Church Planters, at least this one, are tasked with both. I pray for the day when I can focus much more on leading, but for now I try to juggle both hats. (That's a mixed metaphor)
I'm particularly thankful for a developing ministry team that are helping manage the load. One of my managers has over the last couple weeks really started to take initiative for managing his area. (Thanks to Drew in Quadrant 2 overseeing Mixers and Small Groups).
I think it was Jack Welch that said, "If it can't be measured, it can't be managed." Well I've been doing some measurements from our first semester and here are a couple things that have stood out.
- 1:3 Visitor Ratio. One visitor for every three SRCers.
- 30% retention to a second visit.
- 10% retention to a third visit.
- 80.7% of our weekend attendance attend small groups.
- 54% of our church give financially to God's work here. (Not sure what to do with that number. It is not an accurate portrayal. Giving records are only kept by one name in the family so the number is skewed. Additionally it doesn't count cash gifts that are given without a name. But it is as close as I can get at this point.)
- 10+% of our giving has gone out or is set aside to be given to missions projects around the world from Baltimore to Brussels.
Those are just some of the numbers from this semester.
--Ben
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I just wanted to comment on multiple hats...do you have another hat other than that dirty once blue girls hat?
And nice alliteration on the Baltimore to Brussels. Here's another with my favorite African country: Downtown to Djibouti.
Dude,
How you gonna bust on my hat. It's awesome and it was free.
Thanks for the alliteration note. We did send Ronnie to djibouti.
--Ben
free doesn't mean that you can take something away from your sister and it becomes yours. That means stolen
If anyone who feels that their hat was stolen would like it back, they're more than welcome to it in its current condition.
--Ben
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