PLACE Ministries Blog » PLACE Ministries http://www.placeministries.org/blog Finding Your Place in Life and Ministry Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:31:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Watch Out – It’s the Extreme PLACE Makeover! http://www.placeministries.org/blog/2010/07/extreme-place-makeover/ http://www.placeministries.org/blog/2010/07/extreme-place-makeover/#comments Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:22:03 +0000 Kraig Kelsey http://www.placeministries.org/blog/?p=222 Summer is here and PLACE Ministries is kicking it off with an extreme makeover! I am proud to announce that PLACE Ministries has a new website, along with a new updated product and resource line for churches to use to connect God’s people to meaningful ministry.

But the makeover does not end there. PLACE also entered the social network arena by allowing churches to follow Jay McSwain, our founder, on Twitter. PLACE Ministries’ Twitter account provides you with unique and helpful insights into the PLACE process so that you can more easily discover your PLACE in life and ministry. Follow us at @Jay_McSwain and @PLACEMinistries.

Our products and resources have been updated graphically to reflect today’s culture. The message has remained the same and the PLACE process continues to change the lives of people and engage them into ministry!

Other changes that we’ve made:

  • Easier workshop registration & ordering process
  • NEW online training & resources
  • FREE resources
  • NEW video blog: Serving Counts
  • Updated PLACE workshops
  • Refreshed products & resources
  • Enhanced product features & reviews

Making an Impact in Ministry & Life

More and more PLACE testimonies have indicated that PLACE is helping people, not only find their place in ministry – but also in life! It’s so exciting to here people share about how the self-discovery assessments and the principles of PLACE have helped improve a relationship, marriage or a job-related situation. People are definitely finding their lives and they give themselves away (Matthew 16:25)!

Taking It All In

Enjoy the new website features, including an entire new shopping experience in the new PLACE store. Reviewing one of our products or simply let us know how PLACE is working in your church! We want to hear from you.

So how has PLACE changed your life? Let us know.

]]> http://www.placeministries.org/blog/2010/07/extreme-place-makeover/feed/ 0 Receiving Member Feedback to Improve Assimilation http://www.placeministries.org/blog/2010/06/receiving-member-feedback-to-improve-assimilation/ http://www.placeministries.org/blog/2010/06/receiving-member-feedback-to-improve-assimilation/#comments Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:17:41 +0000 Lisa Baker http://dev.placeministries.org/blog/?p=220 In additions to church-wide surveys, PLACE Connection Sessions are an ideal environment to ask for church feedback. At Brentwood Baptist Church, PLACE is a requirement for membership. During the session, designed to assist individuals in better understanding who God created the to be and where they would be effective serving, we ask, “What drew you to BBC”? It’s exciting to hear all of the positive responses and then to be able to encourage our staff and lay leadership.

As a follow up to the positive, we ask, “Do you see any gaps”? The New Members (NM) coming in are generally apologetic when they make any negative remarks; after all they are excited about their new church home. At the same time that they are apologetic, they seem to grasp that we are giving them a chance to participate in making decisions that will better the church, so they let us know what is lacking. The perceived gaps may reveal an area of service for the NM, an opportunity to teach the NM the why behind what we do or a ministry area that needs attention.

If we, as church leadership, can remain teachable enough to learn from others and if we are steeped in a God-relationship so that we remain faithful to the path He has us on, we will do nothing but benefit. We will receive the privilege of seeing through fresh eyes to new perspectives that can shed invaluable light on how we are doing ministry and where we might consider looking in the future.

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