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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7 Leadership Tensions in Growing Churches

Rich BirchJanuary 19, 2014

"Every organization has problems that shouldn’t be fixed and tensions that shouldn’t be resolved." - Andy Stanley Leadership is about living in the middle of a number of tensions that won't ever be resolved ... in fact if you resolve the tension you end up creating a whole bunch of...

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Kevin Bordeaux on turning a church around from 20 people to 300 in 16 months!

Rich BirchJanuary 16, 2014

Subscribe to the unSeminary Podcast: // Kevin Bordeaux was called to a declining church of 20 people and over the next 16 months the church grew to over 300 people. Today's podcast is an inspiring story of how Kevin led through that change. He offers a bunch of insights for church...

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Jason Curlee on How Campus Pastors Gain Influence

Rich BirchJanuary 9, 2014

Subscribe to the unSeminary Podcast: // The multisite church movement continues to gain momentum around the world. Core to this strategy is an entirely new group of church leaders called "Campus Pastors" and they are vitally important to a healthy multisite strategy. On today's show we explore this important role and...

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8 Elements of Effective Offering Talks (Plus 8 Example Scripts!)

Rich BirchJanuary 6, 2014

The three minutes before you receive the offering at your church are incredibly important. You need to craft that experience with the same intentionality that you give the core message for the service. Ensuring the "offering talk" is done well every week will boost the resources you have for your...

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Greg Atkinson on 4 Keys to Creating an Irresistible Church

Rich BirchJanuary 2, 2014

Subscribe to the unSeminary Podcast: // On today's podcast we have church consultant, author and pastor Greg Atkinson. We're talking about four areas that every church should work on to become more irresistible in the coming year. This episode is overflowing with helpful thoughts on how to make your church the...

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Frank Bealer on Ensuring Alignment in Multisite Churches

Rich BirchDecember 19, 2013

Subscribe to the unSeminary Podcast: // Only 15% of multisite churches make it beyond 3 campuses ... Elevation Church has 9 locations! Today's podcast is with Frank Bealer, the Family Ministry pastor from Elevation Church. He provides some proven mindsets, tactics and approaches for developing a cohesive ministry across many locations....

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7 Books to Add Your Christmas Break Reading List

Rich BirchDecember 17, 2013

Every year there is a lull in activity after Christmas but before things really heat up in January and I love taking some time to read in that window. I find that it's a great time of year to reflect and reorient my own leadership as I look forward to...

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Ben Stroup on Leveraging Content to Move People to Action

Rich BirchDecember 12, 2013

Subscribe to the unSeminary Podcast: // Today's interview is a first for the unSeminary Podcast ... we have Ben Stroup joining us and he's not a local church leader! Ben is an expert on leveraging content to move people towards action. Today's podcast is perfect for church leaders who have ever...

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6 Lessons I Learned From Spending a Day with a Homeless Survivor

Rich BirchDecember 10, 2013

Today's post is more personal than what I normally write here ... I'm attempting to understand something that happened to me last weekend when I had the honor of hosting David as he visited one of our campuses. David is a survivor of homelessness after having lived on the streets...

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8 Tips for Leading Your Leaders

Rich BirchDecember 10, 2013

"If you believe lack of authority prevents you from leading effectively, it is time to rethink your understanding of leadership." — Mike Bonem and Roger Patterson Most ministry leaders are following someone. We all have leaders in authority "over" us. I've spent most of my ministry career responding to other...