Pastors are placed in positions to persuade. To grow your church and ultimately bring more people to Jesus, it’s critical to understand and market your Unique Value Proposition. We list the four simple questions to help your ministry team begin defining, documenting and acting on what makes your church unique.

Businesses can’t thrive without using technology to creatively and efficiently solve their day-to-day problems. Ministry shouldn’t be any different. Discover five free or affordable apps that can dramatically impact the way your ministry plans, communicates and operates.

The mantra, "Bring me a solution, not a problem," is perhaps the most over-used, mis-guided directive in organizations today – business organizations OR ministry organizations. There’s a better way. Empower anyone in your organization to document a problem, opportunity or challenge – and then come together as a team to collaboratively create solutions.

Are you preparing for 2021? A good strategic planning process doesn't just happen – it's not as simple as sending out a calendar invite for a "planning retreat" to a handful of people and then hoping that inspiration strikes. You need a strategic plan for your strategic plan. There are four specific steps that will position your organization’s planning session or retreat for success.

No single discipline can have a more immediate and beneficial impact on a ministry organization than a healthy meeting rhythm. It's why we devote an entire module of our mPower Model to meetings. Learn what a hippo, a jellyfish, and an empty chair have to do with meetings, and how your organization can take just a few steps to create more engaging, dynamic and purposeful meetings.

Ninety percent of organizations consistently miss their goals. Could it be due to simple distraction? For me, the antidote was a booth at Panera. Learn how the simple discipline of finding a “focus space” and committing at least 20 percent of your time to deep work on your organization’s “Golden Goal” can be transformational.

There are systematic ways to coax your organization to think – and act – outside the box. The authors of “The Innovator’s DNA” argue that there are five specific skills or methods to help generate innovative thinking, and perhaps the easiest and most enjoyable is known as “associative thinking.” Think of it as a mash-up of ideas from completely different industries or areas, such as… golf and church!

There is evidence from the business world to suggest that full transparency is beneficial for both the internal and external stakeholders of an organization. We provide six simple ways for faith-based organizations to introduce more transparency and build trust and engagement with their teams.

In short, Seven Marches is designed to marry the world of business with the world of ministry. Our mission statement says it all: “Equipping ministry leaders with business principles for missional momentum." The mPower Model, a ministry system comprised of – you guessed it – seven modules (or “marches”) aims to help churches and Christian non-profits operate more like effective businesses.