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Church Administration
Leading and administrating a church is tough work. We've assembled some resources here to help you in three main areas: Facilities Management, Finances & Stewardship, and Staffing and Personnel. Connect with others, read up on the newest trends, and get answers to your Church Administration questions here!
- Facilities Management
  Keeping your church attractive, dealing with specific facility issues, and planning how to manage your facilities are all topics that we'll discuss here in our Facilities Management area. Have a question about facilities? Post it in our forum section below!
- Finances & Stewardship
  Whether it's launching a major building campaign, or finding answers to your questions about stewardship, you've found a place that you can share, connect, and learn from others. Here you'll find great articles on stewardship, some handy books on the subject, and an open forum where you can ask and learn from others.
- Personnel & Staffing
  How and when should you add to your church staff? How much should you pay your staff? How do you motivate and keep great staff members? These are just some of the questions we discuss here in our Personnel & Staffing area. Have a staffing question? Ask it in our staffing forum.
Engaging Culture
How are you and your church engaging your local culture? In this area of MMI, we look at two specific areas: specific trends that are happening in today's church, and current news stories that have some implications for the church today. We'll help you keep up-to-date on what's happening in the church / culture arena.
- Trends in Today's Church
  The church is a growing, living, exciting entity. In this section, we'll report on the good, the bad, and the ugly trends going on in the church today. You'll find examples from individual churches, polls and surveys about the church and more. And you can comment to any resources listed here, or add a question/comment of your own in our forums.
- Current Events and the Church
  Have you checked the headlines? Much of what happens today effects the church and Christians in some way. In this section at MMI, we'll look at some of the current headlines from a church perspective. You'll hopefully get a 'take' on the news here that you'll receive nowhere else!
Leadership Issues
Leading a local church is tough work, and not for the weak-stomached or nimble-minded. Let's face it... leadership is hard work. So here in our Leadership area, you'll be able to learn important leadership skills, connect with other leaders, and interact on topics like how to deal with church conflict, establishing your vision and values, and how to manage and recruit volunteers.
- Church Conflict
  It's a cold, harsh reality. As much as we wish it didn't happen, churches are sometimes the perfect breeding ground for conflict. Here you'll find resources to help you through the tough times in ministry, and timely assistance to help you persevere through even the worst church conflict.
- Family Balance for the Church Leader
  As a church leader, it's very easy to get so absorbed in the importance of your work that you end up neglecting your family. How do you balance your ministry life and your family life? You've found a great place to find some resources to help you do just that! Have a question about this area? Feel free to post it in our forum.
- Leadership Development
  Do you have a deliberate plan to develop leaders in your church? Here you'll find great tools and information on how to get it done. You'll also find some great resources that will help sharpen your own leadership skills. Plus, you can connect and get to know other church leaders to learn and grow from them as well!
- Ministry Transition
  How do you move your church from point 'a' to point 'b'? Change is difficult; and transitioning a ministry is one difficult job? So, how do you do it? How have others done it? What's hold you back? Here, maybe you'll find some answers... some things that will help you on your journey. In addition, you can ask specific questions of others here in our Ministry Transition forum.
- Vision, Values & Mission
  Does your church have a clear vision, values, and mission? Do you have on paper what you're really all about? Do you know what direction you're headed? Maybe you find all this talk of vision, values, and mission confusing? Here you can find out how to really focus on what God has for you and your church.
- Volunteer Recruitment and Motivation
  Does your church do a great job recuiting and motivating volunteers? Well, the truth is, some churches to better than others, but all churches would love to do better than they currently are. In this section, you'll find some great topics about volunteer recruitment and motivation... hopefully you'll find some things that will help you take you to the next level.
Innovative Church Models
One of the topics we really enjoy discussing here at MMI is innovation. How are people and churches innovatively sharing the gospel? That's what you'll find here... innovative church practices in church planting, emerging churches, megachurches, and multi-site churches. We even have a section about innovation in small churches.
- Church Planting
  Are you a church planter? Is your church looking a birthing another church location? Then you've found the right place. Here you'll be able to read up on all that's new and innovative in the area of church planting, and meet and interact with other church planters along your journey!
- Emerging Churches
  Just what is the emergent church? Is it the same sa the 'emerging' church? There are so many definitions and ideas out there... we hope that this section will allow you to better understand the emergent movement and discuss some areas of the emerging church
- Megachurches
  Many people have a strong dislike for megachurches. But here at MMI; we don't think all megachurches are bad. Nor do we think that just because a church is huge, that it is better than any other church. We do like to sink our teeth into this trend to see what there is to learn from larger churches (because, quite frankly, many of them are doing things that are effective). You'll find those kind of resources in this section.
- Multi-site Churches
  One church in multiple locations. The multi-site church model of ministry is really gaining strength at all size churches across the country. MMI is a clearing house for information on multi-sites for one reason: we've seen them work in communities all across the nation. If your church isn't involved in multi-site; you may well be in the future. If not; someone else in your community will soon. Find out all the details on how multi-site ministry works here in this section; and connect and discuss with those who are making it happen.
- Small Church Innovation
  Large churches aren't the only ones that innovate (but we probably hear more about them just because they are large). In this section, you'll find some success stories on how smaller churches are making a real impact in their communities. Read about others or share your story in our forum!
Ministry-Specific Help
In our Ministry-Specific Help area, you'll be able to drill down to the areas of ministry that really interest you; like worship; or youth ministry; or evangelism. Take a look and you'll find great resources that fit your ministry gifting.
Miscellaneous

I'm Todd Rhoades... the MMI guy. I'm also on the team at Leadership Network (although that doesn't mean that they endorse everything I write here). In my past life, I was the founder and developer of a website named ChurchStaffing.com.


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