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...

  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...

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: //    Dan is the the Executive Pastor of 12 Stone Church in Georgia. He’s been known as the “pastors’ coach” because he provides practical and encouraging insights for pastors across the country. In this episode Dan gives us a behind the scenes look at 12Stone Church...

"The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -- that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born." -Warren G. Bennis Leadership...

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....

Subscribe to the unSeminary Podcast: //    Today's unSeminary podcast is a special episode designed to help you thrive (not just survive) this summer at your church. We all know that summer can be a tough time for churches ... lagging attendance, lower volunteer engagement, revenue is down ... but what if...

Recently I asked some friends of mine to help me understand how they use job descriptions in their churches and I've pulled together those learnings into this post so we can all benefit! I'm so thankful for the churches that answered my questions and for them providing the great examples...

Subscribe to the unSeminary Podcast: //    Today's podcast is a conversation with the Executive Pastor at a fast growing church in the North West called East Lake Church. Sprouting out of the one of the least "churched" communities in the country, East Lake gives some fascinating insights into reaching out into...

Subscribe to the unSeminary Podcast: //    Grace Chapel is a 60 year old church ... not exactly the stereotype of the sort of church that is adding new campuses as a way to reach out to it's community! But Tom VanAntwerp talks through how this church is leveraging campus expansion to...