This Easter, the only thing that matters is getting people connected to God and each other. In a guest’s journey, your efforts as a Sherpa to lead them there should be focused and unencumbered. Here are the only two things you need to be focused on.

Gut feelings and random stories might help us evaluate our ministries, but it’s data that must guide us. And while it’s one thing to gather data… the real question is how we’re using it to make informed, strategic, and personal decisions.

Find out how to transform data into discipleship with this guest post and video interview with Ronee de Leon.

Everybody needs a Sherpa when we enter the unfamiliar. It is extremely valuable to know what to expect when you step into something new. Here are a few simple steps you can take to ensure your guests know what to expect.

All our efforts to assimilate people into our church families can be undercut by an all-too-common problem: burnout.

Watch our conversation with ministry consultant and good friend Jason Young, as we discuss how the systems we create (or don’t) make all the difference.

10-15 minutes a week can help you recruit, retain, and develop volunteers more than nearly anything else you do regularly.

Here’s how to start ASAP.

Stay connected with Jesus during this intense ministry season, and help your team do the same using this Christmas prayer experience.

No matter how welcoming your church may feel on a Sunday morning, there are a few key digital factors that might be keeping people from ever making there in the first place.

Your guests are experiencing your church like a lazy river — not like a backyard pool. And believe it or not, the difference will make or break their experience.

The skills needed to be a great pastor are not the same skills needed to be a great leader. And more than likely you were left on your own to figure out how to lead people effectively.

Helping people reach the summit of full connection with God and others requires both sets of skills - that’s why we asked our friend Steve Curran (retired Navy chief, former Pastor, and current Leadership Coach) to give us some insight on developing both.

All our efforts to assimilate people into our church families can be undercut by an all-too-common problem: burnout.

Watch our conversation with ministry consultant and good friend Jason Young, as we discuss how the systems we create (or don’t) make all the difference.

Churches everywhere are in a drought when it comes to volunteers. The post-COVID mentality of church involvement has altered just about everything when it comes to serving. Here are three things that are helping in my context that could really help you as well.

I’ve re-examined my “default” language time and time again and consistently found phrases and words that I use “because I always have” — instead of “because they WORK.”

Let’s replace ineffective jargon with compelling messages that effectively drive our target audience toward meaningful action 👍

I have been contemplating a radical thought that could change how you and I do church much less how we connect people. Inspired by the far away island of Iona Scotland, read on to find a powerful way of reaching and engaging others.

Traveling in Italy isn’t always peaceful and easy, especially when you’ve checked out of your Airbnb and dragged your luggage to the train station only to find our that your train has been cancelled due to a railroad strike. Here’s what I learned and what I make of it as Sherpa Leaders for our churches now:

When was the last time you were “wowed” when you went somewhere new? When it happens to you, you never forget it. While I was in Italy, I experienced something like that multiple times. I want to share four of them here that not only blew me away, but have some obvious application to how we serve guests at our churches.

I was driving along through this rather lovely small town in Tennessee, with picturesque forested mountains all around it, I looked to my left and noticed this architectural beauty. Either this is modern art, and I am just dense… or there’s something important missing, something that could explain why you are missing out on connecting many guests who come on to your church campus.

Here are 3 powerful things to do with your guests that I learned from our Airbnb hosts on Italy. These 3 things not only made the trip for us, but made us want to return to the same Airbnbs on our next trip (the same feeling we all want the guests at our church to feel when they visit for the first time).

On my 6-week Sabbatical, I ended up learning 3 things that will help all of us who are leaders in churches actually “Sabbath” in a rest-producing way. You could even begin practicing them on your next day off to increase your need to be replenished physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

To say I am excited would be an understatement. Big new things are coming to support you in your ministry to connect more people who are new to your church.

Meet a mystery guest with some important news about Climbing the Assimilayas!