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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]