Cleveland, TN–Art Rhodes, president and CEO of the Church of God Benefits Board, was named recipient of the 2018 Robert J. Varnell Leadership Award from the Cleveland/Bradley County Chamber of Commerce. The award is one of the three top annual awards and was presented at the 92nd annual meeting of the local Chamber on Tuesday, January 23.
There’s nothing more disheartening to a preacher than to see empty seats in a church. I’ll be honest—I like meetings where you have to pull out extra chairs and put people in the aisles. Why? Because I assume if God’s blessing is on a meeting it will be packed. I like numbers because, in my carnal thinking, crowds are more significant.
Another Christian business owner changes her seat in ministry to gain a new perspective. But, it’s not because of location, worship, people or the ministerial call. Christian leaders usually follow the same blueprint for an organization or church startup. This method today leaves many smaller organizations and churches with unnecessary struggles. A determined Jacqueline T. Hill shifted her career to launch a new strategy that offers help to Christian leaders who want to scale-up in their plans and visions in less than 15-days. She knows effective leaders have extraordinary desires from God, but how to get these ideas in motion is where they lack some knowledge.
