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...

  Welcome to this Thursday’s edition of the podcast here on unSeminary. I’m so excited you’re tuning in this week because today, we’re going global! For the first time here on the podcast, a Non-North American church leader is joining me: Morgan Herselman, of Southpoint Church in Cape Town, South...

Susan Wojcicki is the CEO of YouTube (Google's category-dominating video service). She has seen Google grow from the very start ... the company was once based in her garage! In 2011, Wojcicki authored an almost instant classic article entitled "The Eight Pillars of Innovation" about how the company pushes itself forward. These...

    Welcome to this Thursday’s edition of the unSeminary podcast. This week I’m super-excited to be talking to Chris Vacher, also known as Chris from Canada, who is an excellent leader at C4 Church, east of Toronto. Chris got this week’s session started by filling us in on his...

Is your church launching a new campus? Or are you moving from one rental facility to another? At some point in your church's journey, you're going to be looking at new sites. Here are some tips for what to bring along when you visit potential locations: Smartphone Camera // You can't take...

1/3 of all "prime time" internet traffic is from Netflix. We can't ignore the popularity of Netflix. It's a mixture of clever marketing, excellent deployment and being in the right place at the right time. In a move similar to what iTunes did in the music industry 10 years ago, Netflix has...

Announcements are the part of your service that move people to action. They help people take their next steps into community with your church. Why would you want to take a break from that on any given weekend? Here are a few reasons why I think it's wise to stop doing announcements...

Clarity is the highest goal of all church communications. Our role is to cut through the clutter and deliver the message we are giving with as much precision as possible. In order to do that we employ a wide variety of tactics to persuade people towards the goals that we've...

  Spring is finally upon us, so it seems like a great time to talk about planting! In this week’s podcast here on unSeminary, I had the opportunity to talk to Brandon Cox, senior pastor at Grace Hills Church in Bentonville, Arkansas. If you’ve heard of Bentonville, it’s probably because...

As I reflect on my almost 20 years of ministry experience, one of the things that I'm proudest of is serving a handful of amazing communicators. I've played that "second seat" role to support great teaching pastors as they use their gifts and skills to communicate the message of Jesus. Here are some...