Win a Game Changer!
No, it won’t be all fun and games, but OC12 will have some healthy competition! And there are all sorts of prizes up for grabs this year so listen up. Orange-opoly Last year, conference attendees had a lot of fun hunting for… Read More
Tweeting Easter
Going into the Easter season, the 252 Basic creative team and Orange Specialist have been praying hard for all of our churches and the families you represent. We prayed that through the lessons on Hope, Jesus would be glorified and kids would… Read More
He Has Risen!
1 The Sabbath day was now over. It was dawn on the first day of the week. Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. 2 There was a powerful earthquake. An angel of the Lord came down… Read More
Play "Orange Strategy in Five Minutes"
Okay, before you read any further, this blog does not contain a five-sentence summation of what the Orange Strategy is. Actually, it’s a challenge. For those of you that are already Orange thinkers and practitioners at your various places of worship, I… Read More
Christmas Presence
I recently took the StrengthFinders assessment and discovered my top character trait is—achievement. I must confess, it fits. I have a strange love of tests and filling out forms. A deadline is an invitation to tackle a project and wrestle it into… Read More
The Christmas Machine
This year, I saw my first “Christmas preview” sale back in September. Frankly, I’m just waiting for the “Christmas in July” events to bleed right on through the rest of the summer, meet up with those previews, and give us a full… Read More
Brothers and Sisters (Pump up the Volume!)
In the past few weeks, a member of the Orange team found herself and her entire family in a very difficult situation. She was traveling through Alabama to visit her sister when, at 27 weeks pregnant, she went into labor. Her son,… Read More
Working Within Our Strengths
Tom Rath wrote a great book called Strengths Finder 2.0 about developing your strengths instead of fixing your shortcomings. The accompanying online assessment, StrengthsFinder, allows you to determine your top five talents. At Orange, we use this assessment to help each staff… Read More
If I Knew Then What I Know Now
“If I knew then what I know now.” How many times have you heard somebody say this phrase? Be honest. How many times have you said this phrase? I say this phrase when I think about my first day of high school,… Read More