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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,...

Subscribe to the unSeminary Podcast: //    William has been able to combine over 15 years of ministry experience as a Senior Pastor with the best practices of Executive Search to provide churches with a unique offering: a deep understanding of local church work with the very best knowledge and practices of...

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...

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 the ALS...

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: //    For nearly 10 years whether it be financial, leadership, or even ministry help, God has allowed Chris to work with ministry leaders to help them maximize the challenges that come from effectively transferring vision to their team. In this interview Chris talks about the importance...

For the last few summers our Family Ministry team has been hosting an arts and music camp called Camp Rock. Our team really does go above and beyond to make it great for our guests who participate. There is a lot that I'd love to celebrate that happens at Camp...

We can get stuck in a rut when it comes to our leadership and church communications. Even in the most "progressive" churches we can just do things the way that they have always been done. Here are a few areas that I think we can suffer from our past habits...