The Blueprint
March 2008
Six years ago Ryan, Phil, and I were part of the launch team for a local Church. From a group of about 30 initial members, the church has grown to over 400 regular attendees, two services, dozens of community groups and hundreds of volunteers. During this time the three of us have been involved in both serving and leading various servant teams within the church. After 6 years of leading hundreds of volunteers we have developed organizational tools and strategies that are rooted in team theory but tailored to the modern church servant team. Mosaic is our companies effort to provide other churches with proven organizational and communication tools.
So in the past few months I’ve been following Aaron Ivey’s blog after coming across it through a mutual friend. I don’t know Aaron personally, but I have enjoyed reading his posts, especially those that showcase his photography (those are just a small sample). I really dig the coloring and post effects that he adds to his shots and I’ve had a few friends inquire as to how he might be achieving that look. I thought I’d play in Photoshop a bit and see if I could come up with something similar. The idea is not to copy directly, but to come up with something that’s of a similar style.
I’ve always believed in the policy that if you take care of your employees, they will be happier and more productive. And so much so, that the company will grow beyond the growth rate if you had taken that same time and money and put it into the company itself. I’ll never forget working for a boss and asking for a specific software and laptop and the response I got was, “If we really need it and it will help… buy two.” I was completely floored and what resulted was me working very hard to complete the project.