“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”
- Johann von Goethe, German poet, novelist, and dramatist

No single issue keeps pastors awake at night more than staffing!

After studying everything I can get my hands on, coaching over 1,000 senior pastors and learning from my own experience, I’ve identified the most common staffing mistakes and I’d like to share them with you…

Can you join me on a FREE Webinar TOMORROW (Wednesday, November 16) at 2pm Eastern?

I’d like to personally invite you to this 75-minute webinar where you’ll discover the three most common mistakes Senior Pastors make in leading and managing your staff!

This webinar is free for you to experience from the comfort of your home or office (all you need is a computer with speakers or headphones and internet access – no phone line or long distance required).

Here’s what you can expect to learn:

• How to overcome your growth barrier and the role of your staff to break that barrier.
• Why staffing is one of the most difficult tests of leadership and what you can do about it.
• How to measure the commitment level of every staff member . . . every day.
• Why being on a church staff is the highest calling anyone can answer and how to manage your staff according to their calling.
• Plus much more!

Since the webinar is tomorrow, CLICK HERE NOW to SIGN UP!

You’re invited to join me next week for one of 4 free webinars I’m leading called “Planning Your 2012 Preaching Calendar.”

After coaching more than 1,000 pastors over the last few years, I’ve learned that one of the best tools for reducing your stress, maximizing creativity, honoring God and working with the natural patterns of your people is planning your preaching calendar months in advance.

With that in mind, I am committed to doing everything I can to help you plan out what you’re going to preach in 2011.

My bestselling “Planning a One Year Preaching Calendar” resource lays out the principles of how to plan your preaching a year in advance, but next week I want to go a step further!

That’s why next week I’m doing a series of FREE WEBINARS for pastors called “Planning Your 2012 Preaching Calendar,” where I will literally walk you (by phone and on your computer) through the 2011 calendar during the course of our 75 minutes together and help you plan what you’re going to preach over the next year.

You can register now at this link:

www.ChurchLeaderInsights.com/preachingwebinar

This is NOT the same general training that I teach in the 1 hour preaching calendar CD resource…

Instead, I will help you APPLY the preaching calendar ”principles” to the unique makeup of the 2012 calendar.

In each of these webinars, I will walk you through:

* When, specifically, to plan your 2012 Big Days (and when not to plan them).
* The pitfalls and possibilities built into the 2012 calendar
* How to make the most of people’s natural seasonal patterns.
* The best times in 2012 for each of the 3 different types of sermon series (attraction, growth & balance).
* How to make Easter in 2012 more effective than ever at your church.
* Which days you can expect fewer people and how to best use those days.
* Plus much more!

I don’t remember being more excited about any of the webinars we’ve done than I am about these!

Church Leader Insights exists to help you “maximize your ministry” and this webinar is my virtual opportunity to sit down across the table from you (over the phone and on your computer) and walk you through this planning process.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2011
2:00pm – 3:15pm Eastern
1:00pm – 2:15pm Central
12:00pm – 1:15pm Mountain
11:00am – 12:15pm Pacific

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2011
7:00pm – 8:15pm Eastern
6:00pm – 7:15pm Central
5:00pm – 6:15pm Mountain
4:00pm – 5:15pm Pacific

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2011
2:00pm – 3:15pm Eastern
1:00pm – 2:15pm Central
12:00pm – 1:15pm Mountain
11:00am – 12:15pm Pacific

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2011
2:00pm – 3:15pm Eastern
1:00pm – 2:15pm Central
12:00pm – 1:15pm Mountain
11:00am – 12:15pm Pacific

www.ChurchLeaderInsights.com/preachingwebinar

Thanks for your continued support of Church Leader Insights and I can’t wait to talk to you next week!

If you have any questions or prefer to register by phone, simply call             1-800-264-5129      .

Remember, all you need is a phone line for the long distance call and computer access to join me on one of these webinars. Oh, and did I mention that each one is FREE!

Your partner in ministry,

Nelson

P.S. Do you know any other pastors who would benefit from one of these webinars?
Please forward this invite to them — I’d love for them to join us!

Here’s the address to sign up again:

www.ChurchLeaderInsights.com/preachingwebinar

“You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.”
- Abraham Maslow

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next to best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
— Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States

“If you’re doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.”
— Charles F. Kettering, American inventor and businessman

“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes in to us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands, and hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.”
– John Wayne, Actor

“As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time.  Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.”
- William Hazlitt, British Writer

P.S. To make the most of your time, check out Time Management for Busy Pastors.

Are you called to serve in New York City?

The Journey is a contemporary 9 year old church with three campuses in New York City (Upper West Side, Village and Queens) and one in South Florida that is currently interviewing for a new opening for a Campus Pastor position in NYC.

The Journey consistently has over 1,000 adults attending weekend services, currently has over 1,100 in groups and expects continued growth.

Are you passionate about raising up new leaders and volunteers, seeing people get connected in the church and challenging them to grow in their faith?

Are you called to be a pastor and willing to take ownership and provide primary leadership for one of The Journey’s NYC campuses?

Are you willing to work with a team to grow your campus and the church’s other campuses?

Do you have the ability and passion to lead and develop the evangelism, discipleship, stewardship, ministry and worship systems of your campus?

Do you have a high view ‘serving as part of discipleship’ and do you have a strong desire to reach unchurched young professionals?

This is a campus pastor position with the potential to make a difference with the best and the brightest from around the world that make up the Journey Church in NYC.

Responsibilities:

- Leadership, growth and innovation of a Journey campus in NYC.  You will lead day-to-day operations for that campus and oversee all of the systems for that campus.

- Serve as the primary pastor, contact person and leader for the assigned campus.

- Requires the ability to lead teams effectively and to raise up new leaders at a rapid rate.  Also, organizational and administrative skills are a must.

- The ability to teach and contribute to The Journey’s teaching team is required as well as the ability to work well with and lead staff.

- Must be extremely hard-working and have had leadership experience on a large or growing church staff.

- Other desired characteristics include strong interpersonal skills; growing leader; team builder; sense of humor; risk-taker.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

- A Solid Calling toNew York City

- The ability to manage and lead a growing campus and the systems of that campus

- A passion for the Bible and innovation

- An ability to teach, lead classes and lead meetings (volunteers/staff)

- A team player

- Experience in a large/growing church

- A positive attitude

- A familiarity with The Purpose Driven Church Model

- A risk taker

- A passion for discipleship and not letting anyone fall through the cracks

- A passion and drive for evangelism and reaching the unchurched

- A high commitment to the local church

- Non-charismatic

- Must have experience in a church of 500 or more

- Must be willing to work up to 60 hours a week when necessary

Only resumes accompanied with a COVER LETTER will be considered. 

The cover letter should be personalized for this position and should answer 4 questions:

(1) Why you are interested in this position?

(2) Have you read any books by Nelson Searcy? (Fusion, Activate, Maximize, etc.)?  Are you familiar with the 8 Systems of the Church and the semester-based small groups model?

(3) Why you would feel comfortable relocating toNew York City?

(4) And what about you makes you stand out from other candidates for this position?

*Also – if you have a recent video/audio of you teaching in front of a group (large or small) – please include that along with your resume and cover letter.

Please send cover letters and resumes to cristina <at> journeymetro.com.

One thing I’ve learned over and over again is that time is our most limited commodity in this life.

And how you manage it determines a lot about what you get done.

I’ve shared before that I’m a long-term student of time management and I just re-read this quote:

“The key to successful time management is doing the most important task first, and giving it your full concentration, to the exclusion of everything else.”
– Alex MacKenzie

One of the biggest hindrances to effective time management is what I call “the myth of multi-tasking.”

With cell phones, texting, social media, always-on email clients and instant access to everything, we’re often fooled into thinking that “multi-tasking” is a good thing.

The truth is, however, that there is no such thing as multi-tasking… our brains weren’t designed to process more than one item at any given time.

Don’t believe me?  Try reading a book while carrying on a phone conversation, then hang up and write down what you read and the details of the call

Here’s my suggestion if you want to get the most out of the time you’re given each day:

Develop an ability to focus like a laser on one task at a time, and see how God uses it.

I guarantee you’ll see increased productivity, a higher level of excellence in what you’re working on and more satisfaction at the end of each day.

To getting more done,

Nelson

P.S. For 34 tested and proven time management practices that you can start implementing today, check out Time Management for Busy Pastors.