We’re happy to be back and talking today with Josh Whitehead from Faith Promise Church in Knoxville, TN. Faith Promise has been around for 20 years and started in Oak Ridge, TN, without a pastor. The original group wanted to impact the unchurched in their community by being a different...

Every Thursday on the unSeminary podcast, we get the opportunity to learn from some incredible church leaders who are making an impact in their communities. Our hope is that you get some practical help for your church, inspiration to keep going and have a little fun along the way! To...

Google Maps has a handy (AND FREE!) tool that you can use to import a spreadsheet of addresses onto a map for use at your church. Our brains are very good at picking out patterns and visualization of data like this can be a powerful tool for decision-making. It could...

Core to every approach to multisite church are campus pastors. There are thousands of these local pastoral leaders enabling churches to reach more people faster than any other approach to church growth today. They are my heroes! I've had the privilege to see dozens of them up close over the last...

Last Sunday we canceled all 11 of our regular services at Liquid Church and asked people to join us at the Jersey Shore for one large service. It was an amazing Sunday as thousands of people from all our locations came together to celebrate what God has done through our church...

The vast majority of multisite churches don't get beyond 3 locations. According to Leadership Network's study of multisite churches, 85% have 3 or fewer total locations. Why do so many get stuck at this number? What's holding them back from fully leveraging this approach to ministry? I believe part of...

Blockbuster video was amazing in its prime. Just 10 years ago, they had 9,000 locations and over 60,000 employees. It made renting a movie "simple and convenient" because they had so many locations. We only had to drive across town to access hundreds of movies from a wide variety of...

  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...

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...

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...