The Weekend Activity That Can Help Your Feel Happier…and Other Top Picks from Flipboard

September 20, 2016

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September 20, 2016

In this issue…
• The Weekend Activity That Can Help You Feel Happier…and Other Top Picks from Flipboard
• Why You Should Know the Retention Rate of Financial Givers
• VIDEO: What Can Great Protestant Churches Learn from Great Catholic Churches?
• Know Jesus…No Craft Beer/No Jesus…Know Craft Beer
• Listen: Setting Up Your Church’s Social Media Profiles

The Weekend Activity That Can Help You Feel Happier Throughout the Week – and Other Top Picks from Flipboard

by Dave Travis

Here’s a collection of interesting, thought-provoking articles from around the web from recent weeks. For more links, check out our Flipboard magazines: Leadership Network Today, Leadership Network Deep Trends, and Ideas to Implementation to Impact, where we curate the best in innovative ideas for church leaders.

1. 4 Keys to Creating a Missional Culture in Your Church (Leadnet.org) Peter Drucker is often quoted as saying, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” This might be more true in churches than anywhere else…

2. The Weekend Activity That Can Help You Feel Happier Throughout the Week (Thearda.com) The temptations to skip church on Sunday morning are many…

Why You Should Know the Retention Rate of Financial Givers

by David Thoroughman

I was recently talking with a pastor at a multisite church about the stagnant growth he was experiencing at one particular campus. The church (in general) is experiencing great attendance and giving growth across many of their campuses, with only a couple that were lagging. After asking a series of questions and learning about the ministry, I asked him: “What is your retention rate of your givers?”

In all honesty, he had never seen the value of measuring retention…

What Can Great Protestant Churches Learn from Great Catholic Churches?

by Dave Travis

My friend Bill Simon is releasing his new book Great Catholic Parishes this fall. Bill and his team from Parish Catalyst did some great research by finding some of the greatest Catholic Parishes in the U.S. and Canada and then derived the common success patterns.

Are the same patterns found in great Protestant Churches?

Watch my interview with Bill with part of that answer.

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Know Jesus…No Craft Beer?

by Eric Swanson

Know Jesus—No Evolution / No Jesus—Know Evolution
Know Jesus—No gay friends / No Jesus—Know gay friends

Are the above statements incompatible?

Last week I was talking to a Millennial co-worker in Boulder about his faith journey. Nick eagerly let me know that he was very familiar with church. He had gone to a parochial school through high school and became absolutely enamored with the beauty and logic of science during his later years of high school. It was in his senior year of high school where he was told that he couldn’t believe in God and science at the same time…

Setting Up Your Church’s Social Media Profiles

Social Media Church Episode #189

Nils and Jay talk about a couple of new trends around Facebook: Facebook for Nonprofits and Facebook Live being utilized more by churches. They go over the best practices churches and other organizations can follow when setting up social media profiles. Listen to the podcast now.

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