I will post some pictures later, but we took the whole staff on these cool buses called “Cruisers” for a day away from the office. The cruisers look like old woodies with surfboards on the top and everything. We took them to the Preview Park of the OC Great Park at the old marine base [...]

We have our next staff day away today. We have done a couple Pastoral Staff Days and we have done some All Staff Prayer and Lunch times, but today is our first All Staff Day Away. I’m looking forward to it. It will have a high dose of fun, a healthy dose of food, a [...]

Tomorrow morning we will have Sr Pastor David Mitchell (P-Diddy) back in the office after three weeks of him gone. Michael and myself were in charge of Calvary Church with him being away. It’s funny to think about that at times, but then at other times I know that God has given me the leadership [...]

We will announce tonight that we have hired a new High School Pastor. The position of leading our HS Ministry will be a co-equal pairing of a man and woman. We all already know and love Melissa Brosch, but we have now added to our team…Ryan Guard!! Hooray!! Ryan is an awesome guy, a great communicator, [...]

I’m taking the Pastor/Director staff of our church on a day away. These things have been my brainchild and I’m really looking forward to it. Today will be a combination of team building, fun, and spiritual focus for our pastors. What are we going to do? We are meeting at the Santa Ana Train Station at [...]

Lately I have been thinking about the concept of change. We have had a lot of change at Calvary Church recently and it has been personally beneficial for me so it has been easy for me to accept. I like change most of the time as well so I’m not always the best barometer of [...]

I liked this post from Perry Noble, Senior Pastor of NewSpring Church in Anderson, South Carolina. I want this to be how we act at Calvary Church. “I believe there are five phrases that we should NEVER hear from someone on staff.” #1 - “That’s Not My Job.” When a staff member is asked to do [...]

I found this post on Tim Steven’s blog. I think it has some great stuff. Top Ten Leadership Mistakes by Tony Morgan Tony delivered a content-rich talk to open the Church Solutions Conference. Here are my notes from his talk about the top ten leadership mistakes he has made: Hiring Too Fast. Firing Too Slow. Every minute [...]

So the rest of the seminar was pretty good. I learned about the 5 Main Functions of an Executive Pastor - Administrator, Catalyst, Mentor, Minister, and Overseer. They were good. I learned about hiring, meetings, and other fascinating things. It’s interesting how in the Exec Pastor world you have half the people who are from the [...]

I’m at the XP Seminar in Dallas today. It’s pretty good so far. I’m definitely on the younger end of the spectrum for this group, but there are a bunch of people in their 30s here so I’m not super out of place. They all dress a bit more conservatively than I would prefer, but [...]