What a great story from a Baptist Paper about how a small church in a small town can have a big impact through a “Giving Garden” http://www.christianindex.org/6581.article
I have neglected to mention my friends at NorthCoast Church have moved into a new campus in Vista, California a few weeks back. We did a Multi Site Conference there a few years back. I will blog more about this later but check out their exciting opening weekend here:
http://www.northcoastchurch.com/welcome/service_times/vista_campus_opening_weekend/
Ten Reasons why churches stall - http://ht.ly/257WE
Non profits are better organized than for profits. Well sometimes - http://www.economist.com/node/16588412?story_id=16588412
A nice list of Non Anglo Church Bloggers from DJ Chuang http://djchuang.com/2010/top-church-blogs-by-minority-leaders/
A great story of a pastor’s impact on Donald Miller: http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/07/19/Miller.jazz/?hpt=C1
Sadly, we had a family friend, about my age, die last week. A friend is organizing some meal deliveries and is using this site and it is a really cool idea:
http://www.takethemameal.com/ - I don’t know if folks still do this in other parts of the country, but down here in the south, we do.
House Church Denver Post: http://www.denverpost.com/ci_15547588
And Ed Stetzer pointed me to this news link about house/simple/organic churches that I thought had some good thoughts: http://cbs5.com/wireapnational/Growing.movement.of.2.1817068.html
Eric Swanson sent this and it is first a really cool animation/information video and secondly, some great content.
http://www.wimp.com/secretpowers/
Does more space mean better ministry? Interesting research from my friends at Cornerstone Knowledge Network and Christianity Today: http://www.christianitytoday.com/yc/2010/summer/spacebetterministry.html?start=1
A great set of articles on communicating during a crisis over at Your Church: http://www.churchsafety.com/topics/emergencies/disasters/communicatingcrisis/cs72.html
From Will Mancini’s blog, this quote which is so right on:
“Vision dripping is more important than vision casting: Great churches produce visionary teams, and visionary people that share (drip) the vision in the course of daily leadership and life. Vision ought to be a team sport and engage an army of everyday story-tellers in the community. Vision should never be relegated to special gifting of a the point leader only.”
More here - http://www.willmancini.com/2010/07/new-rules-of-vision.html
I want to give a shout out to my friends at Granger Church and their upcoming “Genious of The AND Conference” coming this November – Check it out here: http://www.wiredchurches.com/andconference
And finally, there was a comment from a Mayor on one of our recent Learnings Blog posts about the image of being a midwife and a hospice worker and how leaders bear the pain. That reminded me that we all need to always pray for all our leaders, not just pastoral ones. So pray today for your city or town’s mayor and if you think about it, pray for Mayor Mary in Michigan.
More next week.
Dave Travis
Managing Director
Leadership Network
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