By NewChurches.com: In Episode 606 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss what it looks like to build back better in regards to team development.

In This Episode, You’ll Discover:

Why you need a structure to team development
How to create an environment that engages feedback

 Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):

“This is a great opportunity to audit your roles and audit the individuals in those roles.” – @toddadkins
“In retooling, it is a great time to take a step back and look at everything you do from the actual ministry that you do to the strategies, systems, and structures of it, to the volunteers and people themselves.” – @toddadkins
“Having a culture of development where people are learning and growing is important.” – @danielsangi
“The key factor is simple structure and systems that will help distribute the weight.” – @toddadkins
“Something as simple as a one page job description can really help you on your way to retooling.” – @toddadkins
“I recommend that all of your volunteer roles are only one year commitments and that way it forces you to do feedback.” – @danielsangi

Recommended Resources:

Listen to Episode 602: Remote Work
Listen to Episode 604: Staffing
Learn more about Ministry Grid

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By NewChurches.org: In Episode 604 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss what it looks like to build back better when it comes to staff.

In This Episode, You’ll Discover:

How do you lead out when it comes to staff
Why you need to rethink how to fill staff openings

 Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):

“The higher you go in leadership, more often than not, the less people want to tell you where you are ugly.” – @toddadkins
“Have a me-first attitude when it comes to service and living out the vision.” – @toddadkins
“You can teach whatever you want as a pastor, but you reproduce what you are.” – @toddadkins
“When you think about the team side of things and the programming side of things, it is so often that we put the programs ahead of the people.” – @danielsangi
“When you think about your team, do you have the right people on the bus?” – @danielsangi
“Just because you have a staff opening, doesn’t mean you need to fill it the same way you would pre-COVID.” – @danielsangi
“What COVID revealed is that it is more important to have the right people over the right positions.” – @toddadkins

Recommended Resources:

Listen to Episode 602: Remote Work

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Downline Ministries’ mission is to encourage a restoration of biblical discipleship in and through the local church by equipping men and women to know God’s Word and make disciples. 

The primary way we partner with churches is through the Downline Institute, a 9 month biblical discipleship training program that walks students through the Bible (Genesis-Revelation), biblical manhood/womanhood, and key discipleship lessons. Listeners can receive $100 off tuition cost by using the code LIFEWAY when you apply at www.downlineministries.com.

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By NewChurches.com: In Episode 594 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss how you lead people you don’t like.

In This Episode, You’ll Discover:

Why it’s important to learn how to handle difficult team members
How prayer can draw you closer together

 Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):

“In a multisite reality, you are not building your team from scratch.” – @danielsangi
“While you should love everyone on your staff or volunteer leadership team, it’s OK for you to like some people more.” – @toddadkins
“It’s important for you to realize that at some point in time you will end up with someone on your team that you don’t completely jive with.” – @toddadkins
“You have to manage expectations for what healthy boundaries are when you bring new people on your staff.” – @toddadkins
“We have to be friendly, professional, and courteous with everybody.” – @toddadkins
“You and your team member are both filled with the same Holy Spirit, so spend time praying for one another.” – @danielsangi

Recommended Resources:

Listen to Episode 588: The Relationship Between a Lead Pastor and a Campus Pastor
Listen to Episode 590: The Relationship Between a Campus Pastor and the Central Location Staff
Listen to Episode 592: What Ministry Planning Looks Like

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No matter how many people you have on staff at your church, there’s only so much you can accomplish in a day, right? Your church exists to serve your community, so the mission of your church and its staff is to reach as many people as you can.

So BELAY, the innovative staffing solution with over 10 years of experience serving churches with virtual assistants, bookkeepers and social media strategists, is offering a free download of their resource, ‘Church Leaders: Essential Strategies to Unleash Productivity.’

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By NewChurches.com: In Episode 589 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Ed discuss what student ministry can look like in micro-churches.

“How, as we launch micro-churches or small church plants, can we encourage and develop strong student ministries?”

In This Episode, You’ll Discover:

What student ministry looks like in micro-church context
Why student ministry volunteers are important

 Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):

“The idea is that the house church is not going to be age-graded in the same way.”  – @edstetzer
“Students will be brought into the life of the congregation as the young adults that they are.” – @edestetzer
“If it is a movement, sometimes the student ministry does connect across the movement.” – @edstetzer
“There can be community student ministry. There can be collaborative student ministry with other micro-churches.” – @edstetzer
“My experience has been that most people in micro-churches who have student age participants, they are actually involved in the life of the church and are often engaged in the student ministry of another church in town in a larger context.” – @edstetzer
“As a volunteer, you have an opportunity for profound impact.” – @edstetzer
“Perhaps your role within a micro-church context within a student ministry is about equipping students and developing them into leader-developers and disciplers who can disciple others in their context.” – @danielsangi

Recommended Resources:

Read Organic Church by Neil Cole

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No matter how many people you have on staff at your church, there’s only so much you can accomplish in a day, right? Your church exists to serve your community, so the mission of your church and its staff is to reach as many people as you can.

So BELAY, the innovative staffing solution with over 10 years of experience serving churches with virtual assistants, bookkeepers and social media strategists, is offering a free download of their resource, ‘Church Leaders: Essential Strategies to Unleash Productivity.’

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By NewChurches.com: In Episode 583 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Ed reconsider the question posed in the very first podcast about pitfalls, landmines, and blind spots in church planting.

“As a young church planter, what are some blind spots that I need to be aware of?”

In This Episode, You’ll Discover:

Why vision can cause tunnel blindness
How the tension of leadership is affecting pastors

 Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):

“Church planters get drunk with the vision.” – @edstetzer
“A key blind spot is you get obsessed with the vision and then forget other things.” – @edstetzer
“It seems like today pastoral health and family health seems to be talked about so much more.” – @danielsangi
“A lot of church planters plant a church in their head, rather than in their community.” – @edstetzer
“I’m not sure there are more pastoral failures right now, I just think we see them more.” – @edstetzer
“The pandemic is killing pastors, and it’s wounding others.” – @danielsangi

Recommended Resources:

Listen to Episode 1: Pitfalls, Landmines, and Blind Spots in Church Planting
Learn more about Resilient Church Leadership

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No matter how many people you have on staff at your church, there’s only so much you can accomplish in a day, right? Your church exists to serve your community, so the mission of your church and its staff is to reach as many people as you can.

So BELAY, the innovative staffing solution with over 10 years of experience serving churches with virtual assistants, bookkeepers and social media strategists, is offering a free download of their resource, ‘Church Leaders: Essential Strategies to Unleash Productivity.’

Let BELAY help your church live its mission in your community by helping you juggle less and accomplish more. Visit belaysolutions.com/lifeway for your free download.

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By NewChurches.com: In Episode 582 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss creating a rolling budgeting cycle instead of budgeting for an entire year at a time.

In This Episode, You’ll Discover:

How you can move from a yearly budget to a rolling budget
What to do when you have a budget surplus

 Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):

“The majority of our finances that go toward making ministry happen is what we are actually budgeting on a rolling cycle.” – @danielsangi
“We are planning ministry around an 85% budget, and if we hit 100% we would use that toward ministry initiatives.” – @danielsangi
“If you don’t end up using the surplus, you put it into reserves.” – @danielsangi
“There are always going to be ministry needs in the community that you can fulfill with your surplus.” – @toddadkins
“As a church you are stewarding Gods money for kingdom purposes.” – @danielsangi
“You don’t want to be in a place where every time something happens you are in crisis mode.” – @danielsangi

Recommended Resources:

Listen to Episode 580: The Effectiveness of One-on-One Meetings

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No matter how many people you have on staff at your church, there’s only so much you can accomplish in a day, right? Your church exists to serve your community, so the mission of your church and its staff is to reach as many people as you can.

So BELAY, the innovative staffing solution with over 10 years of experience serving churches with virtual assistants, bookkeepers and social media strategists, is offering a free download of their resource, ‘Church Leaders: Essential Strategies to Unleash Productivity.’

Let BELAY help your church live its mission in your community by helping you juggle less and accomplish more. Visit belaysolutions.com/lifeway for your free download.

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In Episode 573 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Ed discuss what to do if you inherit a building from a church that is closing.

In This Episode, You’ll Discover:

Evidence to support that this will be an increasing situation moving forward
Considerations when asked to take over a building

 Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):

“My guess is you will see a significant acceleration in the pattern of church closures.” – @edstetzer
“I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw doubling, tripling church closures over the next couple of years after COVID.” – @edstetzer
“Schools are not open or theaters, so the number one and number two places where churches met are not functionally available to them.” – @edststetzer
“Less church plants and more church closures I would think.” – @edstetzer
“When a church closes, it usually has years of deferred maintenance.” – @edstetzer
“There is significant risk, but the upside can be good if the facility is appropriate for the size of the new church plant.” – @edstetzer
“A bad building is worse than no building.” – @edstetzer
“Your focus is not a building, it’s a church plant that is connected to people.” – @edstetzer

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By NewChurches.com: In Episode 572 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Ed discuss figuring out your values when you are planting a church.

In This Episode, You’ll Discover:

How to determine what your core values are
When vision drift occurs

 Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):

“When you plant a new church you have the opportunity to articulate what are the values of your church.” – @danielsangi
“Most of the time, the values that churches have are permission to play ones or statement of faith ones.” – @danielsangi
“When it comes to reaching your community, most people aren’t going to evaluate whether they want come to your church based on your stated values, they are going to come and experience your values.” – @danielsangi
“What you embody close to your heart often become the values of the church plant.” – @danielsangi
“Make sure that the core values that you have actually move you toward the mission and the vision that God has given you for you area.” – @danielsangi
“The more you add staff and the more you add key leaders, they bring their values, and in the absence of clearly-stated core values you begin experiencing vision drift.” – @danielsangi
“Every church I planted, the vision evolved over time, but part of my job as pastor and shepherd was to make sure it didn’t drift.” – @edstetzer

Recommended Resources:

For an audit to develop the values at your church, see chapter 7 of Daniel Im’s No Silver Bullets

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By NewChurches.com: In Episode 570 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss creating teams to help with strategic and innovative thinking as you plan for the future.

“In Episode 564 you talked briefly about the innovative and strategic teams you created. Please share more about that and how they interact with each other and the rest of the teams at your church.”

In This Episode, You’ll Discover:

How to choose people for a strategic team and an innovative team
How these groups become think tanks

 Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):

“I was thinking along the lines of a cross-departmental, a cross-campus, sort of work group where essentially I was trying to get away from the lead by committee feel.” – @danielsangi
“In a church of 50 to 100, as the lead pastor you would identify who are a few really strategically minded individuals in the congregation and who are the few innovative minded individuals.” – @danielsangi
“This is not your board of elders, or even your deacons or staff, let these two groups be your advisory team.” – @danielsangi
“Create these work groups who are really going to be thinking far ahead and catapulting your ministry forward.” – @danielsangi
“I’m starting those conversation at this work group and then from those conversations I will bring it to our leadership team and our elders.” – @danielsangi
“What I am doing in these two work groups is essentially saying, ‘What’s next?’” – @danielsangi
“These two work groups essentially become those think tanks for you to bring in early on to have perspective outside your own perspective.” – @danielsangi

Recommended Resources:

Listen to Episode 564: What Established Churches Can Learn From Church Plants

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By NewChurches.com: In Episode 568 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss what systems are needed for a post-COVID church.

In This Episode, You’ll Discover:

Why you should keep your simplified systems moving forward
How contingency planning now can help you in the future

 Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):

“We are all going to have a tendency to go back to the same systems rather than take a simplified system forward.” – @toddadkins
“Carry your simplified systems forward.” – @toddadkins
“Think through what we have we learned now so that we can be more flexible in the future.” – @toddadkins
“We all wish we would have had more contingency plans in place in the past.” – @toddadkins
“We do need to make sure that we are thinking about those contingency plans because that definitely will interrupt the regular ebb and flow of what ministry looks like in your church.” – @danielsangi
“We have a cycle where we are planning ministry three times a year.” – @danielsangi
“Five year planning is off the table. We really need to think in the terms of quarter, annual, and three years.” – @toddadkins

Recommended Resources:

Listen to Episode 564: What Established Churches Can Learn From Church Plants
Listen to Episode 566: What Church Plants Can Learn From Established Churches

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