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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Focusing on Jesus in a Distracted World with Steve Brown

Rich BirchJune 3, 2021

Welcome to the unSeminary podcast. Today we’re talking with Dr. Steve Brown, President of Arrow Leadership and author of the book Jesus Centered: Focusing On Jesus In A Distracted World. Steve works to help leaders find clarity, community and confidence in their work as Jesus-centered leaders. He’s talking with us...

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Improving Your Working Partnership with an Executive Assistant with Jannet Morgan

Rich BirchMay 27, 2021

Welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast. Today we’re chatting with Jannet Morgan, the Executive Assistant (EA) to Lead Pastor, Tim Lucas, at Liquid Church in New Jersey. She’s with us today to talk about the role of the EA supporting leadership in the church and how to make the most...

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5 Things You Say That Annoy Your Executive Pastor

Rich BirchMay 25, 2021

Executive pastors live at the intersection of vision and execution. They spend their days trying to balance the immense call that God has put on the church and the limited resources your church has for making that vision a reality. This tension creates an incredible amount of stress for executive...

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Applying Pandemic Learnings from Church Online to Post-Pandemic Church with Jenn Clauser

Rich BirchMay 20, 2021

Thanks for joining in for this week’s unSeminary podcast. We’re talking with Jenn Clauser, the Director of Communications at Coker United Methodist Church in San Antonio, Texas. She’s with us today to dig deeper into online church and how to integrate it as a core part of our mission to...

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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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Rich Birch

Focusing on Jesus in a Distracted World with Steve Brown

Improving Your Working Partnership with an Executive Assistant with Jannet Morgan

5 Things You Say That Annoy Your Executive Pastor

Applying Pandemic Learnings from Church Online to Post-Pandemic Church with Jenn Clauser

Is Your Team Languishing? Practical Help for Executive Pastors.

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

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

Pitfalls and Possibilities of VR Church with Jonathan Armstrong

Insights After Six Months Of Being Reopened

Practical Strategy for Developing High-Capacity Volunteers with Danny Franks

From Nicodemus to Pilate: What Jesus’ Conversations Reveal with Jeremy Norton

You Should Have Been in the Room: What LCBC Taught About Multiplication

They’re Looking for God … Don’t Miss Them: Fixing Your Church’s Assimilation Problem with Greg Curtis & Tommy Carreras

Stop Starting from Scratch: How AI Is Changing Sermon Prep with Jon-Michael Sherman & Eric Smith

When Growth Gets Messy: How to Lead a Fast-Growing Church with Brandon Boyd

Why Gifted Leaders Still Fail: Lessons from 25 Years of Ministry with Allen Holmes

How to Be a Church Your Community Actually Trusts with Lou Pizzichillo

When Your Church Runs Out of Room: Smart Next Steps Before You Build with Jeff Beachum & Curt Banter