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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6 Ways to Keep People Informed Without Calling Another Meeting

Rich BirchMarch 17, 2015

Meetings can be an incredible tool to push the mission of your church forward. A well-executed approach to meetings will ensure people focus on the right ideas and issues. However, meetings can drift to places where they actually slow down the mission. Some common problems that I've seen creep into churches...

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5 Ways to Promote Your Easter Services for $5

Rich BirchMarch 3, 2015

Easter is an amazing opportunity for your church. Two factors align to make it a great time to reach out to your community: People are more likely to invite their friends. Their friends are more likely to say yes! As we approach Easter, we're all looking for simple and easy-to-use...

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Why would your church host a special needs prom?

Rich BirchFebruary 24, 2015

Karen Veenstra is part of our staff team at Liquid Church. I asked her to reflect on an event we hosted a few weeks back called Night2Shine ... a prom for adults with special needs. It was an amazing evening, one of those times where I was so proud of...

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7 Keys to Baptizing More People at Your Church

Rich BirchFebruary 18, 2015

We were recently on a leadership team retreat, taking time to reflect on what God is doing at our church. I'm honored to serve at Liquid Church and I count it a privilege to play a small part in what it's doing. One of the things we were celebrating from...

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5 Reasons Your Church Shouldn’t Go Multisite

Rich BirchFebruary 17, 2015

The multisite revolution is the biggest thing to happen to the broader church movement in my almost 20 years of ministry. I've personally been involved in the launch of 12 campuses—working on 2 more as we speak!—and I've coached a bunch of other leaders through the process. I've written a lot...

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Bobby Williams on Leveraging Email to Follow Up with First Time Guests [replay]

Rich BirchFebruary 12, 2015

Today's podcast is a replay of one of our very first episodes because I think it's important for leaders to wrestle with what this leader has to say. We're launching a brand new course in unSeminary Premium called Email 201 ... it's all about leveraging email as a marketing...

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6 Ways to Derail Your Church Announcements

Rich BirchFebruary 10, 2015

Announcements are a great tool for moving people to action. However, it can be difficult to keep them fresh and creative every weekend. Even worse, the people who do them can get lazy and some bad habits sneak in that undermine their effectiveness. Here are some of the habits I've seen...

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Best Practices in Church Internship Programs

Rich BirchFebruary 5, 2015

Subscribe to the unSeminary Podcast: // Internships are all about investing in the next generation! On today's podcast I have two friends and collegues - Sara Defazio & Jason Yost - and we have a conversation about what we've been learning about internships at Liquid Church. This episode is perfect for church...

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6 Reasons Why Email Beats Social Media for Church Communications

Rich BirchFebruary 4, 2015

I've heard too many people say that "email is dead." They celebrate the early results of every hot up-and-coming social network. People get taken in by the vanity numbers of these networks and lose focus on their most important digital communication tool. Email continues to outperform social media because of...

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26 Lessons from 15 Church Annual Reports

Rich BirchFebruary 2, 2015

Churches use their annual report as a tool to communicate with leaders, volunteers, donors and the general community about what happened over the past year. Done well, annual reports engage people in the mission ... done poorly, they aren't worth the paper they are printed on (or the hard drive...