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Do things

Clark Frailey — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:15:05 +0000

"We have a 'strategic' plan. It's called doing things." -Herb Kelleher, founder of Southwest Airlines Do you get things done? Really get them done – or just talk about it? It's a lot easier to talk about lost people than to talk to them. Perhaps this is the week that you'll say – enough [...]

Don’t Give Up on Summer

Clark Frailey — Mon, 02 May 2011 14:31:35 +0000

Summer is almost here! The sun stays up longer, the temperature gets unbearable, Sunday attendance is dismal, and giving slumps so much that most church leaders say to themselves, “It’s summer so it’s time for us to take it easy!” Oh sure, we plan VBS weeks, youth camps, and maybe a mission trip. Conventional thinking [...]

Increasing Baptisms by Reducing the Barriers

Clark Frailey — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 13:05:59 +0000

I have heard it said that the wrong question is, "How can I grow my church?" and the right question is, "What is stopping my church from growing?" In the area of baptisms I think this translates well. The question is not "How can I get more baptisms?" – meaning what kind of man-made focus [...]

MeetWith.me – Relational Ministry’s Secret Weapon

Clark Frailey — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:18:20 +0000

One of my favorite leadership books is Keith Ferazzi's Never Eat Alone. If you've not yet read this book, go pick up a copy and read it tonight. It presents a comprehensive plan for networking that forces you to evaluate the time you spend with others. Along those lines I try to live my daily [...]

BetterMe – Can your church handle the truth?

Clark Frailey — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:25:02 +0000

Have you ever wondered what those first time guests really thought about the bathrooms? How was the welcome on Sunday from the greeters? Did someone chase them into the parking lot trying to get them to fill out an envelope? Better yet: is your church warm and friendly or cold and cliquish? BetterMe might just [...]

Ed Young Jr’s Rap

Clark Frailey — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:31:38 +0000

Every once in awhile a video just gets it done. Either with humor, pain, or tears. This video definitely "gets it done" in the realm of who we are in the blogging world, as we teach, and lead in ministry. It's hard when you see successful ministries that actively share their faith and reach the [...]

Crowdsourcing for the Church

Clark Frailey — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:10:58 +0000

Amazon started a service called "Mechanical Turk" nearly five years ago (today it's still in 'beta'). The main idea behind the 'turk' service is that you can assign simple tasks to human workers in exchange for micropayments. It is named after a chess playing machine made by Wolfgang von Kempelen in the 18th century. The [...]

Say Goodbye to USB Sticks!

Clark Frailey — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:48:06 +0000

It takes a really good tool for me to change from my regular routine. This tool however has altered several weekly processes for me in the creation of each week's materials at our church. If you're like me you often create media (print, video, or otherwise) on a laptop and then need to transfer those [...]

A powerful tool for online ministry forms

Clark Frailey — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:53:04 +0000

FillAnyPDF allows you to upload any PDF and turn it into a fully editable form. This has tons of applications for your church – youth trip permission forms, children's ministry volunteer applications, small group covenants, etc. The service is free but is noted as being in beta. I applied it during the recent Radicalis conference [...]

BOOK: Seth Godin’s ‘Linchpin’

Clark Frailey — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:46:14 +0000

Seth Godin's Linchpin takes a look at the artist inside of all of us. Nothing short of sparking a revolution in the way we think about our daily lives and work – Godin challenges the reader to become indispensable by engaging our work with passion instead of becoming the dull, monotonous "cogs" in a corporate [...]