Leaders Away Day – vision for the future

Last Saturday 40-50 leaders at Springfield Church gathered to look at some the areas that we believe are vital for the health and growth of the church going forward.

Backwards and forwards……

Happy new year to everyone. It’s always good to review a past year and look forward to a new one. 2011 was generally a “good year” for me and mine. The economy may have been tanking, the world was in turmoil but there have been some really positive things last year.

Embedding Values – Creating Community

This is part of a series about what it would look like to embed the small group values (what we call cell groups) that Springfield believe in within our groups. How would we know that we were living them out?

Embedding Values – Becoming Disciples

This is the fourth in a shortish series (though started in September!) that has come out of a recent discussion amongst our cell leaders and pastors on how you would know if your small group was actually living out its values. We have five values as a church. These are the values that we know [...]

Embedding Values – All Involved

We have five values as a church. These are the values that we know drive our behaviour as a church and help us to work out what we should do.

How can you help your church live out its values?

This is the second in a short(ish) series on values and how you can help your church live out of them. In my last post I said I believed that values were more important than vision. But if so, how can you build a church around a set of values?

Vision and Values

I have always liked to think of myself as a visionary type. But I have been wondering whether that is always the best thing to be. I have raised aspects of this issue in the past here.

How NOT to lead a church small group

Fun video of what small groups shouldn’t be.

Let me know which one you “liked” best.

Update

By the way if you want a laugh do read the article in the Onion about “home-churching” your family. Very good.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-more-kids-being-homechurched,1793/

Creating real community

One of the great things about summer is the opportunity for building community. In fact community is one of our main drivers as a church. We look at it as one of our chief aims.

We’ve just been Visited

Quote from my bishop "you are above average I am below average".— Will Cookson (@willscookson) November 19, 2010