Links of Interest – June 11, 2010

OK, the occasional series of links I found interesting this week:

An article about relatively “normal” churches moving to multi site models here: http://www.baptiststandard.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11202&Itemid=53

An article about The Rock Church in San Diego serving the homeless and other street level service projects: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/06/08/2000690/for-members-of-the-rock-in-san.html

As a person that travels all the time, I am always a sucker for articles like this:

http://www.fastcompany.com/article/work-smart-must-have-mobile-apps-for-the-road-warrior - Must have mobile apps.

Loved this article from Church Executive about using Craig’s list for ministry: http://churchexecutive.com/archives/craiglist-as-a-church-resource

Then my friend DJ Chuang twittered some “Christian Craig’s list ideas” like these:

http://www.churchskinny.com/home/

http://www.christools.com/

I thought this article as well from Church Executive was very powerful:

http://churchexecutive.com/archives/effective-clergy-by-the-numbers

It comes from the UMC Bishop in North Alabama William Willimon. I know a lot of folks push back against numbers but what are you measuring? Click through and look at their weekly dashboards for their churches. http://www.northalabamaumc.org/weeklyreport.asp

I don’t have an iPad and don’t plan to get one anytime soon and this video didn’t help me much. http://scobleizer.com/2010/06/07/steve-rubels-and-mine-favorite-ipad-apps/

In the whole hour of showing apps, I found few very potentially useful. Lots of cool gadgets and toys though.

I caught up on some of my blog reading after vacation and wanted to shout out to our staff member Eric Swanson for some good stuff over on the Learnings Blog. http://learnings.leadnet.org

I especially liked the ones on Good Neighboring: http://learnings.leadnet.org/2010/05/becoming-a-community-of-good-neighbors.html

Ok, that’s enough for now.

Dave Travis

Managing Director

Leadership Network