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Entries in Leadership (17)

Wednesday
10Mar2010

Alignment4 Speaker Spotlight: Ed Bahler

DateWednesday, March 10, 2010 at 02:27PM

 

Written By Ed Bahler, Aspen Group President

1,500 pastors resign from their position every month due to ill-advised growth, moral failure, or contention within their church.

Why is it that some churches grow too fast, while others are stuck in place, some teams work together with remarkable synchrony, and other teams struggle?

It seems that God would want every church to be healthy, growing, alive and transforming communities. But what is it that truly frees the Spirit to work powerfully in a church and allows Him to change lives?

The Aspen Group team and their CKN partners have learned from working with hundreds of churches that the alignment of culture, ministry, leadership, and facilities creates a clear and compelling environment within a congregation. It’s this kind of environment that frees the Spirit to accomplish remarkable things.

The first session at the upcoming Alignment4 Conference will set the stage for the entire day as we explore three keys of alignment together:

  1. The alignment of ministry with culture
  2. The alignment of leadership with ministry
  3. The alignment of facilities with each of the three areas of ministry, culture, and leadership

Bill Couchenour, President of Cogun, and I will dive into these three key points of alignment and highlight how each speaker throughout the rest of the day will offer critical insight in these areas.

This is a topic so vital to your church that you can’t afford to miss it! Be there with us on March 16th in Indianapolis and discover how to fully free the spirit to transform your ministry.

Join Ed at ALIGNMENT4 and find out for yourself just how important it is to align ministry, culture, leadership and facilities.

If you would like more information about the upcoming ALIGNMENT4 conference or to register, simply visit www.cornerstoneconferences.com or call 888-595-7360.

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Friday
05Mar2010

Alignment4 Speaker Spotlight: Rex Miller

DateFriday, March 5, 2010 at 08:36AM

 

Are you Capitalizing on your Team's Strengths?

Rex Miller, futurist, author, and TAG Consultant, will be speaking for the first time at the Alignment4 Conference on March 16th in Indianapolis.  His presentation, Aligning your Leadership, will address the importance of not only having the right people on the bus, but getting them in the right seats.  
 
Using the principles and tools from the book Living Your Strengths, Rex will give a starting point for discovering your strengths and beginning the process of aligning your team.  He will share how developing and aligning roles with people's natural talents can help your team function more effectively and with greater joy, and organizations can avoid burnout and keep performance at a high level.
 
Rex Miller is author of the book The Millennium Matrix: Reclaiming the Past and Reframing the Future of the Church. He is an organizational expert with a well proven track record of building and leading high-performance teams. He recently completed a second book for the construction industry, The Commercial Real Estate Revolution, and was awarded the 2009 CoreNet Global Innovator of Year Award. 

If you would like more information about the upcoming ALIGNMENT4 conference or to register, simply visit www.cornerstoneconferences.com or call 888-595-7360.

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Friday
12Feb2010

Fishhook Event - Multicultural Ministry

DateFriday, February 12, 2010 at 05:21PM

The folks here at Aspen are excited for the upcoming Multicultural Ministry event in Indianapolis presented by our good friends and partners at Fishhook.
 
Fishhook encourages church leaders in all areas of ministry to attend the Multicultural Ministry Roundtable on Thursday, February 18, from 8:30 to 10:00 a.m. at Ben Davis Christian Church.  Author and Speaker Tracey Lewis-Giggets will dispel multicultural myths with us as she clarifies and challenges us about these issues:

  • That multiculturalism is only about race.
  • That only white people and “white” churches need diversity or cultural competency training.
  • That tolerance is the answer.
  • That multicultural ministry is easy.
  • That the world is too far gone for this to work

Please RSVP to Lindsay @ lindsay@fishhook.us by Friday, February 12.

For more information about this and other Fishhook Roundtable events, please visit http://fishhook.us/church-communication-roundtables. 

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Friday
05Feb2010

New Cornerstone Conference Website!

DateFriday, February 5, 2010 at 11:14AM

Aspen is thrilled to announce the debut of the redesigned Cornerstone Conferences website! The Cornerstone Knowledge Network partnered with the talented folks at HAAN Marketing to create the new website design – a design that aligns with the content and quality of the conference and offers a great experience for those interested in learning more about the Cornerstone Alignment4 Conference.

We encourage you to visit the site and explore the great line-up of speakers and sessions planned for the upcoming March 16th conference in Indianapolis. Whether you are a senior or executive pastor, business administrator, staff, lay leader or building team member, you won't want to miss the incredible experience and insights offered at this event.

Please don’t forget that the extended Early Bird price of $100 will end on Feb 15th. Take advantage of this great deal and register today!

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Monday
25Jan2010

Living Your Strengths

DateMonday, January 25, 2010 at 01:46PM

Guest Blogger - Rex Miller

There is a wonderful scene in the movie Chariots of Fire. Eric Liddell, the 400 meter Olympic champion, is portrayed as struggling with the choice of racing or going to the mission field. At that moment he said two very important things:

“We are all missionaries. Wherever we go, we either bring people nearer to Christ, or we repel them from Christ.”

"I believe that God made me for a purpose, but He also made me fast. When I run, I feel His pleasure."

What would it be like if we could better help people discover how God made them and then allow them to perform in such a way that they could say, "When I do (you fill in the blank), I feel His pleasure."

The current economic difficulties have placed even more demands and more pressure on organizations and their people. Organizations can avoid burnout and keep performance at a high level by developing and aligning roles with people's natural talents.

The book, Living Your Strengths, provides a starting point for discovering how God designed you.  Please join me in Indianapolis at Aspen Group’s Pastors Lunch on February 11th as I show you how to take the principles and tools from this book back to your church and begin the process of helping your teams get into the right seat so they can function with greater effectiveness and with greater joy.

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