Dear Friends Giving Permision Recently on a rainy morning a friend and I approached one of our local coffee shops at 8.30am. It was raining hard. We were told in no uncertain terms that the place was shut and would open at 9am. Innocently, we asked whether we could sit at one of the outside […]
Interview series from 2019 with church leader, Tracee McAtear. What’s the secret to managing the juggle of leadership with life, marriage and family? Practical things like looking after your health are really important. We are mindful of what we eat, of including some form of physical activity in our day and getting good, regular rest. […]
Interview series from 2019 with church leader, Tracee McAtear. So you’ve been here 10 years. As you look back over that timeline, have there been some defining life turns along the way, either good or bad, that have shaped your leadership now? In some ways our philosophy of ministry hasn’t changed. We were hugely influenced […]
Dear Friends The arena in which public intellectuals converse is revealing an infectious idea that will be concerning for many church leaders. Indeed, speaking with some church leaders makes it clear that this idea has started to cross their minds to some extent. The idea is simply this: The Church, which used to be a […]
Interview series from 2019 with church leader, Tracee McAtear. What happened next? The headline in the newspaper said ‘Now is not the time to resign from your job!’ For us it was too late, plus we had an incredible sense of peace and adventure that God was leading us in an Abrahamic kind of way […]
Dear Friends Change – The Thing We Mostly Get Wrong The world is stacked with organisations, nations and churches that know they need to change but rarely achieve the kind of changes they envisage. Indeed, most of the changes that happen are more often the outcome of unmanageable and external factors (E.g. a pandemic!) than the […]
Dear Friends Looking Beyond the Horizon Acts 2:42–end. Some years ago, I was invited to speak at a church in Stockholm. I have no idea how I came to be invited. One Friday afternoon in early Spring I arrived at Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport. It suddenly occurred to me that I had no idea what the […]
Dear Friends Dodge the bullets, not the issues! An article I read in the paper this past week caught my attention. It was reflecting on the Government’s handling of the Covid 19 pandemic, and in particular what the general population (whoever they are?) thought of the Government’s performance. I am aware that our readers will take differing […]
Difficult conversations are a part of every day life, in our businesses, churches, homes and every other organisation imaginable. Whether you struggle to say no to a child, let an employee ‘go’, ask a church member to stop gossiping or . . . Sheila will help us face these conversations and alleviate the tensions they […]
Coming very soon! We are so excited that we have a second GLSnext event on Tuesday 30 April at 7 pm. This is hot of the press, so you won’t want to miss it! Insights to Lighten Your Load, featuring Juliet Funt, Patrick Lencioni, Henry Cloud and Craig Groeschel During this event, our […]
