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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Geo-Targeted Maps for Your Church: Step-by-Step Tutorial

Rich BirchJuly 21, 2015

Google Maps has a handy (AND FREE!) tool that you can use to import a spreadsheet of addresses onto a map for use at your church. Our brains are very good at picking out patterns and visualization of data like this can be a powerful tool for decision-making. It could...

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Traction Tactic // Publishing as an Invite Tool

Rich BirchJuly 16, 2015

Subscribe to the unSeminary Podcast: // Programming Note // The unSeminary Podcast is going to be on a hiatus until September. We'll return then with lots of great new episodes with some fascinating church leaders. Enjoy the summer! Today’s episode is a little different than usual. Instead of hosting an interview...

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Brian Williams and the Way We Communicate in Our Churches

Rich BirchJuly 15, 2015

Brian Williams seems like a good guy. He’s been married for almost 30 years … consistently reported news to the American public for NBC News for almost as long … gosh, the guy even won “Father of the Year”!

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3 Tools Every Campus Pastor Needs

Rich BirchJuly 14, 2015

Core to every approach to multisite church are campus pastors. There are thousands of these local pastoral leaders enabling churches to reach more people faster than any other approach to church growth today. They are my heroes! I've had the privilege to see dozens of them up close over the last...

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Frank Bealer on Working Across Teams at Your Church

Rich BirchJuly 2, 2015

Once again, Frank Bealer from Elevation Church is joining me on today’s podcast. Elevation Church is doing a lot of exciting things in their growth and Frank is here to tell us how they’ve learned to help each other. Helping each other grow It can be hard sometimes to...

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9 Things That Will Still Be True for Your Church in 10 Years

Rich BirchJune 30, 2015

Leaders always attempt to anticipate what is going to change, so they can prepare for those changes in their organizations. Great church leaders are like sailors who are reading the breezes and adjusting the sails to catch the winds of change. While we worry about the latest social media trend or where...

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Adrian Schoonmaker on Developing Leaders in a Fast Growing Church

Rich BirchJune 25, 2015

I’m super excited to have Adrian Schoonmaker from Grace Community Church in the Hudson Valley, New York, with us today. We’ll be talking about what it takes to develop spiritual coaches that can go out and really spread the church’s message and bring people to Christ. About Grace Community...

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8 Lessons for Churches from Hillary Clinton’s Emails

Rich BirchJune 23, 2015

Email continues to be the killer communication tool for churches today. It's ubiquitous, inexpensive, response driven and easy to use. It's a great way to move people to action within your church ... whether it's getting them to attend, volunteer on a team, give to your mission or anything else....

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Charles Stone talks about Brain-Savvy Ministry

Rich BirchJune 18, 2015

Have you ever stopped to think how amazing the human brain is? It’s capable of so many reactions in an amazingly short time. God gave us this brain, so doesn’t it make sense to understand it and learn how to use it to the full advantage within your ministry?...

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8 Observations from Young Life for Local Church Leaders

Rich BirchJune 16, 2015

A few weekends ago, I had the honor of joining a bunch of Young Life leaders as they hosted a leadership development weekend. Young Life is an international student ministry with hundreds of local clubs and 31 premium camps. I was privileged to spend time teaching them and seeing their...