Yesterday I got home from the 4th Big Idea Retreat that I’ve led with several of our staff. Every year I take 5-8 of our staff away for a couple of days and as a group, we outline the next year’s message series. Every year, I’m blown away that we’re able to do this and…
Something that I’ve had to come to grips with in the past few years is that at least in my experience, brainstorming meetings don’t work. At least not in the way that I thought they should. I’ve been a part of quite a few trainings on leading brainstorming meetings, from people who were Disney Imagineers to…
At Parkcrest United, we announced our involvement in partnership with churches in the Long Beach area to plant 50 new churches over the next 5 years in order to see our city transformed. On Tuesday, we’re holding an official kick-off event for this effort to invite even more churches, potential church planters, business and city…
I’m pretty convinced that all good leaders are also self-motivated learners. In my experience, one of the most common ways leaders learn is through reading. I don’t know why that’s the case, but whenever I sit down with a leader, I can always ask them what they’re reading, and they’ve got several books to tell…
I was spending time with someone recently about some of what we’re doing to help Parkcrest recognize that they are a people who live all of their life on mission. As we were talking, this guy asked me, “do you feel like people need to reach a certain point of maturity before they realize this…