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Managing your church’s hopes and dreams
Welcome to Toolbox. Helping you lead and manage volunteers and staff. As Christians, we keep time to a different drumbeat than many of the people that walk this planet alongside us. Specifically, we are different because we are open to the spiritual. Not just in a vague way but within a precise, theological framework.
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Work-life balance
We talk a lot about work-life balance. It’s something that has come up a lot since the pandemic forced millions more people to work from home, with many column inches dedicated to telling us how much better working from home is for our work-life balance, as if it was that easy for everyone.
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Great expectations
There are many expectations in our ministry – those held by church leadership, young people, parents and families and the congregation to name but a few. And when thinking about these, it’s important to distinguish between two things – expectations related to a role description (what you expect someone to do) and expectations related to a person specification (who you expect someone to be).
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I ran away from home. How God came to the rescue.
What happened when a 13-year-old girl left home?