Question: Every pastor is an interim pastor, so when should you start planning for the next pastor? Answer: on your first day as the new pastor!
How does a pastor finish well in ministry, go the distance, hand off the baton, and leave a lasting legacy? This webinar discusses the planning steps for succession and what boards and pastors can do now to plan for what God has next.

Speakers: Glenn Gunderson, Glenn Meyers and Fred Snider
Host: Mark Bargaehr

Whether its a professional staff, or a team of volunteers, every leader is confronted with the question: Should we try and develop this person or do we need to let them go? In this LeaderConnect, Jack Hamilton spoke from his vast experience as an Executive Pastor, and reflected on a series of questions (included below) which can help all of us make wise personnel decisions.

Speaker: Jack Hamilton (High Desert Church, Victorville, CA)
Host: Doug Meye (TM Developing Pastors Lead

Develop or Replace Conundrum

1. Are you beginning to lose other people by keeping this person in the seat?

2. Do you have a values problem, a will problem, or a skill problem?

3. What’s the person’s relationship to the window and the mirror?

4. Does the person see work as a job or responsibility?

5. Has your confidence in the person gone up or down in the past year?

6. Do you have a bus problem or a seat problem?

7. How would you feel if the person quit?

( - Jack’s word/Mentor Group/Develop or Replace Conundrum)


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What are the keys to helping a church really reach lost people? In this LeaderConnect, Neal Benson, Ken Primeau and Aubrey Barnwell discussed the priority of reaching lost people in the overall mission of the church, the challenges churches face in doing so, and practical steps that can be taken in programming and worship services.

Speakers: Neal Benson (Coastline Bible Church, Ventura), Ken Primeau (Mercy Road Church NE, Carmel, IN) and Aubrey Barnwell (First New Life Missionary Baptist Church, Phoenix, AZ)
Host: David Harris (Connect Church, Mesa, AZ)

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What's going on in NextGen Ministry? Watch and listen as Eric Holmstrom (Purpose Church, Pomona), Eric Archer (Friendship Baptist Church, Yorba Linda) and Jody Livingston (High Desert Church, Victorville) share a vital discussion on the expressed needs of the next generation, and how churches can effectively reach them and involve them as important members of the church body. Hosted by Doug Meye.

A conversation between three very successful pastors and their common counselor/spiritual director about the topic of the pastors' emotional and spiritual health.

Panel: Bill Staffieri, Mark Neal, Pat Meye
Host: Doug Meye

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A conversation with churches who are are thinking and doing outside of the box to effectively reach their communities with the gospel.
Speakers: Josh Husman, Stephen Partain
Host: Willie Nolte
Originally streamed on 4-20-21

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April 13, 2021 - With Church Health Lead, Mark Bargaehr, and Pastors Kyle Bonenberger, Church Varadin and David Saenz.

Its 2021, and life is still deeply impacted by Covid 19. Some restrictions have been lifted, but with this in mind, what is your church considering for the next season of ministry? Watch Glenn Gunderson (Purpose Church, Pomona CA), David Harris (Connect Church, Mesa, AZ), Randall Tonini (Grace City Church, San Diego, CA) and Weston Brown (Covenant Shreveport, L.A) discuss the following questions:

- How is your church doing ministry right now, after a year of Covid 19?
- Are you planning to change any of this in the weeks ahead?
- What sermon series are you planning post-Easter? Why this series?
- Are you planning begin any special class, focus or ministry?
- What will you be doing for your youth and children in the weeks ahead?
- After a year of Covid season, what has been the biggest challenge to your church? How is your church better because of Covid?

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Your Church Survived 2020... Now What?
Countless church leaders are living in the tension between in-person digital ministry strategies. Digital strategies are critical for engaging people who are earlier in their spiritual journey. Physical expressions are critical for engaging people who are further along in their spiritual journey. Watch and listen as Mark Bargaehr (TM Church Health Lead) hosts a discussion with George Beardsley (High Desert Church, Victorville, CA), Matt Lewis (Beachpoint Church, Fountain Valley, CA) and Kirk Mackie (TM CHAT member, NOVO Missionary) about building a hybrid church, staff and financial health, and the future direction of your church.

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Mark Bargaehr is excited about the power of prayer, and getting to pray wiht you live at the Transformation Ministries Conference! We are going into 2022 expecting and experiencing things Only GOD can do! How about you? Register today!

Transformation Ministries Conference
February 10 -11
South Shores Church, Dana Point, CA

Info and registration at https://www.tmchurches.org/tmc-2022/

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Ministry Effectiveness
Carmen Jhaye (University Baptist Church, Palm Desert, CA)

Preparation for prayers: As Edward Deming said: Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets. Do you believe God is pleased with the results coming from your ministry? If not, what needs to be changed? What do you need to do in order to makes this happen?

Prayer Focus:

• Pray that God gives you humility and wisdom to assess the results of your ministry as God himself does?
• Pray that you would have the courage to lead change where change is needed?
• Pray that your church, and other churches in TM, would experience a year of incredible ministry fruitfulness.

Day 2: Calling to Our Cities
Stephen Partain (Grace Community Church, New Orleans, LA)

Prep for prayer: Take a 30 to 60-minute prayer walk around your community, or take a 30-minute drive around your city. As you walk/drive, ask the Lord to make you sensitive to see what He sees. What needs do you see? What or who is out of order, distressed, hurting? What opportunities present themselves? Where do you see signs that God might already be at work?

Prayer Focus: Pray while you walk/drive, giving thanks, inviting God’s intervention, perhaps offering confession. When you have finished your walk/drive, ask God if there is something he wants you to do in response to what you have seen.

Save the Date: Day of Prayer zoom meeting on January 13, at 8:30 AM

Day 4: Spiritual Power
Dane Aaker (Centerpoint Church, Colton, CA)

Preparation for prayer: How thirsty is your soul for God today? Are you fully surrendered to him? Sing the well-known chorus, "Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me. Melt me, mold me, fill me, use me..." a few times. If you prefer, simply say it out loud. As you sing, reflect on each phrase. Make this chorus your prayer.

Prayer Focus:
Surrender yourself afresh to God, and the work of His Spirit in your life.

Pray that your church would seek God, live in dependence on God, and recognize that nothing is more important than the presence of God in her life and ministry.

Pray that the churches of TM will experience a powerful, fresh and movement-wide outpouring of God’s Spirit so that we see things “only God can do!”

Day 3: Love for People
Joe Guynes (The Redeemer's Place, Weston, FL)

Preparation for prayers: Think of 3 people, including one person you really don’t like very much. What matters to each of these individuals? What do they need most? How can you love them with Jesus’ love?

Prayer Focus:
Pray that God would help you love the people in your life (oikos) proactively.
Pray that God would help you love those you find hard to love.
Pray that the church as a whole would be “baptized” with a Spirit of love, and show our society what it really means to love those who are different than we are or with whom we disagree.

Day 1: Passion for the Gospel
Andy Elliott (The Beat Church, Pflugerville, TX)

Preparation for prayer: Take some time to reflect on a moment in your life when the gospel was very real to you, and you were very excited about the gospel. What was it about the gospel message that impacted you so deeply? How did you respond to the gospel’s impact on your life? Is your heart gripped by the gospel today?

Prayer Focus:
Pray that we would have a deepened awareness of all that God has done for us in Chris.

Pray that pastors in TM churches would preach the gospel with clarity, conviction and power.

Pray that the message of the gospel would ring out in the everyday lives of our people

What Only GOD story are you prayerfully anticipating in the new year? Willie Nolte, TM CEO/Mission Lead, will be speaking at TMC 2022 on Only GOD Can Do a New Thing! Register TODAY, and get your teams to do so, too!

Registration and conference information here: https://www.tmchurches.org/tmc-2022/

TMC 2022 Only GOD
February 10-11, 2022
South Shores Church, Dana Point, CA

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Doug Meye, TM Developing Pastors Lead, invites you to participate in the Week of Prayer 2022. Check your emails every morning, beginning January 10, for a video devotional to help start your day in guided prayer. Join us Thursday morning, January 13, at 8:30 AM for a focused prayer meeting.
(More info, including Day of Prayer Zoom link, coming soon!)

Week of Prayer
January 10-14, 2022
Daily devos in your inbox

Focused Day of Prayer
January 13, 8:30 AM on Zoom
(Link coming soon)

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Someone sitting in your seats this season needs a personal meeting of surrender with Jesus! Brian Wurzell (Hillside Community Church, Rancho Cucamonga) shares an Only God Story to encourage you.

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