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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5 Ways Artificial Intelligence Can Help Church Leaders

Rich BirchNovember 12, 2019

Have you been listening to the buzz about artificial intelligence in the broader culture? Artificial intelligence used to seem like one of those distant technologies that is always five years down the road; however, it is already creeping into our daily lives. Whether it's asking Siri to text your wife...

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Urban Church Planting that Thrives with Scott Ancarrow

Rich BirchNovember 7, 2019

Welcome to this episode of the unSeminary podcast. This week we have Scott Ancarrow joining us. He is a church planter and leader from The Foundry, which launched in 2013 in downtown Baltimore, Maryland. Scott is with us today to talk about church planting in a city and the importance...

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Secrets to Launching Healthy Multisite Church Campuses

Rich BirchNovember 5, 2019

When you reflect on the last 20 to 30 years, what was one of the changes in the local church that had the greatest impact? When considering the historical changes and growth of the church, it's difficult to find a movement that has had as large an impact as the...

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The Future of Multisite with Greg Ligon

Rich BirchOctober 31, 2019

Thank you for listening in to this week’s unSeminary podcast. We’re focusing on the multisite movement this month and today we have Greg Ligon, the chief operating officer at Leadership Network joining us. Leadership Network provides tools and resources to help churches reach and impact more people for Christ. They...

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5 Growth Lessons for Your Church from the Multisite Movement

Rich BirchOctober 29, 2019

Is your church considering going multisite? Maybe you already have another location or two and are thinking about launching more campuses in the future. Or is your church a single location that’s not at all interested in multiplying into new locations? The multisite movement has profoundly impacted the church across...

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Under the Hood of the Technology Driving So Many Multisite Churches with Paul Martel

Rich BirchOctober 24, 2019

Thanks for joining this week’s unSeminary podcast. This is multisite month and I’m excited to have Paul Martel with us today. He is the CEO and cofounder of Resi, formally known as Living As One. Paul began his work doing broadcasts at Hewlett-Packard and managing their transmissions. In the meantime,...

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7 Best Practices for Unity Building in Multisite Church Teams

Rich BirchOctober 22, 2019

Are you serving in a multisite church and sensing some tension building between members of your broader team? Do you currently feel a sense of competition with other campuses that isn’t entirely healthy? Do you serve on a central support team and are looking for ways to increase the unity...

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The Silent Suffocator of Multisite Church with Jenni Catron

Rich BirchOctober 17, 2019

Welcome to another special episode of the unSeminary podcast where we're continuing to chat about multisite. Today I'm joined by Jenni Catron from the organization 4Sight. Jenni and her husband helped plant a church in Nashville which introduced her to the world of multisite. During that time she worked at...

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10 Multisite Churches to Follow Today That You (Probably) Haven’t Heard Of

Rich BirchOctober 15, 2019

Are you thinking about going multisite? Following leading churches is a great way to see how others have approached this method of church growth. Are you already multisite but want to improve your processes? Tracking closely with other leading churches can help you debug your own issues! As a practice,...

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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...