Is Your Team Languishing? Practical Help for Executive Pastors.

Rich Birch

Rich Birch is one of the early multi-site church pioneers in North America. He led the charge in helping The Meeting House in Toronto to become the leading multi-site church in Canada with over 5,000+ people in 18 locations. In addition, he served on the leadership team of Connexus Church in Ontario, a North Point Community Church Strategic Partner. He has also been a part of the lead team at Liquid Church - a 5 location multisite church serving the Manhattan facing suburbs of New Jersey. Liquid is known for it’s innovative approach to outreach and community impact. Rich is passionate about helping churches reach more people, more quickly through excellent execution.His latest book Church Growth Flywheel: 5 Practical Systems to Drive Growth at Your Church is an Amazon bestseller and is design to help your church reach more people in your community.

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Is Your Team Languishing? Practical Help for Executive Pastors.

Rich BirchMay 18, 2021

It's clear that we're entering a post-pandemic stress period in the life of the local church. All around us we see signs that our teams are stressed and not sure what to do next. Anecdotally, we're hearing about huge turnover at churches, and we cannot ignore the rising anxiety in...

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Pete Briscoe’s Lessons from Coming Alongside Senior Leaders to Help with Communication & Self Care

Rich BirchMay 13, 2021

Welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast. Today we’re talking with Pete Briscoe, who served as the senior pastor for nearly three decades at Bent Tree Bible Fellowship in Carrollton, Texas, and now consults with and coaches pastors. He is with us today to talk about growing communication skills to improve...

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Multisite to Omnichannel: A Multiplication Strategy for Your Church Post-Pandemic

Rich BirchMay 11, 2021

We've all made the digital pivot. Remember those days in mid-March 2020 when every church became an online church? It's exciting to see that most churches across the country have kept their online ministries. As I talk with church leaders from congregations of varying sizes, we retell stories of how,...

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Pitfalls and Possibilities of VR Church with Jonathan Armstrong

Rich BirchMay 6, 2021

Thanks for tuning in to this week’s unSeminary podcast. We’re talking with Dr. Jonathan Armstrong today, an educator who has also helped run the virtual reality (VR) lab at Moody Bible Institute. Our perspective on what technology is and how it's affecting our world keeps changing. In fact as younger...

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Insights After Six Months Of Being Reopened

Rich BirchMay 4, 2021

Today’s article is by Ben Stapley. Ben serves on the Executive Team at Christ Fellowship as the Weekend Experience Director overseeing the production, worship, creative, communication, online and guest service departments. Ben shares how the past six months of being reopened gave Christ Fellowship seven insights into where their church...

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Practical Strategy for Developing High-Capacity Volunteers with Danny Franks

Rich BirchApril 29, 2021

Welcome to this week's unSeminary podcast! This week I'm chatting with a repeat guest, Danny Franks, Pastor of Guest Services at The Summit Church. The Summit Church has twelve locations around North Carolina and the heart of the church is set on sending. They continually want their people to be...

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Yes, Now Is the Perfect Time to Launch A New Campus for Your Church

Rich BirchApril 27, 2021

Campus expansion is the most effective way to both reach new people and release new leaders. For over two decades, the multisite church movement has helped churches expand their mission, extend their reach, and care for more people than they’d have been able to if they stayed in one location....

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Practical Help for Church Leaders in Emotional and Spiritual Growth with Bill & Kristi Gaultiere

Rich BirchApril 22, 2021

Welcome back to the unSeminary podcast. This week I’m excited to talk with Bill and Kristi Gaultiere from the organization Soul Shepherding. Bill and Kristi felt called to study psychology for the purpose of ministry, and serve as spiritual directors and pastors to pastors. Soul Shepherding offers resources and training...

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How to Beat the Spring Lull & Gain Momentum at Your Church

Rich BirchApril 21, 2021

The season between Easter and summer is a strange one in the life of a church. Many churches gain momentum coming up to Easter and then find the weeks that follow before summer arrives, drag on. In any other year, this lull in momentum can feel difficult to climb out...

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Turning Obstacles into Opportunities: Church Real Estate Lessons with Andy Wood

Rich BirchApril 15, 2021

Thanks for joining us for this week’s unSeminary podcast. Today we’re talking with Andy Wood, founding and lead pastor of Echo Church in California. Many times in ministry, the thing that should be an obstacle actually can become an opportunity if we think about it differently. Echo Church held strongly...

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