Last week The Leadership Centre Willow Creek Canada presented Bill Hybels in a coaching session with about 120 church leaders in Surrey, BC. After fielding questions on a wide range of church leadership topics, one question in particular caused everyone to lean forward in anticipation of Bill’s response. The question: “What advice would you give…
Repost – Q & A with Bill Hybels
Last week The Leadership Centre Willow Creek Canada presented Bill Hybels in a coaching session with about 120 church leaders in Surrey, BC. For several hours Bill sat on a stool before these leaders and simply answered questions, which ranged from his latest leadership learnings, to the most complex church related insights. Here’s a summary…
‘That’s What Christmas is All About Charlie Brown’…Take 2
In the classic scene from Merry Christmas Charlie Brown, Linus takes centre stage and delivers a most eloquent defense of the true meaning of Christmas. Reciting from Luke’s gospel, Linus reminds the Peanuts gang, and all of us, that at its core, Christmas is about the birth of Christ. If Charles Shultz were ever to…
Repost – Leading Beyond Your Calling
Several years ago my dad served as an unpaid staff administrator at a medium-sized church near Vancouver, BC. Fresh from a top level corporate career, some of what he encountered on a church staff left him a bit puzzled as to how things work in the church world. For instance, on one occasion he had…
How Your Family Can Survive Multiple Christmas Eve Services
If you serve on the staff of a church with multiple Christmas Eve services, you may already feel the tension mounting. You know that this is one of the highest-impact seasons on the church calendar, and yet if you have school-aged children (or younger) no season of the year demands more of your family’s attention.…
