Mission and Vision:

Difference between Mission and Vision Mission is a general statement of ministry objectives; it is philosophic. Vision is a specific, detailed statement of direction and uniqueness: it is strategic.”

Sowing Seeds of Life

A picture is worth a thousand words!

"Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths."
Proverbs 3:3-6  English Standard Version (ESV)

                                    Sowing Seeds of Life!

  

What's Your S.H.A.P.E ?

The Shape of things to come!

A short video: Living for the Line

What's going to matter after we die!

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What's Happening close to home!

Local Heros!

Church Website in the Covid-19 season

At this time when people cannot physically be in your church...they may be looking for an online church service.

When most people look at a website...you have 5 seconds to get their attention or they are off! And they are viewing on their cell phone!

What a great opportunity to share the gospel!

You probably already have a great website, but what is most important now is to make your ONLINE church service visible on your Home page...and easy to connect with. It needs to jump out at the viewer.

Some highlights from a previous post of  mine:

You know your vision, mission and strategy to reach your goal!

How are you communicating this to your audience?

Who is  your audience?

Who do you want to reach with your website?

Why?

When anyone looks at your website they want to see the following items clearly!

1.  Your Vision Statement

2.  Your Mission Statement

3.  Your Strategy for reaching your Mission

These need to be clear and to the point!

ON your HOME page!

When most young people look at a website...you have 5 seconds to get their attention or they are off! And they are viewing on their cell phone! 

When viewing a blog or a website for the first time, if you don't get their attention with the first 5 words in your first sentence of your first paragraph...they are off!  

Check your analytics ...Are they going to another page? 

What is your Bounce Rate?

Are they landing on your HOME page?

Most viewers do NOT come to your HOME page first!

Your site must be easy to navigate.

Did you have a focus group try to find your site? 

Do you know why people are coming to your website?

How did they find it?

What did you learn from that?

A previous post. How to get viewers attention! 

10 Steps to creating your own job!

 Over the course of time...past 20 plus years...working with people looking for a job...meeting with individuals as a group and also one on one, I have proposed the following process in some way, shape or form:

This is WHAT I would do IF I were looking for a job.

I never got a job with a resume. 

AND your probably wondering if anyone got a job following my advice.
Don't really know...My good friend Wayne said once. "You can teach a person what to do but you can't make them DO what is in their best interest to do". That's a paraphrase of his comment after my voicing disappointment that with all the help & advice I have given many people especially about updating their Linkedin profile, few people follow through.  

You don't get a job because of your Linkedin Profile. It's just a tool to connect with the right people who can help you.  AND to see who the people are that are doing the job you might love to do...but only better!

So, here are  my 10 steps to Finding a Job You Can Love!

1. Identify your passion. What are you interested in...What makes you get up in the morning?

2. What company or  non profit would you ideally love to work with...NOT for. There IS a difference.

3.  Explore their website. What is their mission  and vision?

4. Connect with people working for that organization. It's really not hard to do.

5.  Take your new "connections" out for coffee...Again not hard to do. Use your creativity.

6.  What are the challenges that organization is facing...short term and long term.

7.  After taking the Strengthfinders. 2.0 Assessement...you now know or have a clue to your "Strenghts' and HOW to use them!  So you are now going to use your "Strengths"to solve their most pressing challenge!

8  Remember, You are unique! There is no one else like you.

9. Forget about  the "job description" IF you are pursuing a job with an opening... Positions that are advertised are probably already taken. Why compete...It's a losing game. 
So don't spend alot of time with that goal of submitting applications to job openings. You can do that, but...  

10. So you are now going to use your "Strengths"to solve their most pressing challenge! AND
You are going to create your own "position" and Job Description!

 On our journey with Jesus! "The trail is long, and we won't arrive at our destination in this life. Still, we're on the journey with Jesus for the greatest thrill of our lives." Zig Ziglar

Ok, if you have reached this far in my blog post...do you think it's luck, fate or providence?

What are you now going to do?

Here are a few of my prior blog posts that can help you in the process:

If you are looking for a great volunteer opportunity: 

 

If you doubt that you are unique and special. 

Helping you accomplish your vision and mission

 

How to Evaluate an organization.

 

You are partially satisfied with your present position...

 

Still looking for "Peace" in your life? 

 

Lacking joy in your quest for that job you can love? 

 

If any of this post has been helpful...please let me know.

 

 Meet for coffee?

 

Always willing to meet for coffee

 

You are special and unique!

Some Basic Foundations!

1.                 You are not an accident!

Isaiah 44:2 (I am your creator. You were in my care even before you were born)

2.                 Before you were conceived, God thought of you. Not fate, chance, luck or coincidence you are breathing here at this very moment. 

3.                 Bible says, “The Lord will fulfill His purpose for me” Psalm 138:8

4.                 God chose every detail of your body. Race, color of skin, hair, every feature. Also your natural talents…your personality. Psalm 1 39:15-16

5.                 Sometimes emphasis on spiritual gifts…not the other things!

6        That creative process did not stop at childbirth. 

7.                 God has been molding and shaping you over the years with a care that exceeds that of the most meticulous craftsman.

8.                 He put you in a unique family. 

9.                 He gave you a unique personality. 

10.                 He has given you unique abilities, and He has woven a unique assortment of motivators into the very fabric of your life 

11.            God made you absolutely unique for a purpose. 

12.            Eph. 1:4 God’s motive for creating you? Love. 

13.            God designed world’s environment so we could live in it. James 1:18

14.            Most important of all the things He made! YOU. 

15.            God made you for a reason!

16.            Part of His plan. 

17.            Precious and perfect unique design. 

18.            God’s special woman or man. 

19.            He made you like He wanted you to be. 

20.            Parents you had were the ones He chose. (no matter how bad a childhood we may have had). 

21.            May have to struggle with this…and forgive parents.   If we had a less than ideal childhood. 

22.            Guess what? WE ALL had a less than ideal childhood. 

Dreams

Many of us give up on our dreams. 

We simply don’t believe they could happen. 

Or we learned that they were unrealistic, or others didn’t support us in them.

We need to have dreams and visions. God wants us to think BIG!!

God wants to give you dreams, visions and gifts.  They are important and the body of Christ will not be complete if you don’t have them!

Dreams and visions can include:

          Ministry vision

          Helping people

          Relationally-marriage, family

          Relating to God in certain ways-intimacy

          Friendships

Purpose motivates your life! Purpose driven Life book. 

Purpose produces “Passion” (What excites you…what drives you…what makes you get up in the morning raring to go? Do you get up raring to go? (wait for a response…

When you fully comprehend that there is more to life than just here and now, and you realize that life is just preparation for eternity…you will begin to live differently. Living in Light of Eternity. Will make a difference how you handle every relationship, task and circumstance. 

What makes you tick?

What is your passion, the spark that needs only a little breeze to ignite into a raging fire?

What do you enjoy so much that you’d do it without pay?

What gives you a deep sense of satisfaction and purpose?

What do you feel you are missing in your life?

Remember: You are unique!

Giving Thanks with a Grateful Heart

 

 

 

 

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