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Fail to Live Up to Other’s Expectations By R. Scott Rodin
Learning to lead like Jesus For everyone in leadership who wants to follow Jesus, I would suggest the best place to start is Philippians 2:7, where Paul tells us that Jesus “made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant.” It does not say Jesus became a man of immoral…
Mobile Ministry Mistake By Dustin Dalberg
3 Mobile Ministry Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make About a month ago, Holly Rein, our Digital Ministry Consultant at Five Q, brought to my attention Think Again: Assumptions About Mobile To Reconsider by Karolina Szczur on Smashing Mag. Holly asked what I thought of it and if I had any response. First of all,…
The Stages of Stewardship By Ken R. Wilson
A Historical Look Stewardship has not always had the same meaning throughout history. Excellent studies have been done on the development of stewardship in the history of the Christian church by Luther Powell and Robert Lynn Wood. In their analyses, one can see the roots of modern definitions and stewardship misconceptions that arose from the…
The Stewardship of Your Intellect By Mark L. Vincent
If a steward leader is a steward of all the assets entrusted to them, then they are a steward of their intellect. Does that go without saying? Perhaps. And yet, acknowledging this is true is not the same as doing the work of expanding one’s base of knowledge, deliberately reducing thinking errors, distinguishing between personal…
Digital Ministry in a Post-Website World By Dr. David T. Bourgeois
The Internet is the greatest communications tool ever invented by humans. It is the most rapidly adopted communication technology of all time, available to over two billion people at this time. Social media sites such as Facebook and YouTube are growing fast, with Facebook garnering over 1 billion user accounts in seven years and YouTube…
7 Tips for Improving Donor Stewardship By Andrew Olsen
When I think about the word stewardship, I think of the responsibility of taking care of something that belongs to someone else. The responsibility of taking care of something that belongs to someone else. Think about that for a minute. How does this definition impact the way you think about donors’ gifts? Will it change how…
Debt and Biblical Reflections By Dr. Gary Hoag
We live in a time when social activists are seeking to end slavery and human trafficking around the globe, while a more nefarious foe has enslaved the peoples of the earth: debt (Proverbs 22:7b). Perhaps we don’t hear much about this because God’s people are no different than the world. How big is this problem?…
12 Ways to Keep Your Board Engaged By Tom Okarma
Paraphrasing an old joke- QUESTION: Know how to get a few good directors” ANSWER: Start with a lot of good directors. A couple of nonprofit boards I am somewhat familiar with are in the process of losing some good directors by their own personal choice, not due to term limits. This is a shame because…
GenY is Coming – Are You Ready for Us? By Jay Shere
Two friends of mine (both former classmates at Azusa Pacific University) recently sold their tech start-up for $30 million dollars. My wife and a close friend (also both APU grads) have started their own writing/editing business. A quick scan of my LinkedIn contacts reveals vice presidents, directors, and mid-level managers. Some have titles that didn’t…
Does Your Faith Permeate Your Fundraising? By Wesley K. Willmer
In Growing Givers’ Hearts: Treating Fundraising as Ministry (Jossey-Bass), authors Tom Jeavons and Rebekah Basinger compare and contrast how a faith-based, ministry-focused model of raising resources is very different from a secular approach focused strictly on the bottom line. They concluded that it all boils down to values, because our values determine our activities. What…
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