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"Generous Churches" Hold First Gathering
The inaugural Generous Churches Leadership Community
met in March in Dallas, with 40 participants representing
12 churches from California to New York City,
Minnesota to south Florida. In their two-year
plans, five of the churches included the hiring
of a senior staff member to be responsible for
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During a creative exercise, one church team dreamed aloud
of creating a church where people give at the levels they
are called to. The hope: A church that funds its programs,
staff and facility on 20% of its offerings, while sending
80% outside the church walls to kingdom ministries. For more information on the Generous Churches Leadership Community, which is sponsored by Generous Giving, email Byron Van Kley. |
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Halftime Leaders Visit Pura Vida Coffee
Halftime
Director Tiger Dawson and his team took 18 Halftimers
and their wives to Seattle, WA in April to meet
John Sage of Pura
Vida Coffee. Sage started the company when
he left a successful career at Microsoft to use
his business and technology skills to serve a
disadvantaged people group and help them develop
sustainable income.
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Tiger reports that participants found the experience very
rewarding and went away looking forward to beginning their
own projects. Two more Halftime Experiences are planned
for this fall.
CCN Offers "Leading from the Second Chair"
A panel of "second chair" experts will
explore the special paradoxes and opportunities
of leading from an "almost at the top"
position during the " Leading
from the Second Chair" broadcast on Tuesday,
June 6.
Leading from the Second Chair authors Mike
Bonem and Roger Patterson, along with other second
chair church leaders, are featured presenters
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the broadcast that is part of CCN and Leadership Network's
Innovation Series.
"First chair leaders will realize great benefits
when they understand these paradoxes and release their
second chairs to truly lead, " says Bonem, a second
chair leader at West University Baptist Church in Houston.
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