Complete Video Preparation for Leaders Planning a Needs Assessment
Compassion by Design has offered training helping church planters, pastors and outreach leaders to understand their community and its needs all around the nation, and the big challenge about making it available has been the problem of “time and space”—that is, only having one trainer available to [...]

Interesting study in Germany found that increased intake of fruits and vegetables have a direct impact on health and keeping your wits.  This study clearly shows the link beyond any connection to other factors.  To quote the study,
Modification of nutritional habits aimed at increasing intake of fruits and vegetables, therefore, should be encouraged to lower [...]

Sometimes things just gang up on you–and you just have to do something about it. I have had a pile of reasons to think more seriously about getting healthy. For a guy like me, being physically healthy has always come second to other concerns like work, ministry– and the enjoyment of a good [...]

Walking alongside people who are making a difference is one of my great joys. I have found that developing a coaching relationship at key moments in the life of a church that is becoming missional can accelerate progress and increase impact. In coaching I use a small group approach that allows learning to [...]

We sang this morning, “I don’t have to see it too believe it”– a kind of postmodern acknowledgement that faith doesn’t have to be dissected and analyzed using the scientific method to be real. It’s a repetition of the words of Jesus’ “Blessed are those who believe without seeing me.” (John 20:29 in the [...]