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5 Best Practices in Training a Board Member Webinar
Hear Dan Busby, President of ECFA, share five best practices for training new board members....
Online Ministry
YouVersion for Churches Best Practices
How to Introduce YouVersion and Church Profile to Your Church After creating and publishing your Church Profile in YouVersion, you’ll want to share with your church how to access your Church Profile—and why they’ll want to set your church as their church in the app. Let’s walk through some ways t...
Leadership
5 Simple Ways To Invest In Your Marriage: These Practices Will Help You Keep Your Marriage a Priority
In this session Dr. Kim Kimberling shares 5 simple ways to invest in your marriage. Dr. Kim has been counseling couples for over 40 years and has been married to his wife Nancy for 52 years. Learn the 5 things he thinks every ministry leader should do to invest in their marriage. Click here for t...
Communications
Tips for Establishing a Communication Review Process
Below you'll find our best practices for the communication review process here at Life.Church. Operations Pastors/Associate Operations Pastors should monitor written communication without being a bottleneck—working more like a consultant than a content creator. Talk to your Campus Pastor about...
Leadership
How Do You Set Goals?
Life.Church Oklahoma City Pastor Chris Beall discusses best practices for setting quality goals and keeping them throughout the year. For more information about Life.Church's tool for setting and tracking goals, visit Develop.me ....
Leadership
Church Culture Conference: Building Multiplier Habits
Heidi Brandow explores how to recognize Accidental Diminisher behaviors and create new Multiplier practices. Learn how leaders can zoom out to see the entire chain of behavior. Understand why we do what we do, what triggers Diminisher behaviors and how to use those triggers as cues for Multiplier p...
Operations
Structuring Your Growth
Many organizations embrace growth without taking the time to process how systems and practices need to change in order to support that growth. In this clip, Dave Ramsey shares a model that your church can use to ensure success no matter what your size. This video is part of the Stewardship Confer...
Operations
Team Quality is Essential
Join financial expert and best-selling author Dave Ramsey as he discusses best practices for something nobody wants to talk about—removing members from your team. This video is part of the Stewardship Conference—thanks to our partner, Financial Peace University , for sharing with Open Network....
Leadership
Hillsong Training: Crucial Leadership Conversations
Join Ari Mason, Human Resources guru at Hillsong Church, as she reveals principles and practices for dealing with the most crucial conversations that leaders will have with their teams, congregation, and even their own bosses. This training was part of Hillsong Leader...
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Communications
Capturing Simple Videos for Your Church's Social Media - Unit 11
How do you keep your video viewers engaged? In this training, we’re going to talk about some of the best practices for church videography and help you create videos that will engage your community on social media. To see the rest of the "Communications for Churches" course, click here ! Relat...
Leadership
Facebook Live: Tough Pastoral Conversations
If you’ve ever felt unequipped to handle tough pastoral conversations, watch our conversation with Dr. Kim Kimberling, a licensed counselor, as he shares best practices in providing pastoral care and helping attenders develop a relationship with a Christian counselor. This on-demand video was pa...
Communications
Inside Our Communication Guide
One way we avoid making mistakes on communicative pieces is by referring to our Communication Guide. It contains our mission and core values, a list of "best practices," and practical information regarding style and punctuation specifications. The Communication Guide serves as our standard, clearly...
Operations
How to Record Church Board Minutes
Board minutes not only provide an indispensable record of deliberations in annual membership meetings, board meetings, and board committees, but they also offer a valuable history that reflects a prudent and responsible board. Learn best practices for recording church board minutes from our partner...
Giving & Finance
Giving & Stewardship Tips
Talking about finances in the church can be tricky. How can we as pastors cast vision about giving without sounding like we’re overly focused on money? In this video series, Life.Church Oklahoma City Pastor Chris Beall shares best practices for speaking with attenders about faithful giving, and how...
Leadership
When Ministry Hurts: Healing Your Marriage
It’s inevitable: parts of ministry are going to rock you to your core. Ministry hurts because ministry involves dealing with sinners. In this session Dr. Kim Kimberling shares how to heal your marriage after walking through a ministry hurt. Let him counsel you through some foundational practices th...