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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. -
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What’s your question about communications?
No System is good enough mechanically to overcome incompatibility with culture.
TransparentProactiveHumanCulturally compatible
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:- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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. -
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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
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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.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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.
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. -
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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."
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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 we dive into the Four Creative Cores by unpacking Heart.
Heart looks at what’s going on inside the creative. It encompasses things like walk with God, interpersonal relationships, attitude, reputation (of the creatives and creative team), behavior, and your alignment with the mission of your church.
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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. -
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Success as a creative in ministry comes from building trust, not from having the most skill. This truth feels uncomfortable for creatives that value their trade, but building trust doesn't mean you can't be good at your trade. It just means that your skills won't have a way to impact the ministry you serve if you haven't built trust, too.
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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?
Healthy conversations are the foundation of any meaningful relationship. But if you've been employed for more than a few days, there's a good chance you've had some conversations that didn't go well. For the conversation between creatives and non creatives serving in ministry, the communications gap can be particularly big.
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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 take a high level look at the Four Creative Cores and learn about how they can change the way creatives and non-creatives communicate in your ministry.
Heart
Heart looks at what’s going on inside the creative. This core focuses on things like walk with God, interpersonal relationships, attitude, reputation, behavior, and alignment with the mission of your church.
Imagination
Imagination looks at the quality of ideas being created. This core focuses on things like idea generation, maintaining creative health, protecting rest, and training your eyes to find wonder.
Systems
Systems looks at the mechanics of getting work done. This core focuses on the culture-compatibility of systems, prioritizing human-centric processes, creating high-visibility systems, and consistently delivering results.
Skills
Skills looks at the ability of the creative to execute. This core focuses on self-driven development, developing other creatives, developing non-creatives, the long term benefit of craftsmanship, and the importance of growing in creative community.
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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 Matt talks about the importance of focusing on what you can control in your ministry. When you do this, you can make a simple shift in language to help your creative ideas become more understood by leadership.
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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 look at the Church Communications Gap. Those of us serving in creative ministry are presented with a tension between our trade and the mission of our church. The more we fight for trade over ministry, the wider the gap becomes between creatives and ministry leaders. But how are we supposed to help our ministries be more effective if we aren't implementing best practices?
A simple shift of language can make all the difference.
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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?
Jargon can be good or bad depending on how you use it. If you are trying to lead change, you it's important to recognize that most ministry leaders you work alongside won't understand any of your industry's jargon.
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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?
The Four Creative cores is language that helps navigate the tension between creatives and non-creatives serving together in the context of ministry. It's a hyper specific framework that was developed to empower churches to leverage creative ministry well and help creatives partner well with the mission of the church.
As we launch into a deep dive of the Four Creative Cores this season, I wanted to set some context as to where this framework was developed. Throughout my career in creative ministry, I've felt the tension between creatives and non-creatives, but I didn't always know how to address it.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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?
There are three great opportunities to build a healthy creative ministry coming in the next few months.
Cohort launches August 27Sign up here: https://www.lunchtimeheroes.co/cohort
Church Communications Conference
September 19-20, 2024
Compass Church (Dallas, TX)
Sign up here: https://churchcommunications.com/church-communications-conference-2024/I'll be sharing three sessions:
KEYNOTE | FOUR WORDS THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR COMMUNICATIONS MINISTRYThe key to solving a communications gap is developing common language. In this presentation, I will clarify what the gap is in most ministries between creative and non-creative leaders, share language I’ve developed to bridge that gap (The Four Creative Cores), unpack each core for understanding, reveal simple ways for the audience to take their next step of growth, and point them to opportunities to implement The Four Creative Cores in their ministry context. Once you understand the gap, you’ll be able to handle every communications conversation with confidence.
EXECUTIVE GROUP | UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGING CREATIVES
This conversation will be structured similar to a Q&A session and driven around the following talking points:
Where should comm sit in your organization? (Ministry vs. Service)How comm can best be leveraged to drive your mission forwardHow the Four Creative Cores can help leaders understand creativesHow the Four Creative Cores helps with performance managementWays to set comm up for success when they are asked to drive executive level projectsCREATIVE TEAM LEADERS BREAKOUT | BUILDING A CONFIDENT (AND HEALTHY) CREATIVE TEAM
As a creative team leader, your goal is to grow your team into balanced, confident creatives. Using The Four Creative Cores as our framework, I’ll walk through ways you can identify growth opportunities for your team, the benefits of a development plan for each member of your team, and how to hold your team accountable without shaking their confidence
New book launching September 19!
Four Creative coresCovers the role language plays in a healthy communications ministryDigs into the Four Creative Cores (Heart, Imagination, Systems, and Skills)Looks at how you you can apply them in you ministry contextLooks at application for the practicing creative, the creative team leader, and the non creative that work with creatives.It includes impl
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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?
In this episode of the Healthy Creative Ministry Podcast, Matt Curtis discusses how to prioritize unity over fear amid the polarizing context of the upcoming election (or a frustrating day at the office). He offers three critical questions to challenge fear-inducing lies and emphasizes the importance of adhering to God's word.
This episode underscores that political outcomes or personal ideas in ministry should not compromise Christian unity and love for one another. As the 2024 election approaches, let's not forget God call to love God and love others.
Preserving unity is an intentional decision on our part amidst a season where divisiveness is the opportunity. And the only way that I know how to pursue unity effectively is to actually remember the truth of God's word.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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. -
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As AI continues to become more and more integrated into the tools we use daily to communicate, we need to be intentional about preserving our humanity. Throughout Scripture, we see God work through human relationships. If we offload too much of our ministry to automation or artificial intelligence in the name of efficiency, our ministry will suffer.
Don’t lose humanity. Three ways you can do that:
1. Effective communication should point people to human relationship as quickly as possible
don’t use communication tools as a way to avoid human interaction2. Most people aren’t all digital
3. Digital is easy but shallow
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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. -
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If you don't have effective strategies in your communications ministry, there is a very high probability that you will always live a life of crisis management.
You’ll jump from one crisis to the next until you burnout. I’ve lived it myself, and I’ve seen it happen with multiple communication leaders over the years.
I don’t want that for you.
Building and implementing effective strategies will lay the groundwork for a healthy and long-lasting communications ministry in your church.
Want more than a how to? I'm now offering done for you strategy. Get all the details at https://www.lunchtimeheroes.co/strategyFive traits of effective strategies:
An effective strategy sets clear expectationsAn effective strategy is humanEffective strategies are flexibleEffective strategies should make on-mission decisions easierAn effective strategy accomplishes it’s goal- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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. - Visa fler
