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Preventative Maintenance Calendar

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:02:40 +0000

A Preventative Maintenance Calendar (PMC) is a month-by-month guide that maps out a thoughtful rhythm of how to attend to those non-daily responsibilities that often get forgotten or delayed. Like an annual checklist you might use for the preventative maintenance on your house (e.g., clean the gutters every August, change the HVAC filters every March, June, September, and December, etc.), this resource provides a quick glance at what tasks need attention in any given month. In fact, once a year, you’ll want to schedule “updating the Preventative Maintenance Calendar” into your PMC!

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Indispensable Youth Pastor

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 19:52:47 +0000

Youth ministry is one of the most rewarding professions in the world. But it also can be exhausting, overwhelming, captivating, tedious, energizing, demanding, draining, and stressful. Can you handle the pressure?

Veteran youth workers and consultants Mark DeVries and Jeff Dunn-Rankin want you to succeed-whether you’re trying to land your first youth ministry role, wishing you had more love for the job you already hold, or seeking strategies to lock in your dream job.

That’s why they’ve written The Indispensable Youth Pastor – to peel back the curtain and reveal the truths about youth ministry. They want you to understand and prepare for the unique challenges that accompany this calling. Otherwise, you’re likely to be blindsided and overwhelmed by situations that a well-prepared youth worker will handle with ease.

This book provides tools that will help you stay in the game of youth ministry for as long as God has called you and insights that can literally transform the way you approach your next (or current) role.

Chapter topics include:

Developing a search timeline that works
Where to hunt for youth ministry openings
Why acquaintances aid your search more than friends
Why the Jones Memorial Carpet matters
Initiating change without killing your ministry
Helping people embrace the ministry’s vision
Living a life that has balance and priorities
Learning to love the parts of your job you dislike

Don’t become a statistic-another person who leaves youth ministry prematurely, burned out from ministry and the church altogether. Make yourself indispensable by following the path toward landing, loving, and locking in your dream youth ministry job.

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Staff Evaluation Guide

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 21:08:43 +0000

Designed to download and go, this one page resource is perfect for the ministry leader guiding an in-depth conversation with another staff member. While some annual reviews can be anxiety-inducing and one-sided, this template provides an opportunity for both teammates to reflect, discuss, and dream together. Talk through each section as written, or pick-and-choose the questions that are right for your unique setting.

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Back to School Prayers

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 16:38:54 +0000

This set of prayer cards is perfect for the leader who wants to prioritize a focus on faith at the start of a new school year. If you’re looking for a resource that can help you equip staff leaders and volunteer teams, empower families to pray with and for one another, and teach children and youth what it means to put God first in all things, this free download is for you. Feel free to print and share, as is, or use as inspiration to customize back-to-school prayers for your own unique setting.

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ChatGPT Cheat Sheet

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 17:57:35 +0000

This resource is designed to help you learn about and get started using ChapGPT.

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Whole Family Ministry Conversation Guide

Fri, 07 Apr 2023 22:30:13 +0000

This guide is designed to be used in a team meeting to discuss what your church is doing to build a “whole family ministry.”

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Event Evaluation Survey

Sat, 17 Dec 2022 16:58:18 +0000

Every event deserves to be evaluated to ensure that each time is better than the last. This post-event survey will save you time and get you the feedback you need to make sure your next event builds on the successes of the last one.

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Curriculum Evaluation Guide

Sat, 17 Dec 2022 16:41:34 +0000

This resource will help you and your team choose the next right curriculum for your ministry by helping you to rate the attributes that are important to you. You can move forward confidently knowing that you are choosing something that fits your ministry and culture.

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Major Event Coordinator Job Description

Tue, 29 Nov 2022 22:38:55 +0000

Not every event needs to be completely designed and executed by staff. Want to know what it would be like to have a coordinator at your side tending to the details so you can focus on other ministry tasks? Take a look at this job description for this indispensable volunteer role.

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Major Event Notebook

Tue, 29 Nov 2022 22:26:18 +0000

This template will help you continue to manage events that are well-promoted, well-attended, and well-executed. You’ll use this notebook to save all the pertinent information for yearly events so that year over year, the planning gets easier and easier.

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