Amy Jorden is the Executive Lead Pastor at One Church Gloucester and is also responsible for overseeing all the Sunday Services across the One Church Network. Hi Amy, tell us a bit about your role of overseeing Sunday Services. What’s involved in that? What’s your goal for each Sunday Service? What’s the big win? One Church is a multisite church, and one of those locations was a separate church that has joined us, and then since planted a further location. What challenges have you had in bringing Sunday Services together? How important is it that all services are alike? Why? 3 of the church’s ..read more

My guest today is Gianni Gaeta. Gianni Gaeta is the founder and leader of the LIFE Church Austria movement with his wife Angela. Gianni's passion is to encourage people to dream big and to think of the seemingly impossible, and then to take steps to implement this, whether in church planting nationally and internationally or in the field of business, education and politics. I’d love to hear about how you started Life Church. Both you and your wife Angela are not Austrian. You are Italian and Angela is English. How did you find it planting a church in a culture you didn’t grow up in? Life Chur ..read more

My Podcast guest today is Nathan Jorden. Nathan is the Online Pastor at One Church, based in the Southwest of England. Nathan is also one of my very best friends, so it’s great to have Nath on the show today. You’ve just launched One Church’s Online Location. What was the remit you were given for this role? What did you have in terms of resources to start with? Why is online church important? Who have you designed the online location for and why? What’s your current approach to reaching these people online? What are you doing ..read more

My Podcast guest is Jim Tomberlin. Jim is the Chief of Staff at Christ Fellowship in Miami and the multisite specialist for The Unstuck Group.   Hi Jim, your expertise is in Church Multisite. What were the pre-COVID best practices around multisite? If you were to advise a church before COVID, what would have you advised them to do? Now we are in the COVID era, what’s changed? What’s the new advice? What are the initial conditions needed in a church to go multisite? Let’s talk about planting. We used to talk about planting in that 20-30 minute drive time radius from a campus. Has that cha ..read more

Brady Shearer – The New Era of Church   My guest today is Brady Shearer. Brady is the Founder of Nucleus Church & Pro Church Tools. With a large following of 35 thousand people on Instagram, and a huge 116 thousand people on YouTube, Brady is the best person in the world I can think to talk to about church communications. Brady is a great strategist and thinker too, so I know that you’ll enjoy this conversation.   You say in your videos that we’ve just undergone the biggest communications shift in 500 years, and that’s correct. The internet, and mobile devices, in particular, ha ..read more

On 19th July 2021, all restrictions were lifted, and that means that Sunday 25th July becomes the church's Freedom Sunday. However, before you drop all restrictions, there's some things to consider. KEY POINTS Be wary what you celebrate Many people still won't be ready Prepare for the pastoral response ..read more

Church planting isn't easy, and in the post-COVID world, many pastors will feel like they are back into a planting season. So what can we learn to do it more effectively? This week, we're joined by Lisa Daniels, who is the Location Pastor at One Church Podsmead. She gives great insight from her experience of planting, and what she's learned along the way. KEY POINTS 1. Chose sledge hammers not scalpels 2. Plant not placate.  3. Don’t scale too quickly 4. Work out what should be pencil and what should be permanent  5. Sons and daughters of the house 6.  Focus on momentum ..read more

In the life of our church, we know there are some things that are most important. However, they tend to get overtaken by the urgent tasks, or we get bogged down in the detail. in this episode, Chris & Lee talk about the common things that stop us doing the most important things, and what we can do about them. KEY POINTS 1) Getting involved in things that don’t require them 2) Not focusing on the right things 3) Control issues/lack of trust 4) Expectations of a pastor 5) Overly hierarchical structures 6) Inability to say no ..read more

Strategy isn't easy. We often don't know what we don't know, and that means we can fall prey to common mistakes that don't help us get to where we want to go. In this episode, Chris & Lee talk about 6 common mistakes. Membership: www.thinking.church/membership-pre-sale KEY POINTS 1) using last years strategy 2) Confusing mission & vision 3) not thinking about it will be delivered 4) The Field of Dreams mistake  5) using someone else’s strategy 6) waiting for perfection ..read more

Church Mergers have often been thought of as a generally negative thing. We conjure up ideas of large churches eating up congregations, and the number of churches declining. However, if done properly, a church merger can be an exceptionally healthy thing. Jim Tomberlin is the master at helping churches merge in a healthy way and shows us the ways to think through merging churches successfully.  About our Guest Both a multisite and church merger expert, Jim began his multisite journey in the mid 1990s when he was the senior pastor of Woodmen Valley Chapel. In 2000, he went on to pioneer th ..read more