TOOLS READY TO USE represents my gift to you of what God has developed through my ministry of more than thirty years.These tools can be easily downloaded to your own computer.Numerous leadership exercises are also available to help develop your leaders.All services are free to be used/adapted for the glory of God. May God bless you as you serve Him!
Some tools can be easily identified within the categories of worship, fellowship, evangelism, ministry, and discipleship. In such cases, those tools have been assigned to their specific webpage. Other documents are broader in scope and have been posted below. Click on the red file listed below to download to your computer!
Free PowerPoint Background Pictures - Set 1 - Set 2 - Set 3 - Set 4- Set 5- Set 6 - Set 7 - Set 8. Nephew photographer David Wiseman has provided free slides for your sermons. The Colorado mountain pics are stunning!
Canning What You Get – a Step-By-Step Pastoral Guide to Assimilating New Members. Develops the role of the Assimilation Director along with small group assimilation. Includes leadership exercises such as “Identifying Why People Leave.” 34,000 words in length so don't print it until you're sure!
How To Do A Purpose Driven Evening Service – combines small groups, prayer, and the five purposes in a rotating series of services that can help your people step up to home plate and hit a home run for Jesus! 33,000 words in length!
How To Measure My Church’s Effectiveness – compare your church with small, medium, and large churches in a variety of categories.Great for a leadership seminar/meeting!
How To Do A New Believer's Class And A New Member's Class - one webviewer asked for this info. Extra! New Member's Class Article. Raise Expectations Via A Membership Class.
How To Present A Visioning Service - a once-a-year visioning service is a must! Visioning Service Background Notes.
How To Do An Average Age Survey - such a survey will teach the leadership much about your church! Excel spreadsheet.
Natural Church Development - eight quality characteristics of growing churches
Top 10 Observations of Growing Churches - also includes top 10 questions every church should evaluate.
What Drives Me? Each of us is driven by many factors. We leaders need to gain an understanding of those factors. Why? Those driving factors emerge in our leadership skills and may actually hinder the development of those people who are driven by different factors.
How To Make My Church Visitor Friendly – great for a Saturday morning leadership/Sunday School meeting.
How To Organize First Impression Teams To Greet Visitors – be sure to give a great welcome and church information to every visitor.
How To Build Our Church Calendar Around 5 PDC Purposes - written by Saddleback's leadership.
How To Train Your Members For Hospital Visitation - few members know proper etiquette in a hospital.This is great training for the entire pastoral care staff. Go through this once a year and reinforce it!
How To Choose Purpose Driven Deacons - this handout for members is based on I Timothy chapter 3. Good food for thought! So many downloads have since occurred that I am now inserting my teaching notes. Download here: Teaching Notes.
How To Do The Funeral Of A Baby – one retired saint said this was the best funeral message he ever heard and “I’ve heard a lot of them.” I am sure he exaggerated, but this message may help prepare you for one of the hardest assignments of all.
How To Explain Translations – this PowerPoint presentation will enlighten everyone to the varieties within translations. Plan on one hour for this!
Template of Offerings and Attendance – this is how I know each week what our latest 52 week data is. Easy to use and analyze.
How To Do A Baby Dedication – Lifeway provided this as a guide for everyone who is called upon to do this for the first time!
Church Planting - this site is quickly developing into an one-stop-shopping site for domestic and foreign church planting.
Short-Term Missions 101 - Mission Pastor Mitch Webb has led several trips outside the U.S. Very teachable material to prepare your church for missions.
How To Plan An Annual Evangelism Strategy - Lifeway's Evangelism Planner helps you purposefully organize your year to encourage evangelism. Schedule it on purpose so you make sure it gets done!
How To Do A Pre-Election Service – includes scripts, poems, prayers ready to distribute to your members for a special November hour.
How To Do A Homegoing Tribute Service – recognize those saints who departed during the last year with a special candle, music, and PowerPoint ceremony. Very moving. Opportunity to include the community, too.
Is Your Vision Big Enough? Rick Warren gives some practical advice.
Patriotic Program - here are the files I used. Goal: involve as many ordinary church members as possible. This program does not need to be professionally done. It's a bridge event to bring in unsaved veterans. One 78 year old World War II veteran was saved as the result of this service. Tribute Slides. Program Slides. Final Slides.
How To Do A Funeral Tribute With Flowers – the red flowers stands for blood, the white flower for the right(white)eousness of Jesus, etc. A real blessing at the grave! Frustration Video - enough said!