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Missions Team Development Team Leader Toolbox

How to Recruit Teammates (Part 1)

One of the responsibilities of a Team Leader is to recruit the right teammates onto your team. We’re often asked many questions around the area of recruiting, including: “How do I know if someone’s right for my team?”“How do I cast compelling vision for someone to join?”“Should I prioritize role fit, gifting, or character?” We […]

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Be Barnabas Church Planting Movements CPM

Be Barnabas – How to Partner with a NAV

I: Be Barnabas – Intro + Mint’s StoryII: Why Be Barnabas?III: Who was Barnabas from the Bible?IV: Be Barnabas – What is a NAV? V: Be Barnabas – How to Find a NAV? ————- In our previous post, we introduced how a goer might start the process of networking and finding potential NAVs to partner with. Many times, goers […]

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Be Barnabas Church Planting Movements CPM

Be Barnabas – How to Find a NAV

I: Be Barnabas – Intro + Mint’s StoryII: Why Be Barnabas?III: Who was Barnabas from the Bible?IV: Be Barnabas – What is a NAV? ————- Now that we have learned some principles from Barnabas and know what we’re looking for in a National Apostolic Visionary (NAV), how do we find one? From here, we’ll start to get into […]

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Be Barnabas Church Planting Movements CPM

Be Barnabas – What is a NAV?

I: Be Barnabas – Intro + Mint’s StoryII: Why Be Barnabas?III: Who was Barnabas from the Bible? _______ In the last couple of posts, we’ve heard from some guest contributors about who Barnabas was from the Bible and what he did to find and partner with Paul to catalyze multiplication in the 1st Century. This gives us […]

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Leadership Development Team Leader Toolbox

LF – How Do I Discern if I’m a Leader?

Leadership Foundations Part 1: LF Overview Leadership Foundations Part 2: Why Are Leaders Needed? _______ In the last two posts of the Leadership Foundations series, we covered the definition of leadership and some leadership principles, and answered the question – Why are leaders needed? In this post, we’ll explore a question that many aspiring leaders […]

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Abiding in Christ Personal Suffering Union with Christ

Lessons From Cancer: Receive Resurrection Life and Power

In the first post, Jenn described how suffering leads us to surrender. In the second post, I wrote about how Jesus wants us to surrender the self, and to surrender the self all the way to the point of death, so that he can fill us with His resurrection life and power. In this final […]

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Abiding in Christ Personal Suffering Union with Christ

Lessons from Cancer: Surrender the Self to the Point of Death

Jenn’s post shared about our initial experience of discovering Jenn had brain cancer and some of the lessons about suffering and surrender that came through that. For this post, I’ll share some of my experiences from this past season and also some of the things we’ve received from God out of being brought to a […]

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CPM Personal Thailand

625 Days & Talia’s Story

From time to time, we’ll update some about our personal lives and ministry here in Thailand. This past weekend, we had the opportunity to travel through the mountains to meet up with one of our closest Thai partners, Talia (name changed for security purposes). We’re planning to post about our past season of cancer treatment, […]

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Leadership Development Team Leader Toolbox

Leadership Foundations – Overview

All Leadership Foundations Posts:LF – Why are Leaders Needed?LF – How Do I Discern if I’m a Leader?LF – How Do I Develop as a Leader?LF – How to Form a Personal Development Plan_______ The words ‘leader’ or ‘leadership’ have a lot of broad connotations for different people. The term leader is used in sports, […]

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Church Planting Movements Team Leader Toolbox

How to Write a Strategy Plan (2/2)

In Part 1, we discussed what strategy is and is not, and some areas for learning before trying to establish a strategy plan. This post is a step-by-step guide for how to write a strategy plan for your ministry. Creating the strategy plan assumes you have received from God the end vision he has given […]