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5 Things You Should Never Hear from Staff

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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 [...]

Top Ten Leadership Mistakes

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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 [...]

XP Seminar - last one

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 [...]

XP Seminar Day One

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 [...]

XP Seminar

So tomorrow I am leaving for the XP Seminar in Dallas, Texas. It should be interesting. This is a conference just for Executive Pastors and since Michael and I just started this job we thought it might be good to learn a little bit more about it. I’m very curious of how I will “fit [...]

Strategic Leadership Team

We will have our first meeting with the Strategic Leadership Team of Calvary Church today. It’s a group of 10 of us that will help to provide vision and strategy for achieving that vision. Our agenda for today looks like this:1. Season of Prayer - just some good old fashioned prayer in an open way.2. [...]

Homeland Security and Marko

I started the day at a meeting with Homeland Security which sounded pretty interesting. It’s a strange part of the new job that I got a call from Santa Ana Homeland Security and they were meeting with city businesses and non-profits to create partnerships and plan for any future natural disaster or terrorist act. It [...]

I Started the Move

Today I started my move up to my new office. I need to take some pictures and post them on here. I’m up in the Worship Center of our church. My new office has a big window that looks down on the auditorium of the Worship Center. It’s pretty big and cool. I am getting [...]

I Stopped Being a Youth Pastor Today

We announced to our volunteer teams today that I am now the Executive Pastor of Ministry, that Josh Simpson is the new Jr High/Student Ministries Pastor, and that Matt Doan will soon not be the H.S. Pastor anymore. It was a pretty big day with those things. I got emotional when I talked to our [...]

New Job

Well, it’s official. We announced to our Calvary Church staff today that I am moving into a new position. Starting sort of now and officially in January, I am the Executive Pastor of Ministry at Calvary Church. Michael is the Executive Pastor of Administration. If you’re not in ministry, it’s like Michael is the CFO [...]

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