Help to bridge the gap
Whether you are trying to stay afloat amidst a staff transition or are searching to find the right first communications hire, ministry doesn’t stop just because your team isn't at full strength.
Interim Comm Leadership is a bridge of support that allows your ministry continue to move forward while you to build the team you need.
How this helps leadership:
Gain a thought partner to help you develop strategic plans for the future of your church’s communications team.
Get experienced graphic design support to keep your ministry staff supported.
Finally know if your communications systems and strategies are where they need to be through our Healthy Comm Systems Audit. This includes:
Communication channel audit
Promotion strategy audit, revision, or build from scratch
Project management workflow
Develop new and existing communications team members with the help of a church communications veteran through regular 1:1s.
Evaluate existing communications budget by eliminating redundant or under leveraged services.
Get insights on progress through weekly reports with updates on deliverables, identified growth opportunities, and progress made toward improvement.
How this helps creative ministry staff:
This gives your creative staff a safe sounding board for struggles and concerns.
A mentor who has been down this road before and can encourage you though a season of uncertainty.
Execution support to keep your workload manageable.
Investment in your creative and ministry growth and development.
Where are you today?
Your quest for a healthy creative ministry starts with the free Creative Ministry Health Assessment. After this 24 question assessment, you'll have clear insights into the current state of your creative ministry.
The assessment evaluates your healthy in the Four Creative Cores: Skills, Systems, Heart, and Imagination. Knowing the answer to these questions will give you the clarity you need to take your best next step toward a healthier creative ministry.
At the end of the assessment, you’ll have the opportunity to schedule a free assessment call to discuss your results and next steps. The assessment call builds on your assessment results and uncovers any additional challenges in your specific ministry context.
What do you want to become?
More often than not, an unhealthy creative ministry is born from the divide between what leadership thinks should be happening and what those serving in creative ministry think should be happening.
The Missional Alignment phase works with church leadership to establish a clear direction for the creative team–one that moves forward the mission of the church and aligns with the direction leadership is going.
Having a clear desired state for your creative ministry is critical to ensuring what we build is healthy.
Who are you, really?
The Reality Check establishes a clear current state through a series of intake calls–one from every member on the team involved in creative ministry.
These conversations reveal what is happening in the trenches of the creative ministry in your church. Like the health assessment, this phase focuses on the Four Creative Cores to identify what is (and isn’t) working in the areas of Imagination, Skills, Heart, and Systems.
Beyond assessing the functional operations of your creative ministry, this phase also unearths the values of those making creative decisions for your church.
Where do we go from here?
Phase 4 is the presentation of the discovery work done up to this point. Results will be delivered to church leadership in a conversation (and document) called the Pathway to Health.
The Pathway to Health identifies the root issues causing tension in your creative ministry and presents a strategy to solve them.
The Pathway to Health includes recommendations for your creative ministry as a whole and development recommendations for each member of your creative ministry.
Let's build a healthy creative ministry!
The Four Creative Cores is the framework to achieve health in your creative ministry. Implementation is a partnership between Lunchtime Heroes and your creative ministry staff to make the adjustments recommended by the Pathway to Health.
The approach to Implementation is built specific to the needs of your church. Examples of how that has looked in the past include ongoing creative coaching, brainstorming, creation of communication policies and philosophies, absorbing design workload to provide margin, execution of complex projects or campaigns, and building systems and processes.
Founder of Lunchtime Heroes
Matt Curtis has been using creativity for ministry since 2002. After two years promoting missions and 16 years on church staff—in roles ranging from graphic designer to Creative Minister—Matt shifted from serving one church to equipping many.
In 2022, Matt launched Lunchtime Heroes to help churches effectively leverage creativity for ministry. Through branding, design, coaching, and consulting, Lunchtime Heroes has partnered with churches to build healthy and effective creative ministries across the country.
Outside of ministry work, Matt enjoys content creation, BBQ, roasting (and drinking) coffee, and gaming with friends.
Matt sees beyond the job to the individual. At a time when I was questioning my ability and calling in my life, Matt was able to walk me through my strengths and weaknesses to make me a better leader. I will always be indebted to Matt for seeing leadership potential in me before I saw it in myself.
Matt is a Church Comm and Creative guru. I really believe it. He is so efficient and effective in his outsource help to churches and very flexible and understanding of the pace of working with church leaders. On the side of creative teams and culture Matt has deep insights that have formed and shaped the process of intake, management, and execution for our creative team at High Desert Church. He is amazing at finding problems in a system and offering a myriad of solutions. If you need a creative team turned healthy or help as a stop gap for a season I couldn’t recommend Matt enough.
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