by churchhires | Jul 24, 2016 | leadership
In a recent podcast episode, “reboot your small group strategy for the fall and finally make it awesome” we shared how a lot of churches might not have the most successful strategy in mind when it comes to their small groups. A typical small group focus is one where,...
by churchhires | Jul 8, 2016 | leadership
If you’ve been in church for any single calendar year, you know as well the rest of us that the summer season can mean quite the slump in attendance. It’s not uncommon for a church staff to do one hundred backflips on the side of the road to desperately attract...
by churchhires | May 26, 2016 | leadership
I cannot overstate this enough; you only have a few minutes to make a first impression on your new guests. Your website, your parking lot, and your kid’s check-in experience are all infamously critical to the first-time guest experience at your church. That’s not the...
by churchhires | May 19, 2016 | leadership
It’s nice to live in a country where we are born with a voice in the leadership of our nation, but elections aren’t made of the same stuff they used to be. The issues are wilder than ever before, and the stakes are higher than ever. All of our Christian sensibilities...
by churchhires | May 5, 2016 | leadership
Everyone loves a good anachronism. Sure, less than ten percent of books purchased right now are printed versus digital, but we all have at least a book or two that we like to hold onto. Sure, over ninety-eight percent of music purchased in the United States of America...
by churchhires | Apr 21, 2016 | leadership
Do you ever wish you had a time machine so you could go back and undo all the things you did that made you look silly? Well, I wish I could turn back the clock and live my early twenties again knowing these five tips. It took me nearly a decade to figure these things...