Your New Staff Member Already Attends Your Church (91): Hire from the inside! By doing this you are getting people who already know your vision, mission, and what you stand for. They love what the church is trying to do and they are respected by others in the church.
Put Your Money Where Your Crowd Is (92): This chapter goes over making sure that the ministries that are making the biggest difference are the ones that are getting the money and resources that it needs. It's ok to not equally distribute money and resources!
Share Critical Knowledge, Even When It Hurts (93): Whenever you have a tough situation you need to communicate it in several ways to your church as well as communicating exactly how you are feeling. However, make sure that you 1) Pick the right crowd. 2) Be honest but not hopeless. 3) Be human. 4) Allow people time to mourn the loss. 5) Get help.
Recruit Constantly (94): Always be recruiting volunteers for your ministry! Make sure that you identify, pray, ask promote, review, and encourage! It is your role as a leader to build teams and plug them into your ministry!
Avoid Creating a "Federation of Subminitries" (95): Make sure that you are staying unified! Make sure that you maintain a common budget, don't allow departmental fundraising, end ineffective minstries. Dismiss ineffective staff or leaders, etc.
Hire an Administrator before you hire a youth pastor (96): Make sure that you have someone to help handle all of the responsibilities that the staff has. By hiring someone to do this it helps to free up the staff to continue being effective in their ministry.
Put this word in your vocabulary: Newness (97): Chapter 97 went over tips on how to keep your church in a newness condition
Study Your Stats (98): Types of measurement in ministry: 1) weekly attendance 2) Weekly offerings 3) weekly attendance and revenue forcasts 4) Spiritual steps (monthly) 5) monthly financial reports 6) quarterly vision statement progress
There are no shortcuts (99): Ministry is hard work. But when you pursue Jesus he is going to lead you in the direction you need to go and he will use you to help transform people's lives.
I believe that it is important to remember that you are "working" for God and that in his ministry there really are no shortcuts. People's lives are at stake. When you keep him at the forefront of the things that you do and your ministry, you are going to be a truly effective leader.
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