What a day! Seriously, there are Sundays and there are Sundays. There are Sundays as a pastor when you sit back and say, Why exactly do I do this?? Today was NOT one of those days. Four major events happened today at church:
1. Kick off New Series for August: God Love & Sex
2. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘church growth’
2 Aug
Sunday Reflections
26 Jul
Weekend Reflections
Had an amazing weekend…here are a few of the highlights…
Friday Night – SWITCH crashed at our place…. editing movies for ‘ENDZONE’ till 6am. These people only slept for about an hour and they were up again for their breakfast briefing 7am. Committed and dedicated bunch of crazy youths. Woke me up 3 times but all [...]
7 Jun
Sunday Reflections
Kick off ‘One Prayer Series’.
Title of my message in the first service “God is Faithful”.
Second Service Pastor Kirk Pankratz from Church of the Harvest preached a powerful Word – ‘God is Hope”. Kirk is great communicator.
Several people commented after the service
‘Pastor that Word was for me’.
The Word was so powerful and so moving, I was [...]
2 Jun
SWITCH Leadership Boot Camp
LifeChurch is committed to Raising, Training, Empowering and Releashing the Next Generation of Leaders. 4:00am monday morning and SWITCH (LifeChurch’s youth ministry) is on the road, from South to West Auckland.
24 Feb
Intercessory Prayer
One of the best advice I received from Pastor Tavale Mataia 5 years ago was “make sure you have praying intercessors instead of talking prayer meeting attenders”.
I’ve had some feedback on whats been happening at the intercessors prayer room on Wednesday nights. Wow….!! You guys are doing a fantastic work, labouring in the engine room. [...]
22 Feb
Weekend Reflections
Had breakfast with our leaders at our place 6am Saturday morning. That’s crazy…. Great fun… we probably woke up the neighbours…… time to catch up. Our guys are so pumped with what God is doing at church and our next season as a church.
Spent the whole Saturday thinking, preparing, studying, reading, praying…..……..
Sunday morning on the [...]
10 Feb
Growth Elements
LifeWay Research and Dr. Thom Rainer were fortunate enough to be able to study 19 of the 22 fast growing churches and discovered four common Growth Elements
1. Pastors Set the Bar
Interviews indicate the churches have taken on the vision, priorities, and values of the senior pastor. Staff and lay leaders find it easy to follow [...]
17 Dec
Change!
What changes are you prepared to make for 2009. Change will always bring conflict. Whether you are making smaller changes or big ones, you will encounter oppositions. If you are a leader making big changes for the future, make sure your heart is big enough to handle criticisms because you can’t change the future without [...]

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