From the monthly archives:

March 2009

Blackout!

March 31, 2009 Group Leadership

This is truly bizarre. I am typing a post by the glow of my MacBook screen, with a bunch of candles and a kerosene lantern nearby. The wood stove is stoked up for some heat since it’s cold and the temp should drop into the 30′s in a while. I don’t know how low, because [...]

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Stories and Statistics

March 18, 2009 Ministry Leadership

At one of our Small Groups Advanced Training events, Russ Robinson had a great line: The effectiveness of your small group ministry can be monitored by the statistics you track and the stories you hear. A few years back I tried to convince my boss that this was true. Unfortunately, he had a bad case [...]

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