What’s your question about communications?

As 2024 comes to a close, I want to take a moment to say thank you!

If you or someone you know is thinking about making the jump to freelance in 2025, I’d love your help spreading the word about The Jump Moment Podcast (Apple Podcasts, Spotify), launching January 21.

As we head into 2025, I’d love to hear from you: what’s the biggest challenge you’re facing right now? Send me a message and let me know.

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Lunchtime Heroes exists to help you build a healthy creative ministry. Here's how:

Grow with Group Creative Mentorship on Skool

Learn how to bridge the gap between creatives and leadership with the book, Watch Your Language!

Find out how your team is doing with the Creative Ministry Health Assessment.
Build a communications ministry that is on mission with the Healthy Communications Ministry Blueprint.

Pursue health in a small group with the Healthy Creative Ministry Cohort.

Get in-the-trenches help for critical seasons with Interim Communications Leadership.

What’s your question about communications?

As a church creative, I’ve been through my share of Christmas chaos: long hours, last-minute changes, and the overwhelming pressure to get everything done perfectly. But what I’ve learned through seasons like this is that not all rest is created equal.

In this episode, I share what I’ve learned about the seven areas of rest and how they’ve helped me stay healthy and effective in ministry. This isn’t about a one-size-fits-all solution. It’s about recognizing the areas where you need rest the most. Whether it’s stepping back from sensory overload or finding ways to restore your creative well, understanding how to rest intelligently is one way you can maintain health through Christmas.

This conversation is part of what I teach in the Healthy Creative Ministry Cohort, designed to help church creatives like you find ways to love what you do and last in ministry. If you’re feeling overwhelmed this Christmas, this episode is for you.

7 types of rest—physical, creative, spiritual, emotional, sensory, social, and mental.

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Lunchtime Heroes exists to help you build a healthy creative ministry. Here's how:

Grow with Group Creative Mentorship on Skool

Learn how to bridge the gap between creatives and leadership with the book, Watch Your Language!

Find out how your team is doing with the Creative Ministry Health Assessment.
Build a communications ministry that is on mission with the Healthy Communications Ministry Blueprint.

Pursue health in a small group with the Healthy Creative Ministry Cohort.

Get in-the-trenches help for critical seasons with Interim Communications Leadership.

What’s your question about communications?

No System is good enough mechanically to overcome incompatibility with culture.

This week on the podcast we jump into the traits your systems need in order to be healthy. The four traits of healthy systems are:

• Transparent
• Proactive
• Human
• Culturally compatible

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Lunchtime Heroes exists to help you build a healthy creative ministry. Here's how:

Grow with Group Creative Mentorship on Skool

Learn how to bridge the gap between creatives and leadership with the book, Watch Your Language!

Find out how your team is doing with the Creative Ministry Health Assessment.
Build a communications ministry that is on mission with the Healthy Communications Ministry Blueprint.

Pursue health in a small group with the Healthy Creative Ministry Cohort.

Get in-the-trenches help for critical seasons with Interim Communications Leadership.

What’s your question about communications?

Systems are a critical piece of success in church communications. If you have too many, you'll make life difficult for the ministry leaders you work with. If you have too few, your life will be chaos.

This week on the podcast, we'll talk through the four areas your systems need to manage. These four systems provide the structure you need for success:
- Intake
- Clarity
- Delegation
- Output

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Lunchtime Heroes exists to help you build a healthy creative ministry. Here's how:

Grow with Group Creative Mentorship on Skool

Learn how to bridge the gap between creatives and leadership with the book, Watch Your Language!

Find out how your team is doing with the Creative Ministry Health Assessment.
Build a communications ministry that is on mission with the Healthy Communications Ministry Blueprint.

Pursue health in a small group with the Healthy Creative Ministry Cohort.

Get in-the-trenches help for critical seasons with Interim Communications Leadership.

What’s your question about communications?

Systems are the mechanics of getting things done in your organization. There are two indicators that your systems need work–you are consistently missing deadlines in your work or you have become the bottleneck in your organization.

In order to evaluate your systems effectively, you need to start by asking how you are contributing to the problems you are experiencing. Once you have clarity there, you can begin making smart adjustments to your Systems.

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Lunchtime Heroes exists to help you build a healthy creative ministry. Here's how:

Grow with Group Creative Mentorship on Skool

Learn how to bridge the gap between creatives and leadership with the book, Watch Your Language!

Find out how your team is doing with the Creative Ministry Health Assessment.
Build a communications ministry that is on mission with the Healthy Communications Ministry Blueprint.

Pursue health in a small group with the Healthy Creative Ministry Cohort.

Get in-the-trenches help for critical seasons with Interim Communications Leadership.

What’s your question about communications?

This week on the podcast we dig into the difference between imagination and innovation. Often confused, but very much not the same. If we get the balance wrong, we'll actually make our message much harder to hear.

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Lunchtime Heroes exists to help you build a healthy creative ministry. Here's how:

Grow with Group Creative Mentorship on Skool

Learn how to bridge the gap between creatives and leadership with the book, Watch Your Language!

Find out how your team is doing with the Creative Ministry Health Assessment.
Build a communications ministry that is on mission with the Healthy Communications Ministry Blueprint.

Pursue health in a small group with the Healthy Creative Ministry Cohort.

Get in-the-trenches help for critical seasons with Interim Communications Leadership.

What’s your question about communications?

Imagination, simply put, is the quality of ideas coming out of your communications ministry.

Clarity is CRITICAL for your creative ministry to perform well. Some questions to ask (or answer if you are a ministry leader) that clarify the problem that needs to be solved:

• Why are we doing this?
• What are we trying to accomplish?
• What are our goals?
• Is this the best way to accomplish it?
• Who will be impacted by this?

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Lunchtime Heroes exists to help you build a healthy creative ministry. Here's how:

Grow with Group Creative Mentorship on Skool

Learn how to bridge the gap between creatives and leadership with the book, Watch Your Language!

Find out how your team is doing with the Creative Ministry Health Assessment.
Build a communications ministry that is on mission with the Healthy Communications Ministry Blueprint.

Pursue health in a small group with the Healthy Creative Ministry Cohort.

Get in-the-trenches help for critical seasons with Interim Communications Leadership.

What’s your question about communications?

My trade convinced me that tactics were the mission. But tactics have never been the mission. And they never will be. The mission of the church should always inform our tactics.

Shifting the from leading with trade will transform how effective you are in your ministry.

Go from: "[trade] will help [mission]", to "I think I know a way we can accomplish [mission]. [trade] can help."

Don't do this alone! Grow in the new Group Creative Mentorship community on Skool.

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Lunchtime Heroes exists to help you build a healthy creative ministry. Here's how:

Grow with Group Creative Mentorship on Skool

Learn how to bridge the gap between creatives and leadership with the book, Watch Your Language!

Find out how your team is doing with the Creative Ministry Health Assessment.
Build a communications ministry that is on mission with the Healthy Communications Ministry Blueprint.

Pursue health in a small group with the Healthy Creative Ministry Cohort.

Get in-the-trenches help for critical seasons with Interim Communications Leadership.