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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Lessons Learned from Easter Eve Shooting at Rented Church Facility

Rich BirchApril 10, 2013

What would you do if there was a shooting at the theater that you rent for your church on a Saturday evening? What if it was the night before Easter? Today we have a guest post from Tim Day, the senior pastor of The Meeting House in Toronto. The Meeting...

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7 Elements of Effective Church Announcements

Rich BirchApril 9, 2013

Rather than seeing "announcements" as a distraction from the reason we gather together as a church I think they can be critically important in the life of a community. These times can be a window in the heart of a church for first time guests as they get a sense...

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Lessons from NewSpring Church’s Explosive Growth on Easter 2013

Rich BirchApril 4, 2013

Today it's my honor to have Shane Duffey guest posting here at unSeminary. Shane is a part of the directional leadership team at NewSpring Church in South Carolina. This is one of the most innovative churches in the country and a big part of that innovation comes from Shane and his leadership....

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7 Reasons Your Church Should Stop Buying Apple Computers and Move to Chromebooks

Rich BirchApril 3, 2013

We're moving away from Apple laptops for our staff team at our church and moving towards Chromebooks. I know this post might only apply to churches with larger staff teams but I wanted to share some of my learnings as we make this transition, Chromebooks are essentially a web browser wrapped in...

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6 Realities of Effective Preaching

Rich BirchApril 1, 2013

In January, I had the privilege of spending the day with the team from The Rocket Company. They exist to provide practical how-to training for pastors and church leaders. This spring they are out doing themselves (again!) with a free online Preaching Conference on May 1st from 12pm-4pm (EDT). They've pulled in...

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10 Done-for-you Resources for Pastors to Promote Easter Sunday on Social Media

Rich BirchMarch 28, 2013

Easter is almost here! Today we have some done-for-you content that you can plug into your social networks to help you promote your services. 70% of your people use social media regularly ... how can you leverage that channel in these last few hours before Easter Sunday? Facebook Statuses // Some...

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5 Tools for Pastors to Stay Connected to Culture

Rich BirchMarch 25, 2013

Recently I was at a middle school and saw these bookmarks proudly displayed at the check out. They were no doubt put there to encourage the young people to read more. They are a leveraging the look of the "popular" band AC/DC to help make reading look appealing. The problem...

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6 Reasons Your Church Should Be Involved in Solving the Clean Water Crisis

Rich BirchMarch 22, 2013

Today is World Water Day ... this is a cause that has grown to mean a lot to me over the last few years. I'm so proud of Liquid Church because we've really embraced this issue as a church. Your church should be involved in the clean water crisis and...

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9 Truths About Supporting Teaching Pastors That I’ve Learned Over 10+ Years

Rich BirchMarch 20, 2013

I've had the amazing privilege of working closely with three different Teaching Pastors. (Bruxy Cavey at The Meeting House, Carey Nieuwhof at Connexus Community Church and currently I'm working with Tim Lucas at Liquid Church.) Navigating the teaching calendar ... coming up series branding ideas ... trying to figure out what...

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9 Status Updates to Drive Engagement on Your Church Facebook Wall

Rich BirchMarch 18, 2013

Imagine a friend that just constantly talking about themselves and never stopped to engage in a dialogue. Is your church acting like that on your Facebook wall because all you ever do is advertise the next upcoming event or service that's going on? How are you leveraging this social media...