Today I want to do a leadership lesson on HOW TO VACATION.  This is such an important topic because if you vacation wrong, you will come back from your time of rest more exhausted than before you left! We have to remember that for FT staff it's paid vacation. What are you being paid to do on vacation? Rest! And if you don't come back from vacation refreshed and full of energy, ready to hit it hard, you have not done the "work" you were paid on vacation to do, which again, is to rest! … [Read more...]

We are very close to signing the lease for our new location in Agawam and the signing of that lease is going to launch us into a very busy season of ministry so today I want to talk about expectations during this very busy season. I’ve entitled the lesson BEND, NOT BREAK.  If you've ever cooked with bamboo skewers you know that they can withstand a moderate amount of applied pressure. But if you apply too much pressure they will first splinter, then … [Read more...]