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Subscribe to the unSeminary Podcast: //    Today's conversation is with three leaders who work to help churches like yours and mine in the whole area of generosity and systems. We discuss a brand new report that that explores the relationship between donor behavior and new technologies like mobile giving and online...

  Sarah Stanley is the Youth Support Pastor at The Meeting House ... a 15 campus multisite church! In this interview Sarah gives some great insights into how to motivate students to engage in compassionate outreach into their communities. She talks about some the lessons they've been learning about seeing...

//my.leadpages.net/leadbox-829.jsThere are only two kinds of church leaders when it comes to money for their ministries ... those who want more of it and those who lie about not wanting more of it! Like a seed planted in fertile soil, I believe each one of the following ideas can bear...

Subscribe to the unSeminary Podcast: //    Tim Stevens is a team leader with the Vanderbloemen Search Group, an executive search firm that helps churches and ministries find great leaders. Previously he was the executive pastor at Granger Community Church in Indiana. During his twenty years there, he helped grow the church...

Subscribe to the unSeminary Podcast: //    Jordan Schiller is a part of the leadership team at Real Thread. This is fantastic conversation as we chat about how t-shirts can be a ministry tool. Real Thread produces hundreds of thousands of shirts every year and in this conversation we dive into what...

You can learn something and the lesson will stay with you for a while. But if you feel something ... that knowledge is with you for a lifetime.  How does it feel to arrive at your church and experience it as a first-time guest? It's nearly impossible for church leaders to...

unSeminary is all about providing helpful resources for pastors, ministers and church leaders. Today we're going to take a break and just have a little fun. Check out these totally crazy stock images that try to capture what it's like to be in ministry! NOTE: We can't help ourselves from...

We've just come out of a 90-Day Tithe Challenge at my church and it had a profound impact on our financial picture. We were going through a series on Malachi in June and it seemed like a perfect fit with the third part of the series. For those who don't know, a...

Erin Ricca & Tanja Martin I love the Family Ministry team at my church. They make me proud for a number of reasons ... they're creative, they pursue excellence, they are concerned with partnering with parents, and they take risks. This fall our team put together our first homegrown curriculum...

Today we have a very special guest blogging at unSeminary! Clint Taylor is one of the worship leaders at Liquid Church. He's a sharp thinker and a sensitive soul. He's also a fantastic musician and pastoral leader in our community. I asked him to write about what he's learning as...