EP 204 – HOW NOT TO HAVE BORING BUSINESS MEETINGS

Welcome back bootcampers, we hope your summer is finishing up well. Today we approach an important but perhaps boring topic-the Church Business Meeting.  Yes, friends it's true many hate, yea even loathe the monthly or quarterly business meetings.  Here are some practical suggestions to enliven this important meeting of the gathered church. Encourage Testimonies that are tied to decision making and budgeting (camps, live change, baptism stories etc.) Spend time intentionally praying for the congregation, mission and the effort to proclaim the gospel in your neighborhood and around the world. Spend time highlighting "one" ministry a little longer, allowing them to unpack their work and mission. Celebrate a ministry leader or key volunteer. Conclude the meeting with a shared meal (a good one!) Here are some of the EPs referenced in the introduction. EP 8: How to handle a Bad Business meeting w/Evan Skelton EP 92: Robert's Rules of Order w/Craig Culbreth EP 146: Formal and Informal Permission   Bootcampers we want to recommend our fantastic sponsor for all your communication needs; branding, web, social media, they have you covered. Get with One Eighty Digital today and let them know you are a Bootcamp listener. JimBo Stewart: [00:00:00] Here we are, back at the bootcamp. Back at it again, Bob. I hope you're ready for the next episode, episode 204, as we keep this train rolling. Bob Bickford: Man, we are picking up Steam JimBo heading into the next, era of the bootcamp. And, I think we are having some fun. If we were a, if we were a transcontinental, Railroad train, JimBo, where would we be? Would we have, would we have navigated from east to west and would we be halfway back or would we be making our second trip at this point? JimBo Stewart: I don't know, man. I, you know, who knows how long we're gonna do this for? I could see we, we do it all the way till I'm double nickels. Bob Bickford: Me and I don't know, JimBo, I'd be pretty old by then. I might not be a sound mind. So, JimBo Stewart: You don't think you got 14 more years of this in you? Bob Bickford: I know I got a solid 10, that extra four that could be the difference maker. JimBo Stewart: You guys heard it here first. That might be the end of the podcast and we got a 10 year window. How much can we talk about revitalization and replanting in the next 10 [00:01:00]years? Bob Bickford: Well, I don't wanna sound any alarm bells, but you know, they're, they're, everybody's always talking about climate change and that we've only got seven years left or 12 years left, that sort of thing. So maybe you heard it here today. We've got 10 years at least we think, statistically maybe the scientists have studied that the bootcamp has got about 10 years of life left. I don't know. I JimBo Stewart: Yeah. Bob Bickford: I haven't JimBo Stewart: the, when the, boot camps done, what else is there? Bob Bickford: Well, it's time to turn the lights off. JimBo Stewart: Well, one of the things I do love about this podcast and our time together, Bob, is it's never boring. and, It, it's a refreshing joy because sometimes the word rev revitalization has some pretty boring and depressing moments and seasons. And so we try to be lighthearted on this podcast to talk about, a heavy and important topics and, because we know if you're revitalizing a replanting, a