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How to get Specific about Honoring your Volunteers

August 2, 2017September 27, 2017 Tom Pounder 1 Comment encouragement, honor, hope, volunteers

One of the best ways to keep volunteers engaged and involved consistently is to honor them and what they do.

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4 Photos your Church should be Posting to increase Engagement

July 17, 2017September 30, 2017 Tom Pounder 2 Comments engagement, hope, photography, photos, social media

I love posting images on social media. It always gets more engagement than regular text and it just looks cleaner

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Ministering in a Post-Christian World

April 5, 2017April 3, 2017 Tom Pounder 0 Comments christian, hope, ministry, post-christian

In ministry I’ve always had the point of reaching people at where they are. You can’t help come to know

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How to Make Sure You are Taking Care of Yourself

March 20, 2017September 30, 2017 Tom Pounder 0 Comments health, hope, joy, life, process, sabbath

It’s been a great time in my life where I have been doing a lot of re-evaluating of where I

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How to respond to the negativity on Social Media

February 6, 2017September 30, 2017 Tom Pounder 0 Comments election, family ministry, hope, social media, student ministry

Before the general election in America things were getting really tense on social media. Whether you like him or not,

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Be a Communicator of Hope

December 7, 2016September 30, 2017 Tom Pounder 3 Comments communication, family ministry, hope, online, social media, student ministry

“We all live with the fear that things like this could happen to us,” Ohio State President Michael Drake said

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Guilters suck! Lead with Vision

November 21, 2016September 30, 2017 Tom Pounder 0 Comments family ministry, guilt, hope, Leadership, Strategy, student ministry, vision, volunteer leadership, volunteers

We know them well. They are those people in your life who say, “your excuse is lame” or “come-on man,

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Use Opportunities to listen, love and be kind

November 10, 2016September 30, 2017 Tom Pounder 0 Comments Christ, election, hope, listen, love, opportunity

Needless to say it has been a very interesting 18 months or so in America because of this election. I

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Ministry Insights from Gettysburg

May 25, 2016September 30, 2017 Tom Pounder 0 Comments battle of Gettysburg, gettysburg, hope, student ministry, technology, vision

Recently Tom and some of the New Life Staff went to Gettysburg for a Staff Retreat. From that time, today’s

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YM Devo: Taking Care of Yourself

September 7, 2012 Tom Pounder 0 Comments deco, devotional, families, God, health, hope, impossible, promises

I know this is a reoccurring theme in some of my posts, but I just led some fellow New Life

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