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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Thriving Multisite Church in a Rural Context with Andy Addis

Rich BirchOctober 10, 2019

Thanks for joining into this week’s unSeminary podcast. Today we have Andy Addis joining us from CrossPoint Church. CrossPoint is a rural multisite church. They now have eleven campuses in Kansas as well as other partner locations across the country and in other parts of the world. Andy is with...

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3 Campus Growth Tactics for Your Multisite Church

Rich BirchOctober 8, 2019

Has your campus growth stalled out? Have you launched a few locations but they aren't reaching the community in the way that you'd like? Are you wondering why your campuses aren't growing as large as your initial location? In a recent study of the multisite church movement, Leadership Network found...

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Lessons Learned from Studying the Multisite Church Movement with Warren Bird

Rich BirchOctober 3, 2019

Welcome back to the unSeminary podcast. This week I’m excited to have Dr. Warren Bird back chatting with us today. We’re talking about multisite this month and Warren is a great source for insights on this movement. He is the VP of Research and Equipping at the Evangelical Council for...

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6 Mistakes Churches Launching Multisite Campuses in 2020 Need to Avoid

Rich BirchOctober 1, 2019

Is your church considering launching a multisite campus in the next year? Do you think a new campus might be the best next step in your church’s growth journey? Have you wondered if this approach could help you reach more people more effectively? Over the years, I’ve had the privilege...

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Church Multiplication, Church Planting & Multisite with Daniel Im

Rich BirchSeptember 26, 2019

Welcome to the unSeminary podcast. This week we are joined by Daniel Im, an author and teaching pastor at the Fellowship Church in Nashville. Daniel is from Canada, and he has traveled across the world to help plant churches. He has been in Nashville for the last four years and...

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Insights from 8 Church Mergers with Dan Zimbardi

Rich BirchSeptember 19, 2019

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 of California....

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Powerful Currents to Saturate Your City for Christ with Tim Lucas

Rich BirchSeptember 12, 2019

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 that church...

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Practical Help For Group Leaders at Your Church with Heather Zempel

Rich BirchSeptember 5, 2019

Welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast - I’m super excited to have Heather Zempel with us. Heather is the Discipleship Pastor and Campus Ministries Director at National Community Church in Washington, DC. In Heather’s role as Discipleship Pastor, she spends a lot of time working with small groups. We’ve talked...

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Leading Your Church In This Time of Sexual Questioning with Bruce Miller

Rich BirchAugust 29, 2019

Welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast. Today I’m talking with Bruce Miller, senior pastor of Christ Fellowship in Texas. Today we’ll be talking to Bruce about his book Leading a Church in a Time of Sexual Questioning. Reach out. // Bruce mentions that the idea for the book came from...

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Help Gaining Clarity in a 20 Year Old Church with Rick Raiford

Rich BirchAugust 22, 2019

Thanks for joining us for this episode of the unSeminary podcast. This week we’re talking with Rick Raiford, the executive pastor at Daystar Church in North Carolina. Daystar started as a small country church in Greensboro, North Carolina and over the past twenty years has grown to become one of...