A veteran of 20 years in strategic communications, Christian Pinkston offers a big-picture overview of several key factors in church crisis communications.
New Churches Podcast Episode 659
Episode 659: Choosing a church name is like picking an outfit you’re going to wear for the rest of your life. Host Clint Clifton discusses the pro and con arguments for six categories of church names with Todd Adkins, director...
Bob Burton
As you look to resource your residency, three key components ought to be included to produce health.
New Churches Podcast Episode 658
Episode 658: Each individual planter and every church context has a unique set of limitations and constraints. Host Clint Clifton discusses how those limitations can become strengths with Jessica Thompson, director of operations for the New City church planting network,...
Ryan Johnston
When it comes to funding residencies, we have everything we need within arm’s reach to do everything God has asked of us.
New Churches Podcast Episode 657
Episode 657: As pastoral work has in recent years grown more difficult, sabbaticals seem to be a growing trend. Host Clint Clifton discusses the need for, value of and different approaches to sabbaticals with Jessica Thompson, director of operations for...
What are the two best things any pastor could do to find great residents?
New Churches Podcast Episode 656
Episode 656: With most churches now starting with multiple-pastor, multiple-elders models, a de-emphasis on the role of deacons has occurred. Host Clint Clifton interviews Matt Smethurst, author of Deacons: How They Serve and Strengthen the Church, about the value of...
You can build a lasting residency program that you deeply believe in by working through a process that helps you define three things: your terms, your why and your content.
New Churches Podcast Episode 655
Episode 655: The “Zero Year” is the time of preparation that leads up to the church plant. Host Clint Clifton interviews Matt Smethurst, planter of a brand-new church in Richmond, Virginia, about the various “Zero Year” factors that moved him...
Clint Clifton
Your encouragement quite literally could change the course of someone's life forever. Let me tell you about two that changed mine.
2 Hours 11 Videos
We live in an online age that has changed the requirements of ministry and the very nature of how the church operates. What you post and how you interact with others online can either draw people into your church body or turn them away. Though it can be tempting to wish we lived in a different time unencumbered by the pitfalls of the digital space, our time is better spent learning how to navigate the online world and social media in a way that glorifies God.
New Churches Podcast Episode 654
Episode 654: Many church planters set out to reach people with the gospel but often find their new churches full of folks from other churches. Host Ed Stetzer discusses the challenge of staying outwardly focused to reach people far from...
Trevin Wax
Familiarity is the enemy of wonder. Church planters face a danger common to anyone heavily involved in ministry: We get familiar with holy things. Perhaps overly familiar.
New Churches Podcast Episode 653
Episode 653: Planting a church is challenging enough, but when your city is almost-completely unchurched, the task is truly daunting. Vance Pitman, founding pastor of Hope Church in Las Vegas, and Heiden Ratner, senior pastor of Walk Church in the...
My service in vocational ministry, particularly in church planting, has complicated my daily walk with Christ. The deeper into professional Christianity I got, the more I felt sinfully entitled in four ways.
Ed Stetzer & Matt Rogers
It’s not difficult to convince people to join a new venture like a church. But it is difficult to discern and invite the right people into your core team. Ed Stetzer and Matt Rogers examine five shared foundations for a...
New Churches Podcast Episode 652
Episode 652: What should a church planter do who’s at the soul level of tired? Host Ed Stetzer discusses the symptoms of ministry burnout with Jessica Thompson, director of operations for the New City church planting network, and James Hobson,...
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