Tag: values
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Over-communicate with your leaders
Want to avoid confusion with your team? Communicate. Communicate. Communicate. I define a leader as someone who takes people somewhere they would otherwise not go on their own. All-too-often, as I look back on my life in leadership, my tendency is always to get a mile ahead of my team because I have under-communicated the…
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Lessons from the bench
For the last two years I’ve been riding the pine at church. This time has taught me a lot about what it means to be in church leadership. From age 16 until 31 I had always aspired to be an up front leader at church. I like being visible. I love speaking, teaching, and preaching.…
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5 Things I Love about my Church
This Easter marks roughly two years since I turned in my Pastor Adam card and went from church staff to church attendee. (I was officially done June 1st, but it was during Easter week that the offer to come to YS came, which completely changed everything.) In so many ways I’ve re-learned what it means…
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The home stretch
Megan has about three weeks left of school. Like a lot of other kids in school, she can only think about the finish line. How many days until she is done with first grade, gets a vacation, and enters second grade? Right now that is all those thoughts dominate her mind. We are using this…