I write across three sites covering MSP leadership, rural ministry, and small-church life. The latest published pieces from each site appear below.
RewiredMSP.com
Practical writing for managed service providers about building dependable systems, leading well, and growing a resilient IT business.
- Business email compromise is fraud carried out through email, where an attacker impersonates someone you trust or takes over a real mailbox to trick your team into sending money or sensitive data. Your MSP should already be stopping most of it with strong sign-in protection, email filtering, alerting on suspicious… The post Business Email Compromise: […]
- To become a vCIO, you build three things: technical depth across the stack, fluency in how businesses make money, and the habit of guiding decisions instead of executing tasks. Most people arrive from the help desk, systems engineering, or account management. The job title matters less than the skills, and… The post How to Become […]
- An MSP service catalog is a written list of exactly what you deliver, at what level, and what it costs. It turns a vague promise of “IT support” into defined offerings that your team can deliver consistently and your clients can understand. Without one, every client gets a slightly different… The post How to Build […]
MinistryPlace.net
Free and affordable ministry resources for small and rural churches—especially for bi-vocational pastors and volunteer leaders.
- Rural teenagers face unique challenges: geographic isolation, limited opportunities, economic decline, and the loneliness epidemic. Here is how small-town churches can reach and retain teenagers in communities that are losing population. The post Rural Youth Ministry: Building Relationships in Small Towns appeared first on MinistryPlace.
- Discipleship in a small church looks different from discipleship in a large church. Here is a practical framework for investing in teenagers when you have 3-15 students, one volunteer leader, and no budget. The post How to Disciple Teenagers in a Small Church: A Practical Guide appeared first on MinistryPlace.
- A practical Christian parent guide to college, work, and other launches: make a money and safety plan, discuss faith honestly, and keep the relationship open. The post Launching Your Young Adult: Preparing Your Teenager for College and Career appeared first on MinistryPlace.
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RuralThinkTank.com
Rural ministry, small-church leadership, and conversations for people serving towns and communities where rural life really is different.
- Every rural church eventually faces the same situation: someone in the community is in crisis and needs help. A utility shutoff. An eviction notice. A medical bill that arrived the same week the car broke down. The church wants to help. But without a clear policy and a designated fund, the response is improvised, inconsistent,…
- Most rural pastors never take a sabbatical. Many do not know they are allowed to. Some feel guilty for wanting one. Some have asked and been told no. Some have never asked because they assumed the answer would be no. The result is a generation of rural pastors who are running on empty, serving congregations…
- First-time visitors to a small church decide within the first seven minutes whether they will return. Not after the sermon. Not after the coffee hour. In the first seven minutes, before they have sat down. What they are deciding in those seven minutes is not whether the theology is sound or the music is good.…