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Connecting Teams with Digital Signage
Here at Life.Church, we place a strong emphasis on having a vibrant, healthy culture. We don’t want our staff walking around in a fog—we want them equipped and informed. Effectively communicating culture isn’t easy in any organization, but it becomes especially difficult when your locations are...
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Four Tips for Following Through on Goals
At Life.Church, we’re not just big on goals. We’re big on accomplishing goals. Here are a few tips to not only help you get started but to help you follow through: Review throughout the year. Consistently tracking your progress goes a long way toward keeping your goal off the backbur...
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Leadership XP: The Full Time Internship
What we've learned: Here at Life.Church, we have a summer intern academy that usually lasts about three months, but our primary intern placement is for three to seven months. This longer internship program allows us to really invest in, train up, and send out young leaders who can potenti...
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Leadership XP: Laying the Groundwork for an Internship Program
Before we created Leadership XP, our internship program here at Life.Church, we needed to lay the appropriate groundwork with our staff. First, we established the goal of the program and made sure everyone was on the same page. If your goal is to grow leaders, make sure everyone knows that....
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A Year at a Glance
When you work as part of a team, everyone has different things they're focused on and contributing to, and it's important to stay organized. Many of our teams use a program called...
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Leadership XP: The Leaders of Today
What we've learned: Leadership XP, our internship program, keeps young people engaged in ministry today . We love empowering young people to lead and serve right where they are; they don't have to "grow up" to be meaningful in the church. Sometimes your most enthusiastic supporters are y...
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The Best Fit: How We Hire
Our thorough recruitment process is intentionally designed to help prevent the people we hire from later being fired. When employees not only work for your organization, but they also worship at your church, it's important to...
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Leadership XP: Engaging Young Volunteers
What we've learned: Here at Life.Church, our internship program allows young adults to serve in the church and gain experience in ministry. But we don't like to wait until a young person is college age before they're allowed to serve. We've found that if middle and high school students ar...
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Obeying God in Spite of the Data
What we've learned: "Data has a seat at the table"—it's something we say a lot here at Life.Church. The distinction is that even though we place a high value on collecting and analyzing data (that's why we created Church Metrics , after all), it still only has one seat at our decision-...
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Church Online: Reaching Past Physical Limitations
What we've learned: As Earth's population grows by leaps and bounds, God has equipped the modern church with tools that never before existed. It's our duty to do what no one else is doing in order to reach the people no one else is reaching. That's why we're so passionate about leveraging...
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