You've opened your church's Facebook or Twitter account...and you stare at the screen, wondering what content you should be posting on a regular basis. Social Media is about being social online. Don't jump too quickly into asking your community to do something. They need to "know, like and trust" you before...

To finish up the summer, our church hosted a series called Home Run Faith. We drew on the language and imagery of professional baseball to help people better understand New Testament characters and apply core life lessons. "Is your faith stuck in the minors or are you ready for the...

Warren Bird and Leadership Network have again released a study that church leaders need to pay attention to! This time they've set out to study 727 large churches (1,000-30,000 in weekend attendance) through the Leadership Network/Vanderbloemen 2014 Large Church Salary Report. You should take some time to dig through this report,...

This weekend all across the country people are going to get up in front of their churches and talk about upcoming events and opportunities to connect with community. They want to move their people to action but in reality a large portion of the room will simply tune out for...

Subscribe to the unSeminary Podcast: //    Growing churches today are utilizing multisite and church planting strategies to reproduce themselves for greater outreach and impact. This interview features a robost conversation with Jim Tomberlin & Tim Cool about the new rules for church buildings in a multisite, church planting, and giga-church world....

I've been thinking about this #IceBucketChallenge and how it's proven that smartphone videos are simple to produce and effective in communicating. How are you using the movie studio in your pocket to communicate with your people? Here are some ideas you can try this week! Volunteer Thank You // After your...

Subscribe to the unSeminary Podcast: //    Today's podcast is a rebroadcast of a webinar that we hosted at unSeminary all about how to record, produce and release your church's music. We dive deep with two leaders from Liquid Church as we talk about their experience with a song they just released...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY0IRo8LJyU] In case you've been asleep for the last two weeks ... here is Wikipedia's description of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge: The Ice Bucket Challenge, sometimes called the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, is an activity involving dumping a bucket of ice water on one's head or donating to...

Are you tired of starting the year at your church feeling as if you are already behind financially? Have you ever wanted to fund new ministry initiatives but you weren't sure where to get the money? Are you worried that you aren't going to finish this year "in the black"...

Subscribe to the unSeminary Podcast: //    With over a dozen years of local church ministry Justin has spent the last several years starting business' and ministries that partner with pastors and churches to advance the Kingdom. He is the founder of Helpstaff.me (now Vanderbloemen Search), Oaks School of Leadership, and MinistryCoach.tv...