What Your Church Can Do
Guthrie Veech and Bill Behrman offer practical ways churches can encourage students toward Christian colleges, vocational ministry, and a strong biblical foundation for kingdom service.
Series: Featured
The Influence of Just One
Mike Kilgallin and Clay Perkins share how one faithful encourager can help raise up generations of kingdom workers, preachers, and ministry leaders.
October 22, 2010
The Best Preparation Possible
Tracy Marx and Mike Sweeney make a biblical and practical case for Christian higher education as preparation for thoughtful, grounded, and faithful kingdom service.
October 22, 2010
Common Ground and a Common Goal
John Derry reflects on how the Matthew 9:38 Just One Challenge gives Christian colleges and universities common ground for cooperation, ministry training, and gospel service.
October 21, 2010
This is Everybody”s Job (an Interview with Bob Russell)
Bob Russell talks with Dean Collins about recruiting kingdom workers, encouraging future preachers, and helping parents and churches call young people toward ministry and Bible college training.
The Just One Challenge
Bob Russell and college presidents urge churches to pray for future kingdom workers through the Just One Challenge, a Matthew 9:38 initiative calling believers to recruit and encourage new ministers.
October 20, 2010
Just One Sunday (a Special Emphasis on Nov. 14)
Churches Invited to Pray for Harvest Workers Churches across North America are invited to join the Just One Challenge on November 14, the Sunday before the National Missionary Convention. The emphasis calls congregations to pray Matthew 9:38 and ask the Lord to raise up preachers, missionaries, and other workers for the harvest. Churches are encouraged to make Matthew 9:38 a worship-service prayer emphasis. The Just One Challenge focuses on asking God to raise up new kingdom leaders. Resources and ideas are available through the Just One Challenge website. Imagine what could happen if every church in North America began to
October 19, 2010
Extending the Call
Don Anderson outlines the final steps in hiring a new minister, from compensation preparation and preclosing calls to extending the offer, negotiating openly, and welcoming the new staff member.
October 16, 2010
The Best Pizza I Ever Had
George Ross reflects on church conflict, forgiveness, and the surprising sweetness of reconciliation suppers shared with formerly estranged friends in the body of Christ.
October 13, 2010
Hiring Resources
R. Paige Mathews offers practical resources for churches hiring staff, including tools for job descriptions, placement services, references, assessments, background checks, interviews, and compensation.
October 12, 2010
The Behaviorally Based Interview
David Limiero explains how behaviorally based interviewing can help church search teams evaluate ministry candidates through past behavior, personal involvement, and evidence of faithful leadership.
October 11, 2010
Let”s Get Together
Rob Kastens explains how Mountain Christian Church evaluates prospective staff through character, competence, chemistry, and calling to protect mission, culture, and long-term church health.
October 9, 2010
Shut Up
Janet McMahon encourages Christ followers to build authentic relationships by listening first, asking good questions, and showing genuine interest in people who are far from God.
Checking References of Ministerial Candidates
Brent Storms shares three ministry hiring lessons about reference checks, candidate strengths and weaknesses, and why churches should use a broader process when evaluating staff and church-planting candidates.
How to Get Started Selecting a New Minister
Thomas F. Jones Jr. outlines how elders and church leaders can approach hiring a new minister with prayer, clarity, integrity, and a thoughtful recruitment process.
October 5, 2010
The Playfulness of Creation
John Mark Hicks explores how God created both work and play, showing that playful rest reflects God’s delight in creation and belongs within faithful kingdom living.
October 3, 2010
Reconciled
Bruce Koblish reflects on a hard 1995 meeting with Reggie White that grew into friendship, reconciliation, and a commitment to rebuild trust across racial divides.
October 1, 2010
We Have a Dream
By Dudley C. Rutherford At the midway point of Martin Luther King”s famous “I Have a Dream” speech on the footsteps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, he mentioned the white people in attendance that day. Most are not aware there were many white people who participated in that momentous march on Washington, D.C., and others are even less aware that King addressed that segment of the crowd in his memorable monologue. In the midst of this poetic oration he says, “For many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize
September 30, 2010
“˜We Are Intentionally Multicultural”
Keele Street Christian Church in Toronto reflects kingdom diversity through a congregation shaped by many cultures, intentional welcome, and the faithful example of one Filipino family.
September 30, 2010
Forcing This Issue Is a Waste of Time
Darrel Rowland explores differing views from Brian Jones and Fernando Soto on racial reconciliation, multicultural ministry, language, culture, and whether churches should intentionally pursue multicultural worship.
