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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20+ Downloadable Graphics Your Church Can Use to Promote Baptisms

Rich BirchJune 7, 2017

Baptism is a vitally important part of discipleship process for the people at your church. It's also an amazing time in the life of your church. Make sure that you are leveraging this opportunity in the life of your church to communicate about all the life change that is taking...

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Jon Morrison on Being a Millennial Reaching Millennials

Rich BirchJune 1, 2017

Welcome back to this week’s unSeminary podcast. Thanks so much for joining us today as we talk with a friend of mine, Jon Morrison, who is an author and a blogger. He is a different kind of guest from our usual visitors and he is here today to talk with...

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Carl George & Warren Bird on How Your Church Can Break Growth Barriers

Rich BirchMay 25, 2017

Hey, everybody, and thank you for joining us for another episode of the unSeminary podcast. Today I’m talking with Warren Bird and Carl George. Warren works for ECFA (Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability). Carl was a professor for years at Fuller. The two of them collaborated to write the highly...

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Tony Morgan on Helping Churches Get Unstuck

Rich BirchMay 18, 2017

Hey, everybody, welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast. I’m excited have with us Tony Morgan, lead strategist and founder of the Unstuck Group. Tony has been helping churches for years, but he started the Unstuck Group after hearing from other pastors about the struggles and roadblocks they were facing within...

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Dan Zimbardi on Defining and Deploying A Unified Team Culture

Rich BirchMay 11, 2017

Hey, everyone, it’s great to have you join us today for this week’s episode of the unSeminary podcast. I’m excited to have with us today Dan Zimbardi, the executive pastor of Sandals Church. Sandals Church started 20 years ago in Riverside, California, in Pastor Matt Brown's living room with eight people....

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Horizontal Hostility: What Is It, Why Is It Killing the Church, and How to Fix It

Rich BirchMay 10, 2017

Horizontal hostility is a sociological phenomenon used to describe infighting or factionalism within a minority movement. Rather than banding together, subgroups snipe and fight with each other. It’s that weird thing that happens in small subcultures - when outsiders look in, they can’t believe the groups fighting each other. Some...

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Kevin Lloyd Offers Help in Starting a Leadership Pipeline At Your Church

Rich BirchMay 4, 2017

Thanks so much for joining us for this week’s unSeminary podcast. We have Kevin Lloyd, executive pastor at Stevens Creek Church in Augusta, Georgia with us today. Stevens Creek is thirty years old this year and has 2 campuses with 2500 people. It’s a church that is focused on connecting with...

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5 Ways to Use Scarcity to Drive Engagement at Your Church

Rich BirchMay 3, 2017

Supply and demand is not only a fundamental economic principle, but a cultural assumption. When the supply of a product or service becomes scarce, it becomes more valuable. If there is an unlimited availability, it simply remains worthless for people. Is it possible to leverage scarcity to drive engagement at...

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Phill Christiansen gives practical insights from a turn around church that went from 500 to 2900!

Rich BirchApril 27, 2017

Hello, everyone, and thanks for joining us for today’s unSeminary podcast. We’re excited to have our guest Phill Christiansen from Canvas Church in Montana. Phill has been at Canvas Church for about four years and he has seen it grow quickly and thrive during that time. The church was on...

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5 Reasons Your Church Needs to Do (At Least) Two Services Every Sunday!

Rich BirchApril 26, 2017

“The harvest is great, but the workers are few. So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask him to send more workers into his fields." - Jesus (Luke 10:2) It is a fact that doing one service every Sunday is easier than doing two. There...