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Encouraging Your Church to Invite with Nicky Gumbel
Encourage your attenders to invite friends to church or Alpha courses by sharing stories and helping your attenders identify their own story of faith. Hear Nicky Gumbel share what's been successful for his church and why stories are so powerful....
Service & Events
Three Tips for Stage Communication
It can be scary—having only a few minutes to convey all the news, initiatives, and stories that you want to share with your congregation during a service. But if you think of communicating from stage less as making announcements and more as casting vision, you'll be able to craft stronger, more coh...
Operations
Structure of a Staff Meeting
Staff meetings should be fun and effective! In this training you'll hear from one of our campus pastors on the structure of a typical staff meeting. From sharing stories of life-change to going over the team calendar and dedicating time to leadership development, use the tips offered here to improv...
Messages
Message Support: "This Is What We Do"
Do you do "t his ?" This opens doors and solves problems. This inspires others to do this , too—it’s the good kind of contagious. When they tell our life stories, we want them to put this at the top. We are hardwired for this . This is who we are, and This Is What We Do . "This" is all...
Creative
Storytelling: Why Latest Isn't Always Greatest
What we've learned: We have a saying here at Life.Church: Latest doesn't mean greatest. Just because a videographer is constantly updating to all the latest and most expensive technologies, that doesn't mean his stories will be that much more impactful. In fact, sometimes the simplest way...
Kids
Bible Adventure: Early Childhood Curriculum Training
The Bible App for Kids Curriculum from the LifeKids Team brings all the elements your preschoolers love best—like songs, animated characters, and an interactive host—together in a two-year curriculum designed to work in tandem with the stories in Bible App for Kids. View this training for a step-by...
Online Ministry
Continuing Online Ministry
Many churches, maybe even yours, were forced to begin online ministry within the matter of days as COVID-19 began to shut church doors. Church Online Platform has seen an impact like never before on people that had yet to hear the word of the Gospel prior to COVID-19. Hear these stories from Church...
Communications
Lead with Vision: Tips for Stage Communication
At Life.Church, Pastor Craig teaches the message every week via video to our campuses. But every campus has a campus pastor who is responsible for boots-on-the-ground pastoring to the people in that community. They take to the stage every week for what we call "stage time"—it's an opportunity to sh...
Leadership
Improve Communication with Stage Time Drills
At Life.Church, we don’t give “announcements.” We lead people to action. Because of this philosophy, leaders at our campuses set aside time weekly to practice how they’re going to interact with attenders from the stage. We call this Stage Time Drills. A Stage Time Drill begins with a speaker doing...
Messages
Message Support: "Church Is"
The word “church” holds different meanings, depending on who you ask. And if you ask us, a church isn’t a building. It’s people. Want to know more? Let’s talk this weekend about what Church Is —and what church could be. Rich Wilkerson, Jr. , pastor of VOUS Church in Miami, FL and author of Sa...
Online Ministry
Virtual Experience, Real Community
Church Online reaches a unique audience, and it comes with a unique set of tools and goals. While the Church Online Platform is versatile enough to accommodate many different ministry styles and technologies, here's how we approach our online ministry. Each of our online experiences...
Creative
Church Social Media: ​Advanced Strategies for Facebook and Instagram
If your church is on social media, chances are you use Facebook and Instagram as part of your strategy. So, how do you grow an audience on these platforms? What are tips for engagement? And, what about influencer marketing? At the Church Social Media Roundtable, social media managers and communic...
Leadership
Leadership Podcast: The Forbidden Phrase
Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast . Like what you’re learning? Share it with your friends, family, or co-workers and let’s learn to grow as leaders together! In this episode, Craig discusses three words that shouldn’t be part of a leader’s vocabulary: Our people wo...
Messages
​Message Support: There Is a Reason
Series Length: 3 Weeks (As a reminder, sermon content is being planned week-to-week in this season and is subject to change.) Series Context: Pain. Anxiety. Frustration. Our struggles don't always have answers in the moment—but even when we can't see it, they always have a purpose. D...
Giving & Finance
Tips for Year-End Giving
It’s part of the natural rhythm of the year: giving tends to increase during the Christmas season. At Life.Church, we don’t take this for granted. We’re intentional about being humble and being good stewards of our resources, and that includes how we approach our tithing and giving communication at...