Church Operations
Get the behind-the-scenes stuff running efficiently to support the vision of your church.
Want to Make Disciples? Shepherd Your Team.
As your church grows, your ability to know everyone’s name and story shrinks. Sure, there are still many people you know who’ve been at your church for years. However, if you want to have the same or greater impact on your congregation as it grows, then you need to focus on the number of people […]
Reset How You Manage Yourself This Year
If you didn’t get around to making New Year’s resolutions, click the link below for three simple resolutions to improve your health, time management, and leadership. No extreme diets or complicated systems required (’cause who has time for that anyway?!). Enjoy! 3 Powerful New Year’s Resolutions for Church Leadership
3 Tips to Spruce Up Your Virtual Front Door
Have you visited your church website lately? Probably not, right? You already know the service times, the topic of last week’s message, and the church statement of faith so why bother? Here’s why… According to a study by Gray Matter Research, up to 16% of those who’ve visited your website in the last year do […]
Read a Book During Your Coffee Break
We’ve all heard the saying that “Leaders are readers.” If you’re constantly pouring out what you know without taking in new material, your well of knowledge will eventually run dry. It’s not hard to convince people they should read more books; the challenge is finding the time. The folks at Ministry Library have created a […]
How to Improve Communication Between Departments
Whew, this last week was jam-packed here at Velocity! I’m sure your church is in the midst of holiday planning, so you definitely know the feeling of looking back and wondering where the week went. I wanted to get some actionable content out to you today, so I’m sending you to an article I wrote […]
4 Productivity Tools You’ll Love
When you work behind-the-scenes in the church office, you’ve got plenty of plates spinning. Coordinating events, fixing a website issue, designing a flyer for the next outreach, plus a ton of other tasks are all in a day’s work. While I can’t reduce the length of your to-do list, I can recommend the following productivity […]
What To Do When Someone’s Mad at the Church
Have you ever fielded a call or email from a less-than-happy (okay, really mad) individual? Working in the Finance department of a ministry gave me several opportunities to handle those situations. People are kinda sensitive about money issues, you know. One instance stands out in my memory. I was talking with a mom who was […]
The Untapped Power of Clear Expectations
It’s frustrating when you expect one thing and get another, right? Your volunteers didn’t handle children’s check-in how you needed them to or an employee totally misses what you’d intended for him to accomplish. What went wrong in those moments? Maybe your volunteers didn’t understand the instructions or your employee misinterpreted what you said. Regardless […]
Why do we selectively follow the Ten Commandments?
Scanning through Twitter the other day, I came across someone who works at a church who tweeted “A day off?! What’s that?” As I dug further, there were others with similar comments. Hopefully this isn’t representative of a majority of church staff members, but I’ve experienced it enough myself to know it’s not rare. Now, […]
Hidden Financial Drains to Avoid: Inadequate Facilities Maintenance
When I purchased a house several years ago, I had no clue what it took to maintain my home and property. Several months after moving in, I noticed the air filters were a bit on the brown side. I hadn’t replaced them yet. Replacing air filters, hiring a professional to perform maintenance on my A/C […]