GLO Night

Dayton Poe, youth pastor in Andover, shared about their youth groups outreach efforts tied to the theme of GLO.

You can contact Dayton here.

Pastoral Retreat Location - Free!

Need to get away? Mark Lehman shared about an Pastoral Retreat location just outside of the Southeast of Kansas where you can stay for up to a week with no charge - just bring your food.

The website for the retreat center - The Brook At Bethpage - is here.

You can contact Mark for more info.

Video Transfer Tools

Paul Thurston, Pastor in Hutchinson, shared concerning some cool video transfer tools he uses and a couple of useful websites. The video transfer item was a Dazzle Video Capture device that can be purchased here.  The other website the Paul mentioned was ____________________.  You can email Paul for more info.

Working and Connecting With Staff

Roy Rhodes shared about Basecamp, what he uses at Paola to stay in contact and increase effectiveness in working with paid and volunteer staff.

Here is Basecamp's web site.

Contact Roy for more info.

Fantasy Football League to Reach Men

Maranatha Fantasy Football League has grown from a handful of guys seven years ago to 90 participants for this season. Through this primarily men-focused outreach and ministry, we have seen men on the fringes or even non-attenders get connected to other men in the church and ultimately connect more deeply to God's purpose.

In addition to the game, we hold an annual tailgate party, Super Bowl party, and offer a league website to keep everyone up to speed on the now 10 different leagues hosted by Yahoo Sports. If you have a few football fans in your church, you can make this happen...

Click here for the MFFL website.

Contact Mike for more info.

Object Lesson as Message - Push Ups

Nathan Cook shared his expereience turning an email story into a powerful object lesson and message.

Contact Nathan at for more info.

Weekly Planning Sheet

Pastor Mike McAbee of Anthony suggests using a template for a more productive ministry week.

You can download the template here.

Contact Mike for more info.

Hey Kansas Minister Friend!


Have you had or found any effective ministry ideas in the past year? If so, I need your help. If not, you might need my help!

If you attended Ministers’ Renewal last year, you probably have good memories of the Idea Share Session that occurred Wednesday morning. Light bulbs went on in people’s minds all over the place. (So did red stress balls when people exceeded their time limit!) You probably remember some of the ideas: The Biggest Loser. How to start a blog. 2x3 foot posters for about $10, etc. You can still see the ideas here.

We are expecting this year’s Idea Share Session to be even more beneficial. We do not need input just to fill up time during a scheduled session at a District event. We need your well sharpened ministry idea to encourage, strengthen, and empower your fellow ministers.

At this Ministers Renewal would you be willing to share a practical idea you have used to inspire other ministers? (Original or “borrowed” makes no difference.) If it worked (is working) for you, it can probably help the rest of us!

This is how the Renewal session will lay out: 60 minutes of 2-3 minute segments of 10-12 ministers sharing one of their best practical ministry ideas with a group of stressed out, overworked, limited resourced ministers. What one practical idea would you like to tell this group of pastors and do it in 2-3 minutes?

Idea guidelines

• Practical à don’t tell us to pray, tell us how you practically get people to pray

• Doable à will work in varied settings

• Tangible à something they can get their hands on (i.e. notes, video clip, contact phone number, FAQ)

• Quick à if you go over 3 minutes, bad things may happen J

Here are some questions to get you going:

• What are you doing that is working really good that you would love to tell other pastors?

• What is a sermon series that rocked?

• What is your best specific sermon illustration – physical, video, story, etc.

• What is a ministry computer solution that you wouldn’t live without?

• What is an outreach event that you do that works?

• What are some organization methods that without them would cause you to unravel?

• What methods do you use for volunteer recruitment and staffing?

• How have you increased missions giving?

• What is an amazing Bible Study tool you use?

• How are you doing congregational communication – email, blog, newsletter, etc.

• What great source have you found and used for _________________________?

• What is a special event that rocks for your church?

• What effective Special Day promotions? Easter, Mothers Day, Fathers Day

• What is working for you concerning Visitor assimilation?

• What have you done for church promotion/marketing/creating a buzz?

• How have you greatly increased visitor flow?


This year’s Renewal is September 15-17 so please let me hear from you soon. As you can tell, I have a limited amount of time for the session but will utilize as many of these practical ideas as time allows.

Here’s how to contact me:

mark@pastor.com

www.flagchurch.com

www.markandsarahlehman.blogspot.com



Thanks for your rapid response!



Mark Lehman

Family Life AG, Pittsburg

Great physical sermon illustrations

Tim Singer - swatteamuth@hotmail.com

Tim shared some great physical sermon illustrations he has used.

One idea was about lunch boxes, tied to the feeding of the 5,000. Another idea had to do with a large dog bone, tied to the valley of the dry bones.

Great place for a ladies retreat!

Sarah Lehman - sarah@lehman.net

Sarah shared about a great place to take ladies for a retreat.

http://www.promisemountain.com/index.html

The Biggest Loser

Ryan Webster - pastorrhino@hotmail.com



Ryan shared about tweaking the TV show "The Biggest Loser" into an outreach situation.

Communion Video

Tim Fields - wheatstate@agkansas.com

Tim shared a video they made that was played during communion. It showed images of Passion of the Christ with video of the congregation superimposed.

Video is not available for posting. Contact Tim for more info.

Prayer Path - Labryinth

BJ Solander - bjsolander@hotmail.com

BJ shared about a cool tool for organzing some prayer ministery.

Click the photo or click the link - http://www.labryinth.org.uk/

Online Worship Resources

Chris Baker - baker1979@sbcglobal.net

Chris shared about some of his best online worship resources.

Sites to check for recent releases and popular tunes
www.ccli.com -- displays most used songs
www.billboard.com -- click on charts tab, look for Christian / Gospel
www.songtouch.com -- click on digital music tab
www.worshipleader.com
www.20thecountdownmagazine.com

Free resources for chord sheets
www.pwarchive.com
www.higherpraise.com

Subscriptions / Pay per chord sheet
www.delicatefade.com
www.praisecharts.com
www.ccli.com -- song select with the lead sheet option

Praying the Scriptures For Women

Kerry Clarensau - KClarensau@ag.org

Kerry shared about structuring prayer ministry for women.

Here is the link to her handout.

Softball Bloopers as sermon illustrations

Brad Young - cnbyoung@cox.net

Brad shared about using video bloopers from their softball team as main points in a message about Life's Bloopers. Missing opportunities (watching a strike go by), etc.

You can see the video clips here.

Midweek Service Enhancements

Mike Johnson - pastormikej@cox.net

Mike shared about practical guides for increasing and enhancing your midweek service.

Video on how to start a blog to upload pictures and videos

Track Core Values

Rick Glowacki - pastorrick@marysvillechristianfellowship.com

Uses a "scoresheet" to track how well the church is staying on track with their core values.

Link to Word Doc

2ft x 3ft color prints - cheap

http://www.shortrunposters.com/

Kent Duncan - kent_duncan@yahoo.com

Great spot for large (24"X36"), inexpensive ($2/each, I think, plus flat rate shipping for the whole order) poster-prints. We post candid oversized photos of our own people in the youth and children's areas, especially. You could do the same with pics from church activities, local community events, stuff like that.

* Kent was unable to attend, but sent a great idea anyway!

CORRECTION: the print outs are now 18x24, not 24x36. Still a great deal though!