I had a strange dream the other night. I was sitting at a table in a McDonald’s restaurant. The room was filled with people of all ages, from children to senior citizens, married couples and singles, and teenager of all shapes and sizes. In all there were about 50 people in the room. The smell [...]
A number of readers have written in to us, sharing their desire to reach people in their community, but frustrated due to a lack of finances. I hope this video helps you move forward, no matter what your financial situation: How Much Money Is Needed to Start Servant Evangelism? Also, you will want to check [...]
***Thanks to Tim in Berea, OH who sent over an ultra-optimized video file that’s only 60MB!*** Mike Slaughter shares his heart as it relates to over 30 years of solid ministry at Ginghamsburg Church at Tipp City (Dayton), Ohio. Slaughter reflects upon how his initial church growth strategy misfired. He had to get a vision [...]
I don’t know about you folks, but some of the best outreach opportunities come when i least expect them. Most of them come from me just speaking less and listening more. One example was our outreach to Fairborn elementary School in Ohio. We had begun the long process of adopting Fairborn Elementary School. This past [...]
Serve: “Do you see any interesting developments in the Church at large with outreach?” Sjogren: “The Church seems to be seeing outreach as normal behavior these days. Outreach Pastors are becoming increasingly common on church staffs.” Serve: “Do you see any encouraging trends regarding outreach across the board?” Sjogren: “There is certainly more focus on [...]
Dear Dr. Savant, My husband and I have three children. Our two daughters are ages eight and ten and our little boy just turned six. Matthew, our son just came home from his first grade class and asked me if we believe in Halloween. My husband cleared his throat, but didn’t answer and I started [...]
In 1998 I was burnt out. Three years earlier, I had taken over as the interim pastor of a local Vineyard church. For my three years pastoring the church, everything that I had previously learned about church growth and leading a church stopped working. As a person who believed that cause and effect were a [...]
A few years ago, I was standing on a street corner giving away cans of soda. Traffic backed up as people stopped to get their free soda. While most people were pleasantly surprised, one man stood out as particularly unhappy. He pulled to the corner, the windows of his big dark blue Buick rolled up, [...]
All communication boils down to two simple things: The message and the medium. One president in our generation won his election in a come from behind victory as his election manager wrote on the central white board, “It’s the economy dummy!” With that focus in mind, the campaign supposedly hammered on that single message for [...]
I recently sat on a two hour flight next to a guy who initially was a bit miffed when I asked if I could sit next to the window where his ticket read because I have great difficulty getting up and down on planes (my damaged legs and all). This tall guy reluctantly agreed. I [...]