Author: mustardseedonline10

Kurt Jacobson is a trained interpretive consultant of Holy Cow! assessments serving churches across WI and beyond. An ordained pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, he served Trinity Lutheran Church, Eau Claire for 28 years. In 2016 he formed Mustard Seed Consulting. Jacobson holds a BA in Business/Hospital Administra on and Organiza onal Communication from Concordia College, Moorhead, MN and a Masters of Divinity degree from Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN. He holds a certificate in Intentional Interim Ministry from the National Association of Lutheran Interim Pastors. He is the author of “Welcoming Grace: Words of Love for All.” In addition, the book “The State of the ELCA” by Russell Crabtree, founder of Holy Cow! includes a chapter detailing the work Kurt did in making Trinity a transformational congregation. He lives near Cumberland, WI.

Ways We Help Churches

Mustard Seed provides church leaders trusted, reliable insight via an evidence based discernment process.

We offer customization to assist you in gaining evidence and building awareness needed for specific decisions facing your church:  1)transition of pastors, 2)strategic planning 3)building project campaigns 4)debt reduction 5)stewardship development 6)merging churches.

These are some of the options available to churches wanting to gain evidence to make better decisions, with greater effectiveness for the sake of the mission of Jesus Christ.

Intelligent Leadership

One of the things that we say about organizations is that focus trumps picture. That is simply another way of saying that when people reflect on how they feel about an organization, they don’t look at the entire picture of what an organization does. Instead, they focus on a few things that are important to them. The few things they focus on are more decisive than everything else in the picture in determining how they feel about that organization overall. (

-Holy Cow! Consulting blog)

With evidence based discernment leadership gains awareness of the big picture and the particularities that people are focused on. MSC can help your organization take the first steps.

 

A New Day for Churches

Today “expressing the hopes,fears and anxieties – a congregation needs opportunities for collecting data and other useful information and the space to ask: given what we are seeing in this information, what are we learning that is relevant to the decisions we have to make. Sometimes the the information gathered helps a congregation see more clearly any incongruence between it’s vision and understanding of God’s kingdom and it’s current ways of living as a community.” (A New Day in the City – Urban Church Renewal”. Mustard Seed Consulting can help your congregation with data collection using the best in assessment tools. Contact us today.

Welcome to Mustard Seed

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Mustard Seed Consulting is my latest venture to pursue my passion for serving God by providing for churches. I want to see congregations grow in health and vitality and by doing so bless people.

Mustard Seed Consulting offers avenues for churches leaders and clergy to gain insight and awareness via the best assessment tools available today.

We offer churches guidance for effective and meaningful change with trusted insight for leadership to discover relevant, data-driven evidence to address a wide-range of endeavors and challenges.

As a trained interpretive consultant for Holy Cow! Consultant tools, I offer churches tools so better decisions may be made in less time and with greater effectiveness.

Im happy to discuss with you options for your church – whether you need assistance through pastoral transition, planning, preparations for campaigns or building projects and so much more.