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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Joanna la Fleur offers Practical Help for Balancing Communications in Your Church

Rich BirchMarch 9, 2017

Joanna la Fleur is the Creative Communications Director at C4 Church in the Eastern Suburbs of Toronto, Canada. This is a fast growing multisite church aiming to impact 10,000 people within their community. In this conversation, Joanna provides some uber practical advice on how to balance all the various communications...

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Drake De Long-Farmer on Building Teams amidst a Church Turnaround

Rich BirchMarch 2, 2017

Drake De Long-Farmer is the executive pastor at Gateway Church where he leads various teams (including HOUSE PARTIES and our Pastoral Team), working with key staff and interns in ministry development and also oversees Gateway operations. Discipleship is at the core of his role and ministry teams. Drake is a...

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Josh Baird on Rebooting Groups to Increase Engagement

Rich BirchFebruary 23, 2017

Josh Baird is the Associate Pastor of The Life Church and serves with his wife, Brittney, as Campus Pastor of the Warrenton Campus. They are the proud parents of one beautiful daughter, Raylee, and 3 sons, Roman, Judah, & Israel. Josh is a passionate, visionary leader who believes in raising...

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40 Inspirational Social Media Graphics to Use During Lent

Rich BirchFebruary 22, 2017

Lent is a period of about six weeks before Easter. It is a time when church leaders encourage their people to be quiet and thoughtful, preparing themselves for Easter. The period of Lent ends at Easter, which is a time of great celebration as Christians consider how Jesus had died...

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David Cederquist on Urban / Suburban Church Partnerships That Work

Rich BirchFebruary 16, 2017

Brookside Community Church resides on the near-Eastside of Indianapolis and David Cederquist is it's pastor. BCC is a culturally and ethnically diverse family whose primary focus is to walk with each other in our brokenness in love and humility. All the while pursuing Christ as our Savior and Lord opening ourselves...

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Justin Varghese on Leadership Development Strategies That Work

Rich BirchFebruary 9, 2017

Hey, everybody, and welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast. We’re happy to have you here today as we talk with Justin Varghese, executive pastor at Venue Church. Venue Church is probably the youngest church we’ve featured on the podcast. It was started in 2013 and is one of the fastest...

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Matt Robertson Gives an Inside Look at Church Growing at 189%!

Rich BirchFebruary 2, 2017

Thanks so much for listening in today on the unSeminary podcast. It’s so great to have you joining us and we’re excited to be talking with Matt Robertson. Matt is from Gateway Fellowship Church, which started in 2008 in San Antonio. Gateway has done a lot of amazing things in reaching...

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Matt Hessel Coaches on Conflict Resolution for Churches

Rich BirchJanuary 26, 2017

Thanks so much for joining us today for the unSeminary podcast. Today we have Matt Hessel from Traders Point Christian Church. Traders Point Christian Church was founded in 1834. The church has grown a lot in the last eight years. They currently have two campuses and are getting ready to...

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5 Contracts Your Church Should Renegotiate Today

Rich BirchJanuary 24, 2017

Pastors and church leaders get into ministry because they want to help people, not because they want to run some small business. However, if churches don’t keep an eye on the business side of running their ministry, those issues can overtake the ministry and cause it to implode. I’ve seen too many...

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Greg Atkinson Reveals Secrets from Being a Church Secret Shopper

Rich BirchJanuary 19, 2017

Thanks so much for listening in today on the unSeminary podcast. It’s so great to have you joining us as we talk with Greg Atkinson. Greg has joined us on the unSeminary podcast twice before, and we’re happy to have him with us for a third time. Today we’re talking...