The Bluff Church Volunteer Leadership Podcast: Recent Episodes
The Bluff Church
The Bluff Church is a church with the vision to be a church for people who have given up on church. Located in Poplar Bluff, MO, The Bluff seeks to accomplish its vision by focussing on loving God and loving people.
This podcast is to help train our church leaders in a variety of ministries with stream-lined content that can easily be applied to their ministry programs and areas of service.
In this episode, we just briefly lay out the vision of what this entire podcast is aimed to accomplish.
In this episode, we discuss how to deal with the awkward silences we face in groups and meetings.
In this episode, we talk about finding ways to self-encourage yourself to help get you through the difficult times of leading.
In this episode, we briefly address 2 ways to communicating well:
1) Remind people of the story behind everything that's going on.
2) Build Trust.
In this episode, we talk about why it is important to keep our vision always forward on the long game in our service and leading.
In this episode, we briefly discuss a strategy for how you can handle conflict on your teams.
In this episode, we discuss some strategic steps you can take to finding that perfect team leader.
In this episode, we discuss helpful ways to go about reading and studying the Bible. We also touch on how this can help you to have a discussion over the Bible with someone else as well.
In this episode, we talk about serving as a group. For us, as a church, we want to take every opportunity to serve and that starts with our small groups and ministry teams. In this episode, we tell you why this is so important to us and how you can go about planning this for your group.
In this episode, we talk about the internal struggles every leader faces when they feel inadequate to the job at hand.
In this episode, we lay out three important steps when it comes to training up future leaders.
In this episode, we discuss a very important concept. How to count numbers the right way. There are plenty of wrong ways to count numbers, but in this podcast, we want to stress a model of counting numbers we see in Jesus.
In this episode, we discuss the important responsibility that every leader has to know where their people are at spiritually and have a plan for how they will grow their people.
In this episode, we lay out how you can go about leading a group discussion based on the Sunday sermon.
In this episode, we discuss how you can transform your team or group into a family dynamic.
In this episode, we discuss some tricks that any leader can implement to get people more comfortable to open up and talk in a group setting.
In this episode, we lay out some essential preparation steps that can go a long way to having a great group meeting.
In this podcast, we discuss 3 things that can help start your first meeting off on the best note.
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Creating a welcoming environment
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Establishing a Group Covenant
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Sharing your Jesus story