Tag: strategy
Insights from 8 Church Mergers with Dan Zimbardi
by unSeminary: Welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast. Today I’m excited to talk with returning guest, Dan Zimbardi, Executive Pastor at Sandals Church in California. Sandals started 22 years ago in the living room of lead pastor, Matt Brown, and today has 11 locations throughout the middle and southern parts […]
Powerful Currents to Saturate Your City for Christ with Tim Lucas
by unSeminary: Welcome to the unSeminary podcast. This week we are joined by Tim Lucas, lead pastor of Liquid Church in New Jersey. Liquid Church’s name is a reference to how Jesus called Himself the living water; the founders of Liquid use the name as a way to remind people […]
4 Lessons New Communicators Need To Learn Before Taking a Major Stage
By Dillon Smith. Dillon is content manager for Carey Nieuwhof Communications and is a member of the Speaking Team. You can book Dillon to speak at your next event here. By Dillon Smith Raising up new communicators can feel like navigating a minefield. There is a tension that anyone trying to […]
Inside a Scalable Solution to Increasing Quality Relationships in Your Church with Judy West
Thanks for listening to this week’s unSeminary podcast. This week we have Judy West chatting with us. She is the Pastor of Leadership Development at The Crossing in St. Louis. The Crossing has four locations in St. Louis and can also be experienced online. Judy is with us today to […]
5 Signs You’re No Longer Inspiring Your Team
by Carey Nieuwhof: Leadership is hard. I totally get that, because I’ve been in it for over two decades. But to be perfectly honest, leadership never gets easy. The reason it’s never easy is because what’s hard keeps changing. You solve one problem, and now a new, likely larger on […]
CNLP 280: Ron Edmondson on The Essentials For Helping a Stagnant Church Grow Again, How to Handle Your Critics, and the Changing Landscape of Leadership
by Carey Nieuwhof: It’s easy to write off a stuck or plateaued church as irrelevant or bound to close, but that’s not what happened when Ron Edmondson became senior pastor of a church of 1000 in Lexington Kentucky. Under Ron’s leadership, Immanuel Baptist grew from 1000 attenders to over 3000 […]
Inside a Church Growing from Less than 100 to Almost 2,000 in 5 Years with Mark Zweifel
by unSeminary: Welcome to this week’s episode of the unSeminary podcast. Today Pastor Mark Zweifel of True North Church in Fairbanks, Alaska is joining us. True North is an 80 year old church and when Mark first came to the church, he was the fourth pastor in four years and […]
5 Lessons from Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge for Your Church
by unSeminary: This summer, both Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California and Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida are launching massive new “lands” based on the Star Wars franchise. Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge is the largest investment the Disney corporation has made in its North American parks in long time. Not […]
Foundations
On Demand Virtual Church Planting Training This on demand church planting training will introduce leaders to foundational strategies, practices, and principles of church planting. Through 15 fast-paced learning sessions, Foundations equips future church planters with helpful knowledge, tools and resources they’ll use on their church planting journey. We’ll go beyond […]
Significance, Satisfaction, & Leading Yourself to the Next Level with Shawn Lovejoy
by unSeminary: Welcome back to this week’s unSeminary podcast. I’m excited to have Shawn Lovejoy with us, the founder and CEO of Courage to Lead. Shawn has been a pastor, a church planter, an entrepreneur, and a leadership coach. He started coaching pastors in 2001. Courage to Lead is there […]