Team Building

Kem MeyerCommunications DirectorGranger Community ChurchGranger, IN
As challenging as it is to compete in today’s information-driven culture, it’s even more frustrating when your communication teams and specialists are all working with different agendas. Your messages get diluted—or worse, contradict themselves. Your audience is confused; your staff and volunteers are cranky. Time to step back, reboot & get a plan.Kem draws from more than 15 years experience in corporate communications to help increase the competitive edge of the church today. She uses a no-nonsense approach to lead a team of communications and technology professionals at GCC (staff & volunteer). Using best practices, they live to find ways to remove barriers that keep people from connecting.With more than 5,000 in weekly attendance, Granger Community Church was recently identified by Outreach Magazine as one of the 100 fastest growing churches of the 21st century.Includes audio (MP3) only.Electronic download only (29Meg)

Karen P. SmithDirector of Communications & Global InitiativesGinghamsburg ChurchTipp City, OHNehemiah, a master project manager, rebuilt the Jerusalem wall in 52 days. Learn how to apply Nehemiah’s project management techniques of scope, schedule, requirements, cost and quality management to enhance the effectiveness of your church’s communication projects. You will also explore how to build strategic partnerships with the ministries and staff teams whose messages you enhance and deploy for Kingdom impact. Special bonus! Receive copies of practical tools the Ginghamsburg communications team uses daily to bring order to chaos, including project initiation and tracking tools, quality standards, a deliverable selections tool to help ministry areas with communications planning, sample position descriptions and more. About the Presenter:Karen is the Director of Communications & Global Initiatives at Ginghamsburg Church—a large innovative United Methodist congregation of 4500+ attendees weekly in Tipp City, Ohio. Karen first became part of the Ginghamsburg leadership team in 2001 as an unpaid leader on the church’s Leadership Board, joining the senior management team with responsibility for communications in 2002. In her communications capacity, she currently leads the Ginghamsburg teams that provide all print and web-based communications including marketing, public relations and ministry support. Within the Global Initiatives arena, Karen provides oversight for Ginghamsburg’s global initiatives including The Sudan Project (www.thesudanproject.org), conferencing events and church publications, e-products, and DVD/CD-based media products. Karen, who earned project management professional (PMP) certification in the year 2000, previously served for 16+ years with a large information technology company in training, communications, staff leadership and project management roles.Over the past two decades, Ginghamsburg acquired national attention through its early innovations in multisensory worship, telling God-stories through multimedia, attracting a multicultural community, and providing extensive community outreach services. Within the past 24 months, the church has raised close to $2 million dollars from within its congregation to support its work within Darfur, Sudan.audio (MP3), handouts and slides (PDF) (51Meg)Electronic download only

MinistryCOM 2009 Keynote Session

Presenters:

Matt & Janie Mehaffey
Lead Pastor / Communications
The Pursuit Christian Church
Miami, FL

Session Description:

As a communications professional, you bring a complementary set of gifts and talents to the ministry table.  Your church needs your leadership … your unique perspective and attention to detail.

But nurturing relationships with your church’s pastors and other leaders is hard work. You must invest time and build trust before you can garner the respect needed to open avenues and remove barriers for effective communication.

In this session, Matt and Janie Mehaffey share their insight into the valuable role church communicators play in church leadership. They’ll help you see that, with a Christ-like attitude and proactive approach to developing relationships, you can change people’s perceptions from seeing you as a doer and gatekeeper to that of a trusted minister whose input they value and who they turn to when they want to make things happen.

About the Presenters:
Over the years, Matt and Janie have been able to glimpse into life on the other side of the ministry table. As a result, they have grown to understand and appreciate better the role pastors and administrative/support personnel play in church leadership, growth and health. They look forward to sharing with you their candid testimony and tips for how to nurture ministry partnerships that will help many people find their way back to God.

Matt and Janie Mehaffey met while serving on staff at Traders Point Christian Church in Indianapolis, IN – Matt as Student Minister and Janie as Director of Communications. Six years later, they married, and now they have planted The Pursuit Christian Church in Miami, FL, where Matt serves as lead pastor and Janie volunteers in administration and communications. Janie is also a Communications Strategist with Fishhook. In this role she works with churches, coaching staff and establishing systems for creating avenues and removing barriers for effective communication.

This summer, the Mehaffeys took on their most important ministry work to date … adopting their son, Chase, from Taiwan. Chase and his parents reside in Miami, FL.

Includes audio (MP3), workshop slides (PDF)
Electronic download only (19Meg)

Evan McBroom Fishhook
Highly creative ministry teams need time away from everyday ministry demands to refresh and renew—and to keep those creative juices flowing. In a very upbeat, practical, hands-on session, we’ll practice brainstorming techniques, discuss creative resources (in and out of the congregation), and explore how to lead your team in developing and implementing creative ideas.
About the presenter: Evan McBroom is dedicated to serving as a partner and resource with churches and Christ-centered organizations through Fishhook, an innovative communications and creative services company he founded in 2002. He combines the passion of his faith journey with his expertise in senior-level communications consulting from a 14-year career with one of central Indiana’s largest corporate communications and marketing companies. Evan’s areas of expertise include organizational identity/branding, strategic consulting/communications planning and promotions/event campaigns.

Includes audio (MP3), slides (PDF) Electronic download only (56Meg)

Evan McBroomPresident/FounderFishhookIndianapolis, IN
Highly creative ministry teams need time away from everyday ministry demands to refresh and renew—and to keep those creative juices flowing. In a very upbeat, practical, handson session, we’ll practice brainstorming techniques, discuss creative resources (in and out of the congregation), and explore how to lead your team in developing and implementing creative ideas.Evan McBroom is dedicated to serving as a partner and resource with churches and Christ-centered organizations through Fishhook, an innovative communications and creative services company he founded in 2002. He combines the passion of his faith journey with his expertise in senior-level communications consulting from a 14-year career with one of central Indiana’s largest corporate communications and marketing companies. Evan’s areas of expertise include organizational identity/branding, strategic consulting/communications planning and promotions/event campaigns. Includes audio (MP3) and slides (PDF).Electronic download only (34Meg)

Kem MeyerCommunications DirectorGranger Community ChurchKem draws from more than 20 years experience in communications and marketing. She uses a no-nonsense approach to lead a team of communications and technology professionals at GCC (staff & volunteer) to help increase the competitive edge of the church today. Using best practices, they live to find ways to remove barriers that keep people from connecting. Granger Community Church averages around 5,500 in weekly attendance. Includes audio (MP3), and slides (PDF)Electronic download only (12Meg)

Bill RobersonDirector of Design and CommunicationsLake Pointe ChurchRockwall, TXDeveloping a Great Communications Team (even if you’re flying solo).Regardless of how good you are, you can’t do it all alone. Learn tips for putting together a great team to make your communications ministry run more efficiently and keep yourself from burning out. In this session you’ll find out how to develop great team chemistry as well as evaluate your true staffing needs: where to look, and where NOT to look, for future staff. Learn why ‘communications as ministry’ is essential in making yourself and your team function at peak efficiency, and prevent overloading yourself and your team.About the Presenter:Bill Roberson directs the Design and Communications Ministry at Lake Pointe Church. Lake Pointe is one church, in many locations, with Community Campuses around the Dallas Metroplex. The Central Campus is located in Rockwall with other campuses in Mesquite, Sulphur Springs and Garland. He has been on staff with Lake Pointe since 2000, after leaving the design studio at Fossil Watches. Bill has a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Design from the University of North Texas School of Fine Arts and lives in the Rockwall area with his beautiful wife Jennifer, and 3 very active kids: Max, age 8, Nolan, age 6 and Abbie, age 4. Bill has been teaching in different settings for several years including Bible Fellowships, and as graphic design instructor in the arts ministry at Lake Pointe.Includes audio (MP3), Slides (PDF) and Handouts (PDF)Electronic download only (16Meg)

Greg AtkinsonFounderMultisensoryworship.comDallas, TXInnovative and effective churches know that worship planning isn’t done alone or in a vacuum, but rather in a team setting. Bringing together a senior pastor and leaders from the communication, music, creative arts and tech worlds can be quite a challenge. In this class, Greg Atkinson, Anthony Coppedge and Shawn Wood (a musician, a techie and a communication pastor) will lead in a discussion of team planning and the power of synergy.Greg became the Director of WorshipHouse Media in March of 2005, after having served as a worship pastor for the previous 11 years. Greg has a heart for God’s Church and in late 2003, launched Multisensoryworship.com—a free online resource for Christian musicians, pastors, leaders and artists. Greg continues to write and teach on worship, creative communication and media ministry. Includes audio (MP3) only.Electronic download only (36Meg)

Scott Hodge Senior Pastor, The Orchard
Scott serves as Senior Pastor of The Orchard, an 80-year-old church community in Aurora, Ill. Recently named one of America’s top 25 most innovative churches, The Orchard is a diverse church community that is making a missional impact both locally and globally.
Includes audio (MP3), slides (PDF) Electronic download only (18Meg)

Steve BrewerCommunication & Technology CatalystCommunity Christian ChurchNaperville, IL
What are the unique communication challenges for multi-site churches and how are progressive churches tackling them? What multi-site web site models effectively maintain one church brand and also communicate unique offerings at each location? How can you effectively coordinate weekly print, web, and e-mail communications across locations? If your church already has more than one location or is on the verge of going multi-site, sign up for this interactive session.Steve is the Communication Catalyst for Community Christian Church (CCC), a reproducing church which has grown from three to eight locations (5,000 in average weekly attendance) in the past two years. He is also the Communication Catalyst for NewThing, an organization offering coaching, resources, conferences, and affiliate network facilitation for church planters and churches going multi-site. Steve leads functional teams for web, print, campaign marketing, strategic insight design, and mass e-mail communications. Includes audio (MP3), handouts (PDF), slides (PDF).Electronic download only (38Meg)