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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27% of Leading Churches’ Websites Tested Fail Important Google Test

Rich BirchMay 31, 2016

Your website is more important than the front door of your church. It serves as your ministry's public face to the community you are attempting to reach and serve. Long gone are the days when your website was a "nice to have" frill for your ministry ... it's now a...

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Richard Lee on How Your Church Can Engage International Justice Issues

Rich BirchMay 26, 2016

Thanks for taking the time today to listen as we talk with Richard Lee, Director of Church Mobilization with International Justice Mission. International Justice Mission (IJM) was started 18 years ago and is the largest anti-slavery organization in the world today. They currently have 17 field offices around the...

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5 Ways Your Church Can Deal With Short Attention Spans

Rich BirchMay 24, 2016

Have you heard that our attention spans are shorter than a goldfish's? It's true. A recent landmark study done by Microsoft found that the average human attention span lasts 8 seconds. Trusty goldfish can pay attention for 9 seconds. The study goes on to show that our ability to concentrate is...

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Troy Palermo on Lessons Learned from a Church with 85% Small Group Participation

Rich BirchMay 19, 2016

Hey, everybody, and welcome to the unSeminary podcast. Thanks so much for joining us today as we talk with Troy Palermo from Life Point Church in Ohio. If you don’t know Life Point Church, you should. It started just over 10 years ago and is now made up of about...

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9 Tips for “Leading Up” at Your Church

Rich BirchMay 17, 2016

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. - Henry Ward Beecher All of us work for somebody. Even if we sit in the senior pastor role at our church, we most likely report to a board. Often, we think more about how...

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Thom Rainer on How Churches Are Making An Impact Today

Rich BirchMay 12, 2016

Thanks for joining us for this week’s episode of the unSeminary podcast. I’m excited to have Dr. Thom Rainer, president and CEO of LifeWay Christian Resources, for this episode. Thom has written over two dozen books, has a great blog and podcast, and we’re very excited to have him...

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6 Alternatives to Talking About the Weather in Your Announcements

Rich BirchMay 10, 2016

Please stop talking about the weather in the announcements at your church. Seriously. The reason some church leaders end up talking about the weather is that they are looking for a common point of connection with people in the congregation. If we keep using this verbal crutch, we will train...

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Lane Sebring on Elements of Killer Sermons

Rich BirchMay 5, 2016

Hey, everybody, and welcome to the unSeminary podcast. This week’s guest is Lane Sebring of the website PreachingDonkey.com and author of the new book Preaching Killer Sermons. Coming out of seminary, Lane saw that much of the focus was on having a biblically accurate sermon about the life and teachings of...

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25 Tips for Capturing Engaging Video Interviews

Rich BirchMay 3, 2016

We're honored to have Ben Stapley guest posting for us today. He is the Executive Pastor at The Life Christian Church — and he's a fantastic, multi-talented leader! Ben provides oversight and leadership for a wide variety of areas at his church. Many churches use video testimonies in their services to...

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Lori Wilhite on Unique Challenges of Spouses of Pastors

Rich BirchApril 28, 2016

Welcome to the unSeminary podcast and thanks for spending some time with us today. We have Lori Wilhite speaking with us for this episode. Lori leads a ministry called Leading and Loving It targeted at pastors’ wives and women in ministry. Her husband is the senior pastor at Central...