At today’s Staff Meeting for West Ridge Church, Tony Morgan interviewed Mac Lake on leadership. Mac is the new Chief Launch Officer for Launch Network. Launch is dedicated to training and starting new churches that will change their community for Christ. He is passionate about developing leaders and helping churches develop a leadership culture. He [...]

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Coming out of Community Makeover I get several common questions about how to pull together 80 churches, 700 projects, and 7,000 volunteers. The most common question is “How does all that happen?” In other words what is the leadership trick to pulling off a begin event. I’m not sure there is any one trick, and [...]

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One of the best decisions leaders made about this Community Makeover was to put everyone in one color shirt. This year everyone was in RED. I picked the color, so I apologize if it didn’t fit your skin tone. One of the purposes of this Community Makeover is to change some of the impressions people [...]

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At West Ridge Church we share a value with thousands of other churches. I think Willow Creek must have put this down on paper somewhere first, but here it is. “People matter to God, and, therefore, ought to matter to the church.” It’s amazing that we even have to put this one down, but we do. Being [...]

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At West Ridge Church we share a value with thousands of other churches. I think Willow Creek must have put this down on paper somewhere first, but here it is. “People matter to God, and, therefore, ought to matter to the church.” It’s amazing that we even have to put this one down, but we [...]

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So here it is, the day before a big day. 4 months ago the idea of a couple people to throw a Christmas party to families in need has turned into a God-given opportunity to touch 1500 families with the “kindness of God  that leads to repentance” (Rom. 2). The ‘party’ happens tomorrow. A couple [...]

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