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Crafting Your Church's Voice

Every church has a unique voice, and that voice should be loud and clear! Express your church's mission and values through an effective voice that remains consistent across all your channels of communication....

3 Tips for Creating Clear Communication

Keep these three questions in mind when crafting ministry communications: 1. What are you trying to accomplish? What would the 'win' be? 2. What is the context of the piece? What else happening in the church could affect the reception of the message? 3. Who is our audience? What do they know or need...

Setting Capacity and Leader Ratios in LifeKids

Excellence—it guides everything we do at LifeKids. It’s why we created the Excellence Walk Checklist. It’s why we carefully craft our curriculum. It’s why we never settle for “good enough.” And that includes our capacity for kids rooms. We get a lot of questions about how we determine leader-to-ch...

Service & Events

Three Tips for Stage Communication

It can be scary—having only a few minutes to convey all the news, initiatives, and stories that you want to share with your congregation during a service. But if you think of communicating from stage less as making announcements and more as casting vision, you'll be able to craft stronger, more cohe...

5 Days of Leadership with Pastor Craig | Day 5: Lead Yourself

Day 5: Lead yourself.The most important person you will ever lead is yourself. We've discussed leading and growing our church, but in this new year it's important not to forget yourself in the process. One of the biggest factors in growing as leaders is your inner dialogue. When you wake up and be...

The Death of the Five-Year Plan

When I started in ministry two decades ago, everyone I knew was making five-year plans. While thoughtful planning is wise and biblical, I’ve changed how I plan. Instead of planning for specific buildings, campuses, staff roles, and outreach, I plan to be prepared for opportunities that I can’t...

Giving & Finance

Tips for Year-End Giving

It’s part of the natural rhythm of the year: giving tends to increase during the Christmas season. At Life.Church, we don’t take this for granted. We’re intentional about being humble and being good stewards of our resources, and that includes how we approach our tithing and giving communication at...