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.

communications strategy

Why not offending your guests (a little bit) is killing your church

Rich BirchDecember 12, 2012

Have you ever been somewhere different for the first time? In the past I've encouraged pastors to go play Bingo for an evening to give them a sense of what First Time Guests feel when they come to their church. At Bingo there is a series of social norms, funny...

personal productivity

Email Productivity Tip for Pastors [video]

Rich BirchDecember 10, 2012

Looking for more? Read McKinsey Study: Watch Merlin Mann's classic on Email Management: ...

communications

The Biggest Tip for Working with the Media as a Church Leader

Rich BirchDecember 6, 2012

One of the areas that we set out to improve at Liquid in 2012 was the way we worked with the press. We've been trying to get the media's attention about what we're doing as a church. We think that there is all kinds of "good news" happening around here...

personal productivity strategy

Not failure just feedback

Rich BirchDecember 3, 2012

Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference. - Hugh Prather Does your ministry regularly seek out feedback from the people it's serving? How are you looking for ways to learn from your...

communications

Best Practices in Leveraging Social Media for Your Next Church Event

Rich BirchNovember 28, 2012

As our people use social media all the time it's becoming a growing expectation that as a church we leverage these tools to help them experience what we do. How can you use these tools within your ministry? I sat down with Ali Raney who is the Social Media Coordinator...