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Our family spent most of the last year in search of community at the church we were attending. As we began to share our difficulties in finding community, we heard from many others were struggling as well.
Your sign-ups are lagging. Last week only 2 women attended. The retreat’s a month out, but you’re less than half full.
If your women’s ministry historically attracts older women, persuading younger women to attend can be a real challenge.
Last week I made my bi-annual trek to the Horticulture Class Plant Sale at our local high school. I purchased two beautiful hanging baskets, flowers for the pots on our front and back porch, and several vegetable plants and herbs for our square foot garden.
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…
Several years ago 20 women in the small church I was serving in for the first Prayer Warrior Boot Camp. Our team offered this prayer training in part because our women had been reluctant to pray out loud during our Bible study time. Our facilitator would ask if someone would pray before we dismissed and…
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.
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