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Keeping Millennials Engaged

There’s a thought provoking post over on Katya’s Non-Profit Marketing Blog titled Why Millennials Are Going to Keep You on Your Toes.
 
In the post Katya Andresen talks about Millennials* and how they are different from past generations.  She makes many interesting observations but the one that stands out to me comes from a study by Achieve. She [...]

Volunteers Make Church Work

Did you know that this is Volunteer Appreciation Week?  In my line of business volunteers are extremely important.  I work for a small non-profit and we use volunteers to help us with our jobs every day.  I have a wonderful volunteer here this morning helping me with some data entry. It’s great that there are people [...]

The End of the Emergent Movement?

There's an interesting article over at Relevant Magazine titled The End of the Emergent Movement?.
 
I've always felt as though the Emergent Movement got a bad rap.  If you dared to utter the the word emergent in the wrong crowd you could risk beheading, and that never seemed fair to me. Where's the honest discussion? I hold the term [...]

Church Web Design: People vs. Buildings

I have been doing a little thinking about this topic lately.  In church web design, should you feature pictures of your congregation, or just pictures of your building and surrounding neighborhood? I would like to hear where you stand. Here are my initial thoughts.  Feel free to disagree or convince me otherwise.
 
In the world of web design [...]

Weekend Update

Friday Erin and I left work a little early to head down to my parent’s. From there we went to In-N-Out for dinner and then the church for my littlest sister’s baptism (she’s not really that little anymore). After the baptism a large group of us went to BJ’s to celebrate with pazookie.  It was [...]

I AM…

I have been thinking a little about the Gospel of John lately. I am teaching the Jr. High at church this month and having been given full freedom to choose my own topic, I decided to talk about some of Jesus’ famous “I Am” statements. So, we’ll be studying gems like, I am the bread [...]