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The Organizational Chart
An important part of developing infrastructure related to staff, definition of authority, compensation, duties and responsibilities, etc. is the Organizational Chart. It seems like a “lost art” these...
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Strategic Plan Critical Strategies And Key Objectives
The “actionable” part of the Strategic Plan consists of critical strategies, each broken into key objectives. Critical strategies are the highest-level objectives that begin to break the plan down into...
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Infrastructure Development Webinar … This Thursday!
Church Community Builder recently invited me to facilitate one of their webinars, and it’s coming up. I’m pretty excited about it! Here’s the scoop … Date: Thursday, March 13, 2014 Time: 1:00 PM...
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Church Community Builder And Aware3
Thank you Church Community Builder! We’re in our 4th year as a “CCB church,” and I can’t tell you how glad we are that we decided to go with them! Thanks to Church Community Builder, we’ve completely...
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Finance Team Charter
Purpose The purpose of this policy is to establish and communicate the Finance Team charter as set forth by the church’s Board of Elders. Scope The Finance Team is formed and empowered by the Board of...
View ArticleAssociate Pastor Job Description
General Description The Associate Pastor is the primary support person for the Senior Pastor in the performance of his sermon planning and weekly speaking duties as well as outreach and missions...
View ArticleChildren’s Pastor Job Description
General Description The Children’s Pastor is responsible for all aspects of ensuring the spiritual growth and development of children ages birth through 5th grade. This includes curriculum selection,...
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The Management System – Form, Fit, and Function
The Management System is the “backbone” of any serious effort to develop infrastructure in the church. It actually enables growth through leveraging (scaling up) the talent and expertise of key...
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A Place For Everything, And Everything In Its Place
The more I do this job, the more I realize that much of what I’ve learned over my years in corporate applies to managing the church. “Doing church” each weekend is a lot about logistics. You know …...
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Strategic Planning Facilitation
I’m headed to Indiana to help a church through its first ever Strategic Planning Process. I’ll be there all day today and tomorrow, heading home on Wednesday night. I really enjoy leading church staffs...
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Your CMS Isn’t Supposed To “Pay The Bills”
I finally started to “get it” during a recent telephone conversation. My posts over the last year or more on the topic of Church Management Software (CMS) have resulted in many inquiries from readers...
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Implementing An Assimilation Process
I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve been contacted by a church wanting to develop an assimilation process. Or, they have one and they want to improve it or to use Church Community Builder to...
View ArticleChurch Community Builder Introduces 4.0!
Have you heard? Church Community Builder’s already great application is about to get even better! Check out this video … Introducing 4.0 from Church Community Builder on Vimeo. Related Posts: Moving...
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Why Church Community Builder?
I’ve had a number of conversations over the last few years on the topic of Church Management Software and why our church went with Church Community Builder. Much of what I communicate has been written...
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Measuring Results – First Time Guests
There are some things around here we’ve done for so long that we don’t even notice them anymore. One of those things is the focus and importance we place on the first-time guest as part of our Sunday...
View ArticleChurch Infrastructure Development: If you Build It, They Will Come
Effective churches can be boiled down to literally hundreds of successfully implemented processes, both individual and interdependent. The key is leading teams that decide on best practices and...
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The Year Of The Executive Pastor
Someone on staff at Church Community Builder (CCB) with whom I’ve developed a strong friendship, recently guest posted on Tony Morgan’s site Tony Morgan Live! His name is Steve Caton and he is CCB’s...
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The Management System – Form, Fit, And Function
The Management System is the “backbone” of any serious effort to develop infrastructure in the church. It actually enables growth through leveraging (scaling up) the talent and expertise of key...
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A Place For Everything, And Everything In Its Place
The more I do this job, the more I realize that much of what I’ve learned over my years in corporate applies to managing the church. “Doing church” each weekend is a lot about logistics. You know …...
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Strategic Planning Facilitation
I’m headed to Indiana to help a church through its first ever Strategic Planning Process. I’ll be there all day today and tomorrow, heading home on Wednesday night. I really enjoy leading church staffs...
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