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Rich Birch

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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John Finkelde on Reaching 60+% of People in Small Groups

Rich BirchRich Birch
  Joining me on the unSeminary podcast this week is John Finkelde from Perth, Australia. John has been in the ministry for about 33 years. He spent 10 years as a team pastor, followed by 20 years as a lead pastor. About 3 years ago, John and his wife began...
strategy

Is it possible to train robots to do pastoral care?

Rich BirchRich Birch
I recently finished reading Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler's book Bold, which is all about looking at areas of exponential change in the culture around us and leveraging those opportunities. It is a great read for leaders looking to expand their thinking about the future. One part of the conversation is recent...
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4 Mindsets Holding Back Your Multisite Church Multiplication

Rich BirchRich Birch
The vast majority of multisite churches don't get beyond 3 locations. According to Leadership Network's study of multisite churches, 85% have 3 or fewer total locations. Why do so many get stuck at this number? What's holding them back from fully leveraging this approach to ministry? I believe part of...
communications

9 Lessons from charity: water for Church Design & Communications

Rich BirchRich Birch
charity: water is a non-profit organization that provides clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. The organization was founded in 2006 and has helped fund 13,641 projects in 22 countries, benefiting over 4.6 million people. As of December 8, 2014, it has raised over $155 million. If you've been a part of the unSeminary...
multisitestrategy

Is “Multisite Church” the Last Good Idea?

Rich BirchRich Birch
Blockbuster video was amazing in its prime. Just 10 years ago, they had 9,000 locations and over 60,000 employees. It made renting a movie "simple and convenient" because they had so many locations. We only had to drive across town to access hundreds of movies from a wide variety of...
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