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How Do You Set Goals?

Life.Church Oklahoma City Pastor Chris Beall discusses best practices for setting quality goals and keeping them throughout the year. For more information about Life.Church's tool for setting and tracking goals, visit Develop.me ....

Inside Our Communication Guide

One way we avoid making mistakes on communicative pieces is by referring to our Communication Guide. It contains our mission and core values, a list of "best practices," and practical information regarding style and punctuation specifications. The Communication Guide serves as our standard, clearly...

Online Ministry

Church Online: Ask Yourself 'What If?'

As you're navigating how to do church online, you may be asking a lot of questions. In this video, Brandon Donaldson, senior director of products and partnerships for Open Network, shares the one thing you need to be asking: what if? For more information about the free Church Online Platform:...

Reopening LifeKids: Leader Communication

In a recent Facebook Live , we discussed our process for reopening LifeKids. Our LifeKids pastors talked about how important it is to communicate often with leaders, and discussed some example videos from one of our Life.Church campuses. Use these videos as inspiration as you create your own for...

Creating a Touchless Service

We know many churches are putting together their plans for re-entry into buildings—Life.Church is doing the same. Pastor Sam Roberts who leads Campus Operations for all of our 34 campuses, shares the steps we're taking to begin to meet again at some of our campuses. Special note: This video is...

Bible Adventure: Adventure Bag

It's the little extra touches that make a project special. For the Bible App for Kids Curriculum, our Content Team found this amazing little bag for our host Emily to use in the teaching videos. And the great part is, our leaders in every classroom are using the same bag! If you'd like to use th...

Host Team Volunteer Orientation

At Life.Church, we couldn’t create a welcoming, comfortable environment without the leadership, buy-in, and service of our Host Team volunteers. From the street to the seat, the Host Team creates an environment that removes barriers and allows attenders to experience God. In this video training, n...

Connecting Teams with Digital Signage

Here at Life.Church, we place a strong emphasis on having a vibrant, healthy culture. We don’t want our staff walking around in a fog—we want them equipped and informed. Effectively communicating culture isn’t easy in any organization, but it becomes especially difficult when your locations are...

Obeying God in Spite of the Data

What we've learned: "Data has a seat at the table"—it's something we say a lot here at Life.Church. The distinction is that even though we place a high value on collecting and analyzing data (that's why we created Church Metrics , after all), it still only has one seat at our decision-...

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...

Online Ministry

Digital Watch Party Kit

Digital Watch Party Overview If planning Christmas online is new to your church, you may be encouraging your attenders to join you for an online experience in their home. Watch Parties can provide a sense of community around online content and help attenders feel connected in and to your chu...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: 3 Questions for Anticipatory Leadership

The difference between a good leader and great leader is that great leaders learn to anticipate rather than react. So how can you determine where things are going? Start by asking: 1. What is happening? This is also known as situational awareness . Assess the current state of your orga...

Communication: The Seven Touch Points

Sometimes people ask about our communication strategy for attracting new people to Life.Church and retaining current attenders. Because people are more distracted than ever and going to church less frequently, we want to get them excited about upcoming content so they’ll come (and bring a fr...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Fire Your Inner Boss

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast ! Why do people leave their jobs? The number one reason: they don’t like their bosses. People don’t leave companies—they leave bad bosses! Why? That’s because many bosses don’t understand what it takes to be a leader . Power and...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Giving and Receiving Feedback, Part 2

In last month’s episode , we talked about craving useful feedback and three factors that matter when you’re receiving it. This month, let’s talk about three factors that matter when you’re giving feedback . 1. When you give feedback. For some organizations, the most common time for fe...