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Bible Adventure: Designed for Small Groups
Children need positive one-on-one personal interactions like the ones they can get in a small group setting. The Bible App for Kids Curriculum is designed to facilitate small group interactions from the beginning to the end of each experience. Help your small group leaders learn how to lead their g...
Church Planting
Church Planting: Be a Healthy Leader
The work of planting a church can take a toll on you and your family. Being a healthy leader is an important part of having a healthy church. These videos will help make sure you are always thinking about personal growth as a leader and how to take care of yourself physically, spiritually...
Leadership
Is Anyone Listening?
With social media, many people express what’s going on inside their hearts with the same level of transparency as sharing what they had for lunch. “Out too late partying last night = overslept my alarm this morning. Guess I’ll be having ‘car trouble’ again.” “Yay, lunch! It’s burger & fries day!!...
Staff Development
The Best Fit: How We Hire
Our thorough recruitment process is intentionally designed to help prevent the people we hire from later being fired. When employees not only work for your organization, but they also worship at your church, it's important to...
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Message Support: The Gift
Series Length: 3 Weeks, with Week 3 serving as this year’s Christmas message. (not necessarily in this order) Week 1: Gold Week 2: Frankincense Week 3: Myrrh Description: A gift tells a story. We treasure hand-picked gifts from those we love. They’re valuable and important becaus...
Giving & Finance
Life.Church Core Giving and Generosity Beliefs
Core Beliefs The following are Core Beliefs around giving and generosity at Life.Church. However, we encourage you to prayerfully identify and define your own core beliefs that will govern conversations around generosity at your church. God owns it all, and He provides everything we need to...
Leadership
3 Values that Lead to Evangelism
“How do I inspire my church to be involved in evangelism?” At Alpha , that’s the one question we most often hear from church leaders—and it’s an important one for a couple of reasons. First, if we mobilize our whole congregation to engage with their community, the message of Jesus will find its w...
Leadership
Leading Your Church Out of Crisis
Pastors, if the way you're leading your church today is similar to your pre-pandemic plan, you probably have a bad plan. Your church has been through two years of extreme trauma. We’ve had countless tragic deaths, political division, ongoing racial tension, economic inconsistencies,...
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Youth
Life Revealed Training
Life Revealed is a 9 part series that journeys through the narrative of Luke and Acts, provokes curiosity around the person of Jesus, and creates an accessible way for young people to read and understand scripture. View these trainings as a tool to help prepare your staff and your leaders before la...
Online Ministry
Church Online Is Messy
Our Church Online experiences are about more than just watching a sermon. Church Online is about meeting people right where they are, no matter where in the world they are. It's about relationship, community, prayer, and hope. Whenever we create a ministry, outreach, or program, we focus on more th...
Messages
Message Support: Relational Vampires
There are some people who seem to suck the life out of us. Some are endlessly needy; others complain. Some you can’t trust because they’re manipulative or hypocritical. We know we’re supposed to love them, but honestly, sometimes it’s just plain difficult. In this series, we’ll be putting a name to...
Leadership
Where Do We Grow from Here
No matter the size, age or denomination of our churches, there’s one question we should all be asking. It’s simple yet significant. It applies to your church as a whole, but also individual ministries. It compels you to develop vision and strategy, and keeps you outwardly focused. The answer isn...
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...
Leadership
Does the Size of Your Church Matter? (Part 1)
Why do some people go to small churches? Why do others go to large churches? This is certainly an oversimplification, but bear with me. People tend to stay at small churches because they are: 1) Needed. Each week, someone is counting on them to pass out the red attendance folders,...
Leadership
Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Giving and Receiving Feedback, Part 1
Without a doubt, one of the most important tools to develop in your organization is a consistent culture of feedback. Many of us want to know when we are doing something right, but we might also fear or avoid hearing feedback when we’re not. What’s interesting is that most people don’t know ho...