Accompaniment Leadership
It’s a tale of two leaders… The first is gifted, full of energy and new ideas—ready to take on a new position. Making decisions comes
Author: Mark Slaughter
Finding Our Way Through the Smoke
I live in the upper Midwest, and like many parts of the nation, smoke from Canadian wildfires has infiltrated our sky. It can turn the
8 Ways to Reinvigorate your Ministry
I don’t know about you, but in Minnesota we’re excited for Spring. It’s been a long and snowy winter—the prospect of warmer weather reinvigorates me
A Cold Splash of Water for Your Personal Worship Time
We need new and creative ways to practice our personal worship during Lent—a bracing splash of water on the face of our familiar Lenten practices.
Breathing New Life into Lenten Worship
For many of us, this is a tough season for worship planning. Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany are still close in our rearview mirror. And where
Planning Center
As ministry leaders, we face a unique challenge—the repetition of programming. It doesn’t matter how inspiring and powerful your worship was this Sunday, for example,
Breathing New Life into Ministry
Every repetitive thing we do in life is in danger of a dulling descent into rote. And our ministry rhythms are not immune. Week after
The Power of Partnering
By Rev. Dr. Mark SlaughterVibrant Faith Coaching Team Fall is on our doorstep, and that means we’re already working to reinvent what we do to