Raising Up A New Generation of Church Leaders Part 1

Blogger is still malfunctioning, so we are using HTML which causes some loss of formatting. This is from a training in 2011. The topic was “How to Create Sustainable, Repeatable, and Developmentally-based Leadership Training for the 21st century” Developmental steps were laid out to help church leaders raise up new leaders. Below are two examples from this training. Classroom participants were broken into groups and encouraged to build a developmentally appropriate project timeline for multiyear curricula suitable for their respective churches. They presented their class assignments to the group as part of the applied learning process. Is your church training up new church leaders? If not, it’s time to get things back on track. Contact us at hamiltondarnallllc@gmail.com to schedule training in the Portland area. Age 4-PreK Make books, shadow boxes, stories with felt or story boards, show and tell, group games, cultural awareness, group problem solving, music, art, dance, puppet shows, plays, social skills, math and science in the natural world, large motor skills. Activities: nature walks, trike-a-thons, outdoor games, pajama parties. This is one example of age appropriate developmental milestones. Milestones are important because they are the building blocks the build strong leaders. Part 2 demonstrates the impact of a sustainable, repeatable curricula that produces capable church leaders. Stay tuned.

Urban Solutions: Ministry, Math and Melissa Data

The last post was on Urban Solutions: Creating Strategic Ministry Partnerships. If you have read our mission and vision statement, you already understand that our focus is on helping small businesses, churches and other nonprofits improve their capacity to serve others. Our premise is that employees and members must improve their own resilience in order to improve sustainability. We cannot afford to operate in isolation. Instead we need to transition to a model of healthy interdependence.

So let’s breathe some life into this by understanding the big picture. Once church leadership teams help their members understand how to implement this simple concept in their neighborhood, the steps are repeatable. Try to imagine this. Oregon has 36 counties, 471 zip codes and 1,349 profiles on populated areas. In the City of Portland alone there are over 1,200 Christian churches. By building on the work of the US Postal Service, internet maps and databases, coordination and measuring outcomes at the neighborhood is both realistic and necessary. Here is an example of what how to bring this idea down to the neighborhood level.

First, figure out which of neighborhoods are in your zip code. Then find a map of the neighborhood and identify your location on the neighborhood map. The last step is to dentify several homes and make a commitment to develop some level of relationship with someone in each household. Since that represents such a diverse area, divide the neighborhood into ten sections with the goal of developing a relationship with at least one person in each of the ten sections. If this seems like a daunting task, enlist the help of ministry partners by using entering "nonprofit organization lookup". Melissa Data allows users to enter a zip code to identify all nonprofits within that zip code. This allows church leadership teams to build strategic partnerships closest to them and build out thir resource list in concentric circles.

Donor Management Training

This is a very basic and informal workshop designed to help small churches and flegling nonprofits implement repeatable, processes to sustain funding for very small projects or community outreach programs. The workshop covers information about possible registration requirements, on-line and face to face fundraising methods, communicating with confidence, managing turn around time, and the importance of donor relations.

Donor Management Part 1

• How to Craft a Letter to Donors
• Letter of Authorization
• Non-profit Certificate
• Presenting the Request
• Closing the Agreement

Donor Management Part 2

• Understanding Donor Needs and Expectations
• Donor Relations: Guidelines for Thanking Donors
• Honoring Donor Intent
• Leveraging Donor Dollars
• Fiscal Policy and Responsible Fiscal Management
• Perceived Value