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Your attitude determines your altitude — Part 8 of Cam Taylor's 10 Keys to Thriving When Faced with Ministry Setbacks.

Your attitude determines your altitude when facing adversity and a setback. Have you ever flown on a small plane beside the pilot? Among all those instruments and dials and switches on the dashboard of an airplane is what’s called an attitude indicator. Cam tells us what the attitude indicator does, and how it illustrates something we need, in order to thrive after a setback. Your attitude determines your altitude when facing adversity and a setback. Here's one key element about keeping a resilient attitude  you don't want to miss.

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You can download Cam’s Lesson 8 Action Guide by clicking here.  

Cam Taylor provides some further thoughts about keeping a resilient attitude in this video:

And…There are several ways you can connect with Cam including...

Build Replenishing Connections — Part 7 of Cam Taylor's 10 Keys to Thriving When Faced with Ministry Setbacks.

When met by a setback, the role connections play is critical. Two factors set the tone for success. Cam answers this question: “Say we are hit with a setback or roadblock that unexpectedly happens in our ministry lives... what is the role that people play on that journey?”      

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You can download Cam’s Lesson Seven Action Guide by clicking here.  

Cam Taylor provides some further thoughts about building replenishing connections in this video:

And…There are several ways you can connect with Cam including how to find out about his new book "Detour: A Roadmap For When Life Gets Rerouted."

The best way to access his free material or purchase his book is on his website at www.camtaylor.net.

He has an email course on resiliency, an excerpt of...

Learn to wait — Part 6 of Cam Taylor's 10 Keys to Thriving When Faced with Ministry Setbacks.

Waiting isn't something we do naturally but is essential when met with roadblocks. We all want to get to our goals and destination fast and without problems. For this reason, people love their microwave ovens and high speed internet. Unfortunately, waiting is part of the deal when we unexpectedly meet with an unwelcome setback. Leadership Coach Cam Taylor is back with us today with his sixth tip on thriving when faced with ministry setbacks. Cam is author of the book "Detour: A Roadmap For When Life Gets Rerouted." Cam answers this question: "What advice do you give to a person faced with a season of waiting?”

Waiting isn't something we do naturally but is essential when met with roadblocks. Learn one essential for waiting well.

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You can download Cam’s Lesson Six Action Guide by clicking here.

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Part 5 of Cam Taylor's 10 Keys to Thriving When Faced with Ministry Setbacks.

Pain, looked at from the right perspective, may have more to teach us than first appears. Leadership Coach Cam Taylor is back with us today with his fifth talk on thriving when faced with ministry setbacks. Cam responds to this question: "There is a popular belief that pain is negative and an unwelcome guest in our lives. What do you say to the person who holds to that belief, yet is hit by unexpected suffering of some kind?" His topic in this QT4CM episode is:

Throw Off Faulty Beliefs About Pain.

C.S. Lewis said, "But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

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You can download Cam’s Lesson Five Action Guide by clicking here.

Cam Taylor provides some further thoughts about faulty beliefs about pain in...

Part 4 of Cam Taylor's 10 Keys to Thriving When Faced with Ministry Setbacks

We are continuing in our series with Leadership Coach Cam Taylor on successfully managing those detours in life and ministry. We asked Cam to comment on this statement we hear a lot from well-meaning ministry colleagues:  “Some people would say that during a ministry setback, all you need is a little faith to get you through and some God infused optimism!" His topic in this QT4CM episode is:

Embrace tempered optimism, not blind faith.

Optimism alone falls short during times of stress and adversity. Find out a better approach Cam suggests in this QT4CM episode.

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You can download Cam’s Lesson Four Action Guide by clicking here.

Cam Taylor provides some further thoughts about tempered optimism in this video:

And…There are several ways you can connect with Cam including how to find out about his new book "Detour:...

Part 3 of Cam Taylor's 10 Keys to Thriving When Faced with Ministry Setbacks

Leadership Coach Cam Taylor is back with us today with his third tip on thriving when faced with ministry setbacks. Ministry setbacks can disturb our sense of purpose. Cam speaks about the important role purpose has in learning to thrive during a setback. His topic in this QT4CM episode is:

Pursue a Purpose You Can Live For.

Quote by Viktor E. Frankl — “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”

What do you think this means and why do you think purpose is so powerful?

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You can download Cam’s Lesson Three Action Guide by clicking here.

Cam Taylor provides some further thoughts about purpose in this video: ]

And…There are several ways you can connect with Cam including how to find out about his new book "Detour: A Roadmap For When Life Gets Rerouted."

The...

Part Two of Cam Taylor's 10 Keys to Thriving When Faced with Ministry Setbacks

In our previous episode leadership coach Cam Taylor spoke to us about hope when we dance with adversity.  Ministry setbacks affect us in many ways -- one of those ways is in how we feel. In today's episode Cam gives us tips to help us deal with the emotional side to a setback.

There are four emotional puzzle pieces talked about in the lesson - emotional self-awareness, dancing with emotions, emotional self-mastery, and the value of deep crying. Cam explains why emotional self-awareness is a good place to begin when dealing with setbacks and roadblocks.

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You can download Cam’s Lesson Two Action Guide by clicking here.

Cam Taylor provides some further thoughts about emotion in this video:

And…There are several ways you can connect with Cam including how to find out about his new book "Detour: A Roadmap For...

Part One of 10 Keys to Thriving When Faced with Ministry Setbacks

Our Christian Ministry Maven for this episode is Cam Taylor, a leadership coach, speaker, and author who helps people in the church and marketplace live with purpose and resiliency.

Find True Hope Not Just Wishful Thinking

Cam joins us today from British Columbia to share some of the lessons he learned while on a long recovery journey after a serious motorcycle accident.  He has graciously agreed to talk to us about "Thriving When Faced with Ministry Setbacks", and this will be a first in a series of episodes where he will give us tips on living with purpose and resiliency in our ministries.   He has entitled this series: 10 Keys to Thriving When Faced with Ministry Setbacks.  

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Cam will be coming back on the QT4CM podcast next Tuesday and will be sharing more insights with us on living with purpose and resiliency in our ministries, from...

How to start your own Christian charity project and give official receipts to your donors

Thinking about starting a new Christian charity project, or missions idea?

Do you want to benefit from charitable donation tax receipts for your donors in Canada and the United States?

We are often asked how we have been able to offer official charity tax receipts for donations in support of Christian Ministry Academy and Quick Tips for Christian Ministry.

Several had already tried to set up their own charity… and sadly found out the government registration procedure was very costly and too much of a barrier.

But, we found an easy solution — the Great Commission Foundation!

We easily got rid of all those government registration hassles and outsourced our charity receipting, accounting, tax and legal oversight, financial reporting, and government compliance.

We saved tens of thousands of dollars and a great deal of administration hassle by outsourcing our financial management...