Archive for Case Studies
Faith in the Workplace: Ask a Career Coach Some Good Questions
Posted by: | CommentsOver the past month or so, I’ve been working with Yahoo! columnist and blogger Penelope Trunk … career coach extraordinare. She’s been a blast to work with … and just seeing the stats from her blog has made my eyes cross sometimes.
Well … she’s just released a new book called Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success.
Anyway, I was talking with her about doing a Q&A on the topic of work and career and the intersection of that with faith and spiritual values … and I thought I’d open up the brainstorming of ideas to the readers of this blog.
I think it’d be fun to poise some good questions to her about how a person of deep convictions — enter the evangelical Christian — can “successfully” live out your faith and values in the workplace.
Also … I’d love to hear some questions from pastors that they’d love to get the unique perspective of a “career coach” … both the questions and answers will be interesting to hear I’m sure.
Let’s be general about the questions. But also think about different scenarios a Christ-follower in particular might face. And the whole subject of “faith in the workplace.”
Send me an email with your ideas for questions … or fill out the contact form below.
Get Ready for Rockin Church Plants!
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Yes, it was bound to happen sooner or later! I am taking some notes from Cory Miller and will be launching a “Rockin Church Plant” series in a couple of months. Since church planting is in my blood and I can totally relate to these radical visionaries who are in the trenches daily following God’s call, I naturally have to give out some props to my band of brothers! And you can help too… Read More→
Case Study: The Q-Drive Youth Ministry Website
Posted by: | CommentsCheck out my church’s Youth Ministry’s new website — Q-Drive.
Here are some details about the site:
- Site is managed using Blogger via their FTP publishing option.
- Template is a tweaked version of Blogger’s Minima template (one of my favorites).
- Total cost: Roughly $9 for domain name. (Our hosting plan includes unlimited hosting of unique domain names.)
- It’s still in beta … we’re still tweaking it.
- I’m hoping to optimize it for search engines.
- We’re using FeedBlitz as a free email newsletter. Our youth pastor posts to the blog, FeedBlitz sees it and sends it out.
- We’re using categories (like For Parents) to distinguish posts for different audiences.
- Flickr is making photo galleries a breeze!
- Tobin Jackson rocks! (Yes, he’s our rockin’ youth pastor!)
Case Study: How We Promoted our Christmas Musical
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This may be a little too late for some of you this Christmas, but I wanted to show you the invite business card we used for our musical presentation this year. Granger calls these “invest and invite” cards.
Download a printable PDF with our Christmas invest and invite cards sample here.
Ingredients Used:
* 2,500 Business card printing from Online Print House
* IStockPhoto for the front image, then I used the color scheme for the back
* Fonts: Goudy and Garamond
My First Free Blogging Evaluation: Jerry McQuay of Between Sermons
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Pastor Jerry McQuay of Between Sermons was the first to take me up on my offer of a free blog assessment. (Get one too by simply sending me an email with your blog address.)
I asked him for permission to pass on my comments to CCP readers as a case study. Here are my suggested tweaks and observations to him:
