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Entries Tagged as 'Launch Team'
Converge tips ‘n tricks: Instant Video Meeting
May 8th, 2009 No Comments
If you want to get someone in a quick video chat without having to schedule a meeting, you can fire up an instant meeting and easily send them a link to join using email, IM, FaceBook or Twitter.
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Set Your Opening Day Expectations
January 16th, 2009 2 Comments
You’ve got to have a clear understanding of what the church experience will be like on opening day. It’ll help you stay focused on what needs to get done during the prelaunch phase. The vision for the future (what opening day looks like) will shape your actions today to achieve the vision tomorrow.
Planning
There are many [...]
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an online community idea
October 14th, 2008 No Comments
Several planters I know that are connected with the New Thing Network are using ‘generosity cards’ as part of their launch plan. The idea is this: business cards are printed that say something like, “Today it’s on me, tomorrow pay it forward.” Launch team members are encouraged to practice generosity by paying for the coffee [...]
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do you have any ‘maintainer’ in you?
June 6th, 2008 No Comments
Pre-Launch should be a time of dreaming and strategy, vision and planning. Most planters are big on the dream and small on the details and implementation. That is how it should be, as most people who are ‘maintainers’ don’t have big enough dreams, or at least the moxie to go plant a church.
That being said, [...]
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10 Mistakes Rookie Managers Make Most Often
May 23rd, 2008 No Comments
I just never get tired of top 10 lists.
Here’s a great one with some insight into church leadership. Of course they don’t all apply, but the top 3 really struck me:
[New Leaders] persist in still doing their old jobs, rather than their new ones. As a result, they don’t delegate; they burn themselves out while [...]
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Building a Launch Team p. 4
April 14th, 2008 2 Comments
In our recent survey of new churches currently in years 2-5, we found that the healthiest new churches had launch teams over 40 people. Click here to see the stats. This is the final segment in this series of blogs. Here are links to the first three.
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
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Building a Launch Team p.3
April 12th, 2008 1 Comment
In our recent survey of new churches currently in years 2-5, we found that the healthiest new churches had launch teams over 40 people. Click here to see the stats.
You have a unique opportunity during pre-launch that you will never have again in the life of the church. You won’t be writing a [...]
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Building a Launch Team pt.2
April 11th, 2008 2 Comments
In our recent survey of new churches currently in years 2-5, we found that the healthiest new churches had launch teams over 40 people. Click here to see the stats. In pt. 1 of this post, I talked about what a launch team is and boundaries to set for it. At Passion 4 Planting we [...]
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Building a Launch Team p.1
April 9th, 2008 3 Comments
In our recent survey of new churches currently in years 2-5, we found that the healthiest new churches had launch teams over 40 people. Click here to see the stats.
Building a launch team may be the single most important thing you do in starting a new church. Its also the one of the most difficult. [...]
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