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Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
Welcome to Episode 5 of the FOUR12 Canada Podcast
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Jeremy Best is Pastor of Student Ministries at Faith St. Thomas. He is also the FEB Central Youth Director. We're excited to have him on this episode to kick off the New Year. Jeremy chats with us about the anatomy of a wave, using your gifts and passions to meet kids where they're at and how thinking long-term maximizes your impact.
Connect with Jeremy
Links from the Podcast
Recommended Reading
Good To Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't by Jim Collins
Surprise the World! The Five Habits of Highly Missional People by Michael Frost
Keep Christianity Weird: Embracing the Discipline of Being Different by Michael Frost
PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS
Anatomy of a Wave
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The strength of each wave depends on the wave before it
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If churches are going to thrive, each generation has to get behind the next generation and launch them forward
3 Practical Ways to Help the Next Generation
1. Invest:
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Pour money and resources into kids and youth ministries
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Long-term investments pay off generation after generation
2. Invite:
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Actively invite young people into leadership roles
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Take some risks when you see potential, then develop them and try to activate it
3. Entrust (or Intrust as Jeremy likes to write it for 3 I's):
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Let go and pass on your responsibilities (see Numbers 8:23-26)
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Bring someone alongside you while you're still running at full steam
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Provide opportunities for people to use their gifts and share the load of the ministry
Connect with Community
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Coach local teams to make connections with the community and build real, honest relationships with students
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Discover what you're good at and passionate about and look for ways to use that in a school or community organization
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Find a way to connect with kids who wouldn't usually come to church
Remember...
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Stick it out for the long-term to see the best results
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You're making a far bigger impact than you think you are!
Thanks for listening! We hope this episode has equipped you for greater influence through serving. We don’t want you to miss a single one, so if you haven’t done so already, subscribe to the podcast today. Please help us reach more people by writing a review!
The FOUR12 Canada podcast is a ministry of Faith Baptist Church in Huntsville, Ontario. Explore everything FOUR12 Canada at four12.ca. Thanks for spending some time with us. See you next time!
Up Next Season 1 Episode 6: Misty Phillips
on Family Ministry and Why Strategy Matters,
How to Partner With Parents and Fun Ways
to Surprise and Delight Your Volunteers
Friday Dec 13, 2019
Friday Dec 13, 2019
Welcome to Episode 4 of the FOUR12 Canada Podcast
Listen to and access the show notes here or search for FOUR12 Canada Podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Google or wherever you get your podcasts and listen for free.
Chris is the Executive Pastor of Sites and Services at Sanctus Church. On staff for 5 years and in his role now spends his time overseeing everything multisite strategy and philosophy and how that plays out in a day to day reality.
In this episode, we chat about how to lead with heart and hand, the uniqueness of his role at Sanctus and how to celebrate the character on your team.
Connect with Chris
Links from the Podcast
Quote on Character
"There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz." - Andy Stanley
PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS
What do I bring on a Sunday?
- How has God wired me?
- Know that the best thing I bring is who I am, not my abilities
Celebrate who people are, not what they do
- Let them know you care about them as a person
- Role is not just as a musician, but as a person
- Build a foundation by having a character conversation right at the audition
Ask how do they use their spiritual gifts?
Pray
- Colossians 3 church
- John 4 worship
- Psalm 78 leaders vs 72; upright heart and skillful hand
Ways to celebrate character
- Heartsy Awards are a fun way to celebrate good character
Just start!
- If you’re thinking about writing songs, just get started and commit to it
- It may take 100 songs before you get a good one but don’t give up!
Shared ownership
- Be clear in where you are headed and what a win looks like
- Serve your team so they have everything they need to succeed
- Work at catching people winning
- Remember to have fun
Thanks for listening! We hope this episode has equipped you for greater influence through serving. We don’t want you to miss a single episode so if you haven’t done so already, subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. Help us reach more people by writing a review for the podcast! The FOUR12 Canada podcast is a ministry of Faith Baptist Church in Huntsville Ontario. Explore everything FOUR12 Canada at four12.ca. Thanks for spending some time with us. See you next time!
Up Next Season 1 Episode 5: Jeremy Best on the Anatomy
of a Wave, Using Your Gifts and Passions to
Meet Kids Where They Are at, and Thinking
Long-Term Maximizes Your Impact
Friday Nov 15, 2019
Friday Nov 15, 2019
Welcome to Episode 3 of the FOUR12 Canada Podcast
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Rich Birch is the founder of unSeminary and we are excited to have him on this episode. Rich has a wealth of knowledge and we can't wait for you to hear him chat about setting up volunteers to succeed, the importance of communication and great ideas for thanking volunteers!
Connect with Rich
UNSEMINARY | EMAIL | INSTAGRAM
Links from the Podcast
Recommended Reading
The Volunteer Project: Stop Recruiting Start Retaining by Darren Kizer, Christine Kreisher and Steph Whitacre
Church Growth Flywheel: 5 Practical Systems to Drive Growth at Your Church by Rich Birch
PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS
Changing the Way You Do Ministry
- Ask questions and find out what other churches and leaders do
- Consider how you could reach more people so they come to know Jesus
Moving People Forward
- Embrace change; leaders should be moving people to somewhere new
- Volunteers push a ministry forward
- Look at how this experience will benefit the people we lead and explain why it’s so important
- Be aware that we underestimate the time it takes to get things done; stick to it because change takes more than one season
- Consistent effort in the same direction over time yields amazing results
Getting Volunteers to Stick and Stay
- Remember to communicate and encourage
- Create a volunteer care team run by volunteers
- Provide coffee, breakfast and/or lunch
- Surprise and delight people
- Offer food or drinks on occasions when they’ll be serving for a long time
- Thank volunteers regularly
- Understand their love language; not everyone feels appreciated by a thank-you card, so consider what works best for them
- Be creative: think outside the box and create a story or memory
Finding New Opportunities
- Recognize that volunteers can serve not just on Sundays but throughout the week
- Find ways that people who aren’t available on Sundays can serve at other times
- Look at new opportunities to serve (e.g., digital media that drives people to the church’s website or database management that keeps people from slipping through the cracks)
Creating a Healthy Team Atmosphere
- Find out what volunteers are looking for (e.g., building or strengthening relationships)
- Make serving experiences more relational
- Provide information and structure that sets people up to succeed (e.g., what to wear, where to park, time to arrive, basic training)
- Have co-leaders: one to be relational and one to be structural
Thanks for listening! We hope this episode has equipped you for greater influence through serving. We don’t want you to miss a single episode so if you haven’t done so already, subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. Help us reach more people by writing a review for the podcast! The FOUR12 Canada podcast is a ministry of Faith Baptist Church in Huntsville Ontario. Explore everything FOUR12 Canada at four12.ca. Thanks for spending some time with us. See you next time!
Up Next Season 1 Episode 4: Chris Vacher
Leading with Heart and Hand, the Uniqueness of His Role at Sanctus and How to Celebrate Character on Your Team
Friday Oct 18, 2019
Friday Oct 18, 2019
Welcome to Episode 2 of the FOUR12 Canada Podcast.
Listen and access the show notes here or search for FOUR12 Canada Podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Google or wherever you get your podcasts and listen for free
We are excited to have Shawna Lester. Shawna is the Director of Family Ministry/Interim Midland Campus Pastor at Connexus. She is going to share with us some amazing tips on serving weekly, keeping healthy and crazy fun things to try.
Connect with Shawna
PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS
Start with Small Steps to change the culture
- Gather a few to get on board and have them help others to catch the vision
- Develop weekly roles and roles for those that can’t,
- Help them find the best role that fits them
- Try 8 to 10 weeks to start for Elementary and younger, middle school and highschool is a longer commitment
- Attend one and serve one
Coaches - build up some coaches that will build up your team and check to see how everyone is doing.
How much is too much, ways to stay healthy
- Watch for disengagement, passion and enjoyment lacking or dwindled
- Arriving late
- As the leader make sure you check in
- Notice how often people are serving and where
How to implement crazy fun ideas
1st Filter through the mission of your church and ministry
In Children’s ministry:
- Does this help small group leaders win?
- Does this help families win?
- Does this help new people attending?
Adults or whole church:
- Make sure it’s reasonable and executable
- Practical for the space
- Think outside the box
- Consider the barriers and ways to work around them
Ways to Encourage Volunteers
- Celebrate major holidays
- Send thank you cards
- Candy
- Breakfast?! Or treats
- Good coffee
- Make sure you remove barriers to serving
- Provide a space for the kids of those that are serving
- Invest in them as people
Connecting with families
- Realize you can’t meet them all at once every week, plan to meet one family a week
- Send out Birthday cards
- Calling and talking to parents
- Ask about up coming events
Share the wins!!
- Share with others that are serving
- Share with the families
- Celebrate the wins!
One Thing to Remember!
Every person has a Place!
Thanks for listening! We hope this episode has equipped you for greater influence through serving and we don’t want you to miss a single episode so if you haven’t done so already, subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. And you can help us reach more people by writing a review for the podcast on the Apple podcast app and other podcast apps that you use. The FOUR12 Canada podcast is a ministry of Faith Baptist Church in Huntsville Ontario. Explore everything FOUR12 Canada at four12.ca. Thanks for spending some time with us. See you next time!
Up Next Season 1 Episode 3: Rich Birch
Importance of Communication, Great Ideas to Encourage
Volunteers and How to Set Up Your Team to Succeed
Friday Oct 18, 2019
Friday Oct 18, 2019
Welcome to Episode 1 of the FOUR12 Canada Podcast.
Listen and access the show notes here or search for FOUR12 Canada Podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Google or wherever you get your podcasts and listen for free.
We are excited to have Dave Lane as our first guest. Dave is Pastor of Youth and Family at Temple Baptist Church in Sarnia. In this episode, he shares some valuable and practical ways to reach young people, based on his 30 years of youth ministry experience.
Connect with Dave
Links from the Podcast
Sonlife's disciple-making training takes you back to the model - Jesus Himself - so you can do what He did
Remix Conference is a week-long interactive and hands-on urban mission experience designed to equip, train and inspire young leaders to 'center their lives within the mission and message of Jesus'.
Student Leadership University teaches each student practical and relational life skills to change the way they think, dream and lead at the feet of Jesus.
Recommended Reading
an Unhurried Leader: The Lasting Fruit of Daily Influence by Alan Fadling
PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS
3 Basic Needs
God made us with 3 basic needs:
- Secure love
- Significant purpose
- Strong hope
Listen More
- James 1:19 urges us to “be quick to listen”. We should listen twice as much as we speak!
Show Teens They’re Worthwhile
- Spend time with students to show them they’re significant
- Tell them we believe in them because they need to hear it
- Be real and authentic with them
- Earn the right to speak truth to them
- Provide strong hope and make sure they’re anchored to something strong
Help Youth Recognize God-Given Abilities and Experience God
- Encourage them to serve in their church and community
- Go on family missions trips
- Lead by example; push them by leading them
5 Step Process to Lead Young People
- I do, you watch
- I do, you help
- You do, I help
- You do, I watch
- You do it yourself
Use Your Influence
- What we do has more of an impact than what we say
- “Be prepared to give an answer” (1 Peter 3:15)
Connect with “Checked Out” Youth
- Have a non-judgemental conversation with someone who’s walking away
- Lead by your own example
- Love them
- PRAY!
One Thing to Remember!
Prioritize people over programs: programs are designed as a way to reach people
Thanks for listening! We hope this episode has equipped you for greater influence through serving and we don’t want you to miss a single episode so if you haven’t done so already, subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. And you can help us reach more people by writing a review for the podcast on the Apple podcast app and other podcast apps that you use. The FOUR12 Canada podcast is a ministry of Faith Baptist Church in Huntsville Ontario. Explore everything FOUR12 Canada at four12.ca. Thanks for spending some time with us. See you next time!
Up Next Season 1 Episode 2: Shawna Lester
Serving Weekly, Staying Healthy and Crazy Fun Ideas
Wednesday Oct 02, 2019
Wednesday Oct 02, 2019
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