Live Blog From Orange Conference ’15: Developing A NextGen Strategy From Adam Duckworth

In an effort to add value to pastors and church leaders, I am live blogging significant portions of this week’s Orange Conference and their incomparable Senior Leader’ Track.  For pastors and church leaders, this is the most informative and thought-provocing three days you can spend all year.  It is “can’t miss” event for church leaders.

The first session was conducted by Adam Duckworth, the Lead Communicator at Downtown Harbor Church in Fort Lauderdale, FL on Creating A Strategy For Improving Your NextGen Strategy.

Before getting to Adam’s thoughts, INJOY Stewardship Solutions is offering a FREE download of Church Branding 101.  In this resource Ken Wilson, Director of NewSpring Creative, will be walking us through NewSpring Church’s recent rebranding process.  If you are unfamiliar with NewSpring, they are led by friend-of-Orange Senior Pastor Perry Noble.  You do not want to miss this.  Click here or on the image above to sign up.  Now onto Andy’s insights.

The following are 21 Leadership Quotes and Lessons from Adam’s session:

1. Unless there is someone keeping everything aligned, most likely ministries will become silos…It’s not a step. It’s a program.
2. I hate meetings. I find them to be a waste of time.
3. You have to care just as much about what the pre-school is doing as what you are doing.
4. We have found many churches spend a lot time talking about mission. We have found only a few churches spend a lot of time talking about strategy.
5. Mission is what you are going to do. Strategy is how you are going to do it.
6. Are you aligning your systems so that your staff, your leaders and your parents lead to the same end in mind?
7. For us, the end is all about relationships.
8. Discipleship best happens through relationship.
9. If you’re going to have a NextGen strategy and want them to come back, the experience gauge is very important.
10. For me, growing up in church was very boring.
11. Your experience needs to be relevant to their lives and fun.
12. Are you crafting core truths into engaging, relevant, and memorable experiences?
13. Do people like coming to the environments you are creating?
14. When was the last time you experienced (or tried to) experience your program as an outsider?
15. It would be more interesting to bring in an outsider who is unchurched to evaluate what you are doing.
16. Nobody has the ability the life of a kid like a parent does.
17. The average church leader has 40 teachable hours with a kid or teenager. The parents have an average of 3,000 teachable hours with a kid or teenager.
18. We want to tap into that 3,000 hours a parent has with their children.
19. How have you developed a strategy where parents actively participate in the spiritual formation of their ows children to build an everyday faith?
20. When was the last time you considered how your current program could help parents lead their children?
21. For some volunteer positions, there are opportunities for parents to serve alongside their children.

Be sure to check back later today for more leadership insights.

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