Sep 12, 2024 | Discipleship, Hiring, Leadership, Ministry Leader, Pastor
Many pastors we’ve spoken to recently are expressing significant difficulty in finding called and qualified staff to join their teams. We’ve been tackling this subject on the Leading from Alignment podcast, and you’ve joined us here on the blog right in the middle of...
Sep 10, 2024 | Hiring, Leadership, Ministry Leader, Pastor
Finding character-filled, talented people to add to your team is becoming increasingly challenging. The pool of available candidates seems thin right now, and we sense it could stay that way for the near future. Considering those realities, we offer Part 2 of our...
Sep 3, 2024 | Hiring, Leadership, Ministry Leader, Pastor
Over the past few weeks, more than a dozen pastors have reported to us they are trying to add staff. They have the budget for it but are finding the talent pool shallow. Some have been trying for eighteen months or more to fill a position with no movement. It is our...
Aug 27, 2024 | Leadership, Marriage, Ministry Leader, Pastor
The health of your marriage is foundational to the health of the organization you lead. The most impactful thing a pastor does for a church’s health is to have a healthy marriage. In Part 2 of their conversation with Greg and Rachelle Colegrove, founders of The Fun...
Aug 20, 2024 | Leadership, Marriage, Ministry Leader, Pastor
Other than burnout, the second highest reason pastors seek coaching or counseling is the state of their marriage (both preventive maintenance and crisis situations). The state of our marriage influences everything in our life . . . including our leadership. In today’s...
Aug 13, 2024 | Leadership, Ministry Leader, Pastor, Planning
In today’s episode John & Jim tackle the tension between the beauty of “getting stuff done” and the beast of unreached goals and accompanying feelings of failure, the striving for accomplishment at the expense of relationships, and being content with busy work vs....
