go there, we’re not quite sure what it looks like or how to do it. And that’s a very different methodology and thought process.
For Methodist pastors today serving local congregations—and this of course would go for any pastor—what are some ways they can honor the work, the ministries, of people in their congregations? Dwight Gibson discusses in this interview with Kevin KInghorn.
Dwight Gibson is Chief Explorer at The Exploration Group, as well as Director of Program Outreach at the Acton Institute. He is featured in Acton’s video series: For the Life of the World: Letters to the Exiles. In part one of this three-part interview, Dwight and Kevin Kinghorn discuss craftsmanship.
