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If your women’s ministry historically attracts older women, persuading younger women to attend can be a real challenge.
Is your team struggling to get women to show up at your women’s ministry events and activities? If that is the case, you are not alone!
Does your team struggle with budgeting for an event? Perhaps you’ve under or overshot your budget on multiple occassions.
Publicity has the potential to make or break your event. Too little publicity and no one knows to come. Missing information in your publicity leads to confusion. We’ve made a lot of publicity makes over the years: Can you relate? Perhaps your team has had a few publicity mishaps too. How do you make sure…
Earlier this month I stumbled across this article by Eric Geiger. You may have seen it when I shared it on the Women’s Ministry Toolbox Facebook page. What God drew my attention to was the 3 questions he asked his team:
How do you strike the balance of making sure every team member has a say and empowering your team members to make decisions? I’ve sat on a team where there were no clear roles or responsibilities.
I need to apologize, the list that follows is probably going to come across a bit critical. You may view it as a list of complaints. I’ve thought about trying to re-write the whole piece from a positive angle. “10 Things I Love about Well-Run Team Meetings” or something like that.
Perhaps you can relate to our recent budget dilemma… Our women’s ministry team has been working through the initial plans for our next retreat.
The number one question I receive is “How do we get the younger (or in some cases older) women in our church to participate?”
Perhaps the idea of tackling taboo topics is one that your women’s ministry team steers clear of. You’re afraid of saying the wrong thing.
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