Year: 2013
Pastor Rick Warren Returns for a New Season of Ministry
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@ churchPastor Rick Warren returns to the pulpit at Saddleback Church after a 16-week sabbatical. He and wife Kay and family and extended family and church family and God’s family have shared an agonizing experience as we’re grieved together over the loss of his son during the week after Easter. I write this blog post on…
Most people are not entrepreneurs or fundraisers
Every individual is uniquely gifted, talented, with innate strengths and abilities to more easily develop skills in certain areas of work and find it very challenging to learn other skills. And in our time and age, the opportunities for entrepreneurs and fundraisers are greatly needed, and even increasing, amisdt disruptive economic realities. The heightened volume…
Where is God when good people hurt?
Very privileged to get a tremendous opportunity last month to speak during a Sunday worship service at an ethnic Chinese church in Austin, Texas. The message was very well received, I think. The sermon was translated live side-by-side, phrase-by-phrase, from English to Mandarin Chinese, and that was followed by like 20 minutes of interactive Q&A,…
New Scoop at Yogurtland with Bugs Bunny & Friends
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@ journalNext week kicks off a buncha new flavors at Yogurtland, the awesome self-serve FroYo shop that’s now in 200+ locations. On July 8th, Yogurtland will kick off a summer promotion featuring six flavors inspired by Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety, Road Runner, Taz and Marvin the Martian, my favorite friends and yours from Looney Tunes!…
Where to Build a Free Church Website
There are a few options for churches to get a basic church website built via self-serve without having to installing software or use a credit card. Here is a list of online website builder platforms that specifically serve churches and ministries [updated June 2023]: Time is More Valuable Than Money Note, however, that time is…
Why doing a multisite church is challenging
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@ churchNo models are perfect. Some are helpful. The multisite church model — one church in multiple locations — was an innovation that’s become the new normal for American churches and other countries around the world in recent years. And a recent conversation sparked this epiphany – that using a multisite strategy is not easy. Yes,…
How to be effective by having no agenda
I enjoy meeting all kinds of people and it’s easy for me to talk with people without an agenda. I love to get to know people by sharing our stories with each other, talking about what we’re working on, and explore how to help one another in life. But, I have to confess, I get…
Top 10 Largest Churches in Orange County California
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@ churchList of the 10 largest megachurches in Orange County, California, affectionally known as the OC. (Megachurches are defined by an average weekend attendance of over 2,000, adults and children)
difference between Western and Chinese educational approaches
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@ journalAre there different approaches to learning? Of course. Here in the US of A, that’d be most obviously public vs private schools, and then there are homeschoolers and Montessori schools. Plus, there’s different ways of learning in different cultures, as aptly outlined in this op-ed by David Brooks The Learning Virtues — In the Western understanding, students…
Multilingual Churches with Multiple Languages
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As churches adapt to serving a multicultural global village and communities with more diversity, some are developing ministries in multiple languages. (cf. polyglot – someone who can speak multiple languages) Many ethnic Asian churches and other immigrant churches have done that for decades. For some ethnic Korean churches, they’re ministering in Korean and English, for Chinese…
U.S. Church Diversity has nearly doubled from 1998 to 2010
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The percentage of multiethnic churches in America has grown from 7.5% in 1998 to 13.7% in 2010, based on 2 different survey-bases studies, using a 20% minority criteria. One of the leading church researchers, Dr. Scott Thumma (Professor of Sociology of Religion, Hartford Seminary), posted this on the Huffington Post blog, Racial Diversity Increasing In…
