Category: Ministry

We work with a ministry in Campus Crusade called Digital Strategies. Over the next few months they are holding 3 “Indigitous” Conferences outside of the U.S. for the purpose of making “Digital Strategies to Call People to Jesus”. http://www.indigitous.org/ Digital Strategies is looking for existing online tools they can use for specific ministry applications. Our…

Our ministry, Campus Crusade for Christ International, is structuring the leadership so it is shared more by a group and less from a total “top-down” structure. The group are leaders in a certain area of expertise (Student Ministries, City Ministries as well as Human Resources, Finance, Technical, and Operations). This style of leadership requires a…

Our team built a WIG (Wildly Important Goal) of releasing 300 personal ministry websites by the end of July. We used a method of setting goals while continuing to work on the day-to-day routine by following The Four Disciplines of Execution by McChesney and Covey. It was extremely helpful to separate the “where do we want to…

Our team is trying to reach a self-imposed goal of 300 ministry websites “released” by July 31. Part of that involves regular workshops for GCX (www.gcx.org) training. All of us have conducted training several times this year, including at the Cru Staff Conference in Colorado earlier this month. Here is David Hand (our team leader)…

Holly and I finished the first day of the 2013 Cru staff conference. Several thousand of “our closest friends” have gathered with us. After registration, the first day was designed to be a big reunion of co-workers–some of whom we haven’t seen for several years because they have been serving in different countries. It was…

We are preparing to leave for Cru’s Staff Conference in Colorado. This is held every two years, in mid-July, at Colorado State University. I compare it to running a long race. When I ran a half-marathon last year, the race organizers did not assume all the runners could get through the 13.1 miles happily on…

Pictured here, in an Ethiopian restaurant are bottom row:  Kay, Karin, David H, and Kelly. (top row) Miheret and myself. Our trip to Africa had 2 main objectives. The first was to help our missionaries build a personal website with our tool, the Global ConneXion, or GCX.  We did this in 2-day classes in the…

“Thank you for helping me build a website. I never would have dreamed I could have my own website,” said Charles (pictured here with the striped shirt) Charles is Zambian and serves with Athletes in Action, a Campus Crusade ministry.  My team trained 26 people in Zambia this week how to make personal ministry websites…

As Marc Bostrom and I were setting up for a conference April 9, he told me about his ballpark ministry. Marc is a superfan who has already visited over 140 baseball stadiums. He has attended games in all of the Major League baseball parks and is striving to visit all 160 Minor League parks. A…