I remember the first time that I had to submit a budget for a ministry. Fortunately, my first budget was prepared by someone else and I simply had to administer it. I learned many things during those early years which has helped me prepare, submit, defend, and administer budgets over the years. While each church … [Read more…]
I have been to several large national conferences and they all offer excellent general sessions and breakouts. They offer a lot of good resources and you get to fellowship with many other like minded people doing their best to reach children with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Though they all strive to provide resources for … [Read more…]
It is true that we can often be our own harshest critic. Personally, I am very hard on myself. If you point out how nice my yard looks, I focus on the unseen (or sometimes seen) weeds and flaws. If you ask me how I think my breakouts went after a conference, or how I … [Read more…]
As we enter a new year, I find myself reminiscing to my days as a youth growing up in a small church. We would gather together at the church on New Year’s eve and play a few games and just in general have a time of fellowship. Then about 11:30’ish or so we would head … [Read more…]
The week between Christmas and the new year is generally a time when we look retrospectively at the year which is about to end. As we look back at 2020, I see two main lessons that we learned as we endured a global pandemic. My concern is that many will forget these lessons and go … [Read more…]
New Small Church – Blog by Karl Vaters