At least on an annual basis your church leadership needs to take some time away to consider how you are doing in reaching your mission. Many churches have found that the SWOT analysis is a helpful tool for evaluating their organizational progress.  SWOT is an acronym for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities...

Subscribe to the unSeminary Podcast: //    Carey Nieuwhof has led more change in his church in the last 10 years than most pastors will lead in 10 lifetimes! Carey is a "must listen to" leader for church leaders wanting to understand how to lead your church through change. This episode is packed...

Subscribe to the unSeminary Podcast: //    Corrin Bauer is the social media guru behind everything at Mars Hill Church. Today's episode is packed full of practical insights on leveraging social media channels for ministry outcomes. Corrin manages social media channels that currently reach over 500,000 people daily and in this interview...

The vision of your church will always stay the same ... usually it has something to do with reaching people and helping them grow in their faith. The strategy will mostly stay the same over the years because you build organizational momentum through consistently executing the same strategy. However, there...

Often in church leadership, we get so busy working "in the church" that it becomes harder to work "on the church." We're so focused on making weekends happen and caring for people that we lose perspective on whether we're seeing a difference in our community. The reality is, as church...

Subscribe to the unSeminary Podcast: //    We're so fortunate to have Ron Edmondson joining us for today's episode of the unSeminary podcast! Ron is a fantastic leader and provides some amazing insights into helping turn churches around and also the critical place that systems play in your church. Make sure to...

Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or social sectors, to advance their own interests. - Jim Collins Organizational "silos" is the term given to departments or ministries within your church that have a tendency to...

For years as a church leader I would proudly declare that "every weekend at our church is 'special' ... we don't do 'special weekends' because new guests arrive every weekend at our church!'" It sounded so good when I said it! It came from a good spot ... wanting to...

"Good company upon the road is the shortest cut." - Author Unknown Making your church more relational is important regardless of it's size. In small churches it's often assumed everyone knows everyone and so as leaders we don't work to ensure that people are connecting. In medium size churches we're embarrassed...

Is your church thinking about adding new service times in the future? We recently interviewed a number of church leaders within the unSeminary community who have led their churches through this change to help extract some helpful hints for you. I've attempted to compress all of this learning down into the...