The Church Office

An Interview with Terry Virgo

It was an absolute pleasure to sit down and chat with Terry Virgo about the role church administration and our good friend Nigel Ring played in enabling his work and ministry to take place.

Listen in as we touch on church planting, prophecy, developing and building teams and ways to work well together.

Road Trip to Brighton

A quick pod!  Gav and Lew travelled to East Sussex this week (you’ll have to listen in to find out why). On the way home they took a few moments to look back over the first two years of The Church Office.

12 Recommendations that Help People to Serve.

Almost every church we know has faced a shortage of volunteers over the past few years.  Gavin takes the opportunity to chat to John Truscott about his 12 recommendations that help support people in church to serve.  I love the fact that John challenges our thinking and helps us to build a culture of serving and discipleship.

 

In the video John references two training notes on his website.

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Serving in a Post-Covid Church

Every member on active service

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Bad Habits of a Church Administrator

Join Gavin and Anna Wood, the Operations Director for Cornerstone Liverpool, as they talk through the third part of our results for the Check-in survey, the Bad Habits of a Church Administrator. 

Thank you for everyone who took part in the survey and shared their Bad habits with us. 

Good Habits of a Church Administrator

Join Gavin and Anna Wood, the Operations Director for Cornerstone Liverpool, as they talk through the second part of our results for the Check-in survey, the Good Habits of a Church Administrator.

Thank you for everyone who took part in the survey and shared their Good habits with us. The result were so encouraging and inspiring.

Where are you experiencing grace?

Join Gavin and Lewis Roderick, one of the pastors at Christchurch Newport, as they talk through the first part of our results for the Check-in survey.

They talk through the struggles they faced early on in their working relationship, where people were experiencing grace in their work currently and verses that are encouraging us this year.

Doing More with Less

In this podcast Gavin and Penny share their thoughts and takeaway points from the recent UCAN Cutting Edge Conference. The theme this year was all about Doing More with Less. With fewer financial resources, fewer staff and fewer volunteers delivering “business as usual” has never been more challenging.

Story of Union

Gavin had the opportunity this week to chat to Joel Morris the Executive Director of Union.  Joel serves behind the scenes co-ordinating and leading administration and operations. He has a very interesting back ground in engineering and nuclear power, as he shares a little bit about his story.  It was lovely to hear his heart to serve and equip the church in all the aspects of their work. 

If you have not hear of Union they exists to grow leaders through their School of Theology, supporting church planting through their Mission network, as well as helping believers delight in Christ through their Publishing initiative. 

You can find out more about their work by visiting www.ust.ac.uk