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Latino Led Outreach… In English
Posted on 5/17/2013 by Warren Bird
After a lucrative 10-year Wall Street career in investment management, native New Yorker, Joshua Rodriguez resigned in 1996 to enter ministry full-time. Today, along with his wife Paula, he leads a thriving bilingual church just outside New York City. CitylineChurch / La Iglesia de Cityline, of Jersey City, NJ, offers....
Growing A Recovery Ministry
Posted on 5/15/2013 by Warren Bird
Growing A Recovery Ministry: Contex-Sensitive Innovations and Christ- Centeredness Define Successful Programs
Multisite Must-Read List
Posted on 5/14/2013 by Warren Bird
As a mulitsite church leader what books should you be reading?
Diverse DNA - Varying Factors In Church Cultures Lead To Rapid Growth
Posted on 5/8/2013 by Warren Bird
Pastors and church staff in rapidly growing churches experience a unique set of challenges. How they deal with those challenges will shape future growth and church health.
Discipling the High-Capacity Giver: New Attitudes and New Approaches to Caring for Wealthier Members
Posted on 5/1/2013 by Warren Bird
What Works in Global Missions? Help Us Find Out
Posted on 4/10/2013 by Warren Bird
What are churches doing today to make the greatest difference for Christ beyond our borders? Leadership Network is trying to find out, and you can help. Why are we doing this?
According to Eric Swanson, director of the Global Connections Leadership Community, "Some of the best models for global ministry come not from doing things "to" people or "for" people but with people in real partnerships with those who have eyes, ears, and feet on the ground. What kind of partnerships do you have? We'd like to find out what's working and where you may be stuck so we can all makle a greater kingdom impact."
Reggie McNeal, director of the Missional Renaissance Leasership Community adds, "On my last trip overseas...
A Life-Giving Church in Both Spanish and English
Posted on 3/19/2013 by Warren Bird
Who could have imagined what God would do when an English-language church started a Bible study cell in Spanish?
The Spanish-language group grew until it became a church. It continued to grow until it became one of the largest-attendance churches in the city of Orlando, Florida. Today, 30 years later, an entire generation of first-generation Hispanic immigrants have found Christ through this pioneering church named Iglesia El Calvario (Calvary Church), member of the ######## of God.
But what about their children who may prefer English? They value their Hispanic heritage but want a more English-friendly environment,...
Sergio De La Mora Leads a Heart Revolution
Posted on 3/14/2013 by Warren Bird
"The condition of your heart will always determine the course of your life" (The Heart Revolution)
Sergio De La Mora believes that God has called him to start a heart revolution. To this leading-voice pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Diego, a heart revolution comes from experiencing the ongoing power of Christ. It results in a life marked by forgiveness and hope. It leads us to choose to move forward, keeping our heart turned toward God rather than letting the circumstances of life dictate our destiny.
International Partnerships and Missions Survey for Large Churches
Posted on 3/14/2013 by Warren Bird
What are churches doing today to make the greatest difference for Christ beyond our borders? We’d like to help you learn from other churches like yours: if you’ll tell us what you’re doing through global connections, we’ll give you an executive summary of what others say as well. This involves missions, global service and outreach, and other international partnerships.
Recent Tweets I Don’t Want You To Miss!
Posted on 3/8/2013 by Warren Bird
Please take a quick skim of these recent tweets (@warrenbird), just in case you missed any that you’d find helpful.
When Churches Merge
Posted on 2/28/2013 by Warren Bird
Joining forces may make sense—but consider the legal, financial angles first.
Gateway Church Partners with Leadership Network in Europe
Posted on 2/19/2013 by Warren Bird
Gunnar Johnson talks about why Gateway Church invested in the Generous Churches Leadership Community, and how he hopes other churches will do the same.
Developing Bold Faith in Your Congregation
Posted on 2/14/2013 by Warren Bird
Amazing Faith was a hard book for me to put down. I read every page. It's the kind of book that leaders and members alike can profit from.
The author, Wilfredo "Pastor Choco" de Jesus, leads an amazing church, and he has captured its heartbeat through a powerful series of stories. The narrative weaves back and forth between a heart-touching story of life change at the church and a parallel example or teaching in Scripture, both told in a compelling way. By reading the book, my faith was encouraged and stretched, but I also came to understand how a church of 150 people became the largest-attendance church today in the ######## of God, both English and Spanish. Combining all campuses, plus the churches they've planted over the last 10 years, New Life Covenant touches about 14,000 people each weekend.
Recent Tweets I Don’t Want You To Miss!
Posted on 1/31/2013 by Warren Bird
Please take a quick skim of these recent tweets (@warrenbird), just in case you missed any that you’d find helpful.
Story Based Training for Courageous Coaching
Posted on 1/25/2013 by Warren Bird
I recently finished a small press book that deserves a national scale hearing.
Advance Articles That Reached The Top
Posted on 1/25/2013 by Warren Bird
People are often curious what articles were most read. Here's the tally,
in ranked order, from articles with great church resources to articles
with helpful statistics and trends. See which articles made the top of our
list in 2012.
Top Rated Blogs of 2012
Posted on 1/23/2013 by Warren Bird
Did you miss our best blogs from 2012? Here is a list of the 10 most read
blogs of 2012, presented in ranked order.
The Rise of English-Friendly Hispanic Churches
Posted on 1/9/2013 by Warren Bird
An important shift is happening among churches ministering to Hispanic Americans: more and more are becoming English dominant, according to a recent major article published by Huffington Post.
"They have become very English-oriented in some ways, but they didn't lose their Spanish side,” the article quotes one researcher as observing, as the article highlights several churches including Chicago's New Life Covenant Church, a Spanish-speaking Pentecostal congregation that had 125 members a dozen years ago when it's name was, Templo Cristiano Palestina. Today it draws over 5,000 people weekly among English and Spanish congregations. In reaching out to English-speaking Hispanics, it started offering programs such as school tutoring, and branched out to more established suburbs where native-born Hispanics could be found.”
Ways to Strengthen Your Church Leadership Team
Posted on 12/21/2012 by Warren Bird
Just released: Searching for Strong Senior Leadership Teams: What 145 Church Teams Told Us.
Searching for Strong Senior Leadership Teams: What 145 Church Teams Told Us (pdf)
By Warren Bird and Ryan Hartwig published on 12/19/2012
Searching for Strong Senior Leadership Teams: What 145 Church Teams Told Us (ePub)
By Warren Bird and Ryan Hartwig published on 12/19/2012
Recent Tweets I Don’t Want You To Miss!
Posted on 12/12/2012 by Warren Bird
Twitter feeds move so quickly that information is often buried before we get a chance to see it. So, here are some of my most recent tweets (@warrenbird), just in case you missed any that you’d find helpful.
Are Churches Likely to Meet Budget This Year?
Posted on 10/18/2012 by Warren Bird
We suspect you’re curious about questions like …
Is There an Optimum Worship Service Time?
Posted on 9/21/2012 by Warren Bird
Identifying an "optimum" worship service time is a frequent discussion point among church leaders as they plan. Or as one pastor recently wrote me, triggering this blog, "We currently have 9:00 and 10:45 start times on Sunday mornings, but we desperately need to move people to the earlier service for parking issues."
More than 100 Million Unchurched in the United States?
Posted on 9/19/2012 by Warren Bird
The book I co-authored with Tom Clegg, Missing in America, makes the following claim on page 175:
According to the latest research, 1 out of every 3 adults (33%) in America is unchurched. This means they haven’t attended a religious service of any type during the past 6 months. This represents approximately 73 million adults, plus roughly 27 million teens and children for a total of 100 million Americans.... [click blog title to continue]
2012 Large Church Salary Report Research Trends from Leadership Network (pdf)
By Warren Bird published on 8/31/2012
2012 Large Church Salary Report Research Trends from Leadership Network (ePub)
By Warren Bird published on 8/31/2012
Big News- Multisite Churches now Number More than 5,000
Posted on 8/22/2012 by Warren Bird
The new official statistic is that there are more than 5,000 multisite churches in North America. That’s more than 5,000 different churches, each of which has two or more different geographic campuses – one church in two or more locations. This finding was extrapolated from a national survey of churches of all sizes, and validated by Leadership Network’s constantly growing database of multisite churches.
That Book Inside You May Have Global Impact
Posted on 6/26/2012 by Warren Bird
Hardly a day goes by that I don’t get an inquiry from someone who’s seen a book I’ve co-authored and says, “I want to write a book. Help!”
The Best of Online Resources from Todd Rhoades
Posted on 6/21/2012 by Warren Bird
How do you sort through the zillions of available Internet resources to find the best and most relevant to your ministry?
Recent Tweets I Don’t Want You To Miss!
Posted on 6/18/2012 by Warren Bird
Please take a quick skim of these recent tweets (@warrenbird), just in case you missed any that you’d find helpful.
How Many Megachurches?
Posted on 5/22/2012 by Warren Bird
Across the world, there are almost 5 million congregations (worship centers) – specifically, 4,738,000 churches according to the Center for the Study of Global Christianity’s “Status for Global Mission – 2012” (line 42). In some countries, especially those where Christianity is all but illegal, these gatherings of Christians are almost exclusively house churches in form. Only in some areas are Christians allowed join the public square with known and established places to gather. Thus for better or for worse, only in some countries are large public churches free to develop.
Megachurch Books?
Posted on 5/17/2012 by Warren Bird
The best way to learn about megachurches is to participate in a worship service in person, or perhaps online as many offer internet campuses. (Megachurches are congregations with weekly worship attendance of 2,000 and more including children.)
Biggest Megachurch Sanctuaries?
Posted on 5/15/2012 by Warren Bird
If you do an internet search for “biggest churches” or similar, you will find lots of websites listed. The vast majority deal with facilities, not people. They track the most square footage, the most acreage, the tallest buildings, the highest steeples, the costliest construction, the longest times from groundbreaking to final completion, and the like. Some record seating or standing capacity.
Megachurch Languages?
Posted on 5/11/2012 by Warren Bird
Megachurches are not a creation of the United States. There are far more megachurches (defined as 2,000 or more in weekend worship attendance) outside North America than inside it, as my global megachurches page shows. . . .
Youngest Megachurch Pastor?
Posted on 5/8/2012 by Warren Bird
For U.S. churches with 2,000 and more attenders – commonly known as megachurches – the typical senior pastor is age 51. That average almost obscures the amazingly wide range from youngest to oldest....
Twitter Highlight Reel
Posted on 5/7/2012 by Warren Bird
In case you missed these, here are some great articles I shared in recent days on my @warrenbird Twitter account:
World’s First Megachurch?
Posted on 5/4/2012 by Warren Bird
At Easter, Christmas and other big days when church attendances surge, newspapers like to raise the question of which churches are the biggest. Many also try to name which church was the first megachurch – churches drawing 2,000 or more adults and children in worship on a typical weekend.
If You Missed DOING MORE WITH LESS Get The Recordings
Posted on 5/2/2012 by Warren Bird
I just spent the last two days being stretched by a conference named “Doing More with Less,” organized by Dr. Stacy Spencer, pastor of New Direction Church, and co-sponsored by Leadership Network. Nine pacesetting pastors gave us both their passion and their very practical advice. It was a stimulating mix of powerful oratory, panel discussion, audience Q&A, and table discussions.
Reviews Coming in for New Book Better Together
Posted on 5/1/2012 by Warren Bird
Last week, the day Better Together came off the press, I was meeting with a pastor who said, “The strangest thing happened yesterday,” and told me of another pastor he had known for years coming to him and asking, “Could we merge with your church?” I pulled out a hot-off-the-press copy of the book and handed it to him. Below is a description of that book from one of the many reviews coming out. Please take a look, because you never know if God has a merger in your future.
Is Your Church’s Leadership Team a True Team?
Posted on 4/12/2012 by Warren Bird
It seems like every church has caught onto the idea that church leadership works best through teams rather than solo players. According to my friend Dr. Ryan T. Hartwig, a practical academic and researcher at Azusa Pacific University, a senior leadership team is:
What More Pastors Say about “The Other 80 Percent”
Posted on 4/12/2012 by Warren Bird
We're getting some amazing feedback from our recent book, The Other 80%: Turning Your Church’s Spectators into Active Disciples. I was moved by this email from one pastor who read it. Here are excerpts of what he said:
Did You Miss These On Twitter?
Posted on 4/10/2012 by Warren Bird
In case you missed these, here are some great articles I shared in the last week on my @warrenbird Twitter account:
