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Revolutionize Your Church's Digital Outreach through a Digital Pastor Cohort with Jay Kranda

Run Free's exclusive cohort for digital discipleship launches in October 2024. Led by Saddleback's Jay Kranda and Run Free's Brooke Domek.

Run Free's Digital Advancement Collective is a game-changing opportunity for forward-thinking church leaders. This six-month, limited availability program is designed to equip ministry teams with the knowledge, skills, and strategies needed to thrive in the digital ministry landscape.

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Sep 24, 2024 Tweet this

Introducing RunFree.Co - Visionary Coaching for Disciple-making Church Leaders

After 24 years of ministry entrepreneurship & church consulting, I started RunFree.Co for pastors who are disciple-making visionaries.

At the core of RunFree's offering to church teams is the "Pivvot Process"– a strategic season of staff coaching, ministry design, and visionary planning that delivers the best disciple-making playbook of a lifetime. Stop the chase for church attendees, and let's Run Free into what Jesus started.

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Sep 9, 2024 Tweet this

The Destiny Chapters

Part 6 of the Younique Book covers Bucket List, Ultimate Contribution and the Spiritual Practice of Meditating on Death

Thank you for coming by the blog to get the free download called, The Destiny Chapters, which is part 6 of my book entitled, Younique: Designing the Life God Dreamed for You.

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Oct 2, 2023 Tweet this

Download the FREE Vision Frame Cheat Sheet

The best definitions and reminders after 20 years of church vision consulting

The Vision Frame is a celebrated visionary leadership tool that to ask and answer the five irreducible questions of leadership. The use of the tool is dedicated to the church and Jesus disciple-making mission.

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Aug 30, 2023 Tweet this

A Life Update About My Restoration Journey

How God is So Good in the Midst of our Greatest Failures

The most recent update is that my restoration journey was completed on May 12, 2023. The team met in Houston for a day of work which included in depth reviews, prayer, and accountability with the team. The team made the Currently, I am on an extended visit to Chile with Romy (and our young daughter, Poema) where she grew up in Santiago. We will return to Houston at the end of July. I am resting and exercising better than I What does the future hold for me? For now I’ll continue full time cultivating heart-time with Jesus and family as I work on my restoration. I am learning and reengaging the ready embrace of my Savior. As Dane Ortlund reflects, The members of the restoration team listed below make up one of two teams helping me at this time. There is also a "friendship team" of close friends and pastors who have known me as far back as college and [...]

Jul 25, 2022 Tweet this

Unpublished: Church Growth Hoaxes that Demotivate the Small Church Pastor

The gritty bonus content that didn’t get published in the Future Church book

Some of the hardest working, most devoted pastors work in the smallest churches in terms of attendance. If you’re a small church pastor, you probably feel more alone, more tired, and (at times) more frustrated than pastors of churches 10 times yours in attendance. And that was before the COVID disruption.

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Nov 3, 2021 Tweet this

Join Us at the Future Church Collective

January 5-7, 2022 in Atlanta

Why attend the Future Church Collective? Because you know that business as usual won’t suffice. You have dreams for ministry and people are waiting for you to turn those dreams into action. You will be inspired, challenged, and supported as you and your team move into 2022 and beyond.

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Oct 29, 2021 Tweet this

Moving Beyond First Impressions to Lasting Transformation

It’s imperative for every church to both optimize their first impressions and be extremely clear about what they’re inviting people to engage with. And the pervading sense of uncertainty about the future that I hear from pastors these days clouds every conversation about these issues.

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Oct 13, 2021 Tweet this

Reframing the Enneagram: Moving from Personality Categories to Spiritual Habits

The Enneagram isn’t just another tool to help people understand themselves and those around them. As a matter of fact, the Enneagram was originally used as a tool to guide spiritual discipleship.

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Sep 21, 2021 Tweet this

What To Do with a Bad Ministry Name

When your name is working against building awareness

The final reason to change your church's name is when your current name is working against building awareness.

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Apr 13, 2021 Tweet this

On Shortening Your Church Name: The Branding Story of Metropolitan Baptist

When shortening your name reflects common understanding and common usage

The fourth reason to change your church's name is when a name streamlines communication by shortening or modifying to reflect common usage.

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Apr 8, 2021 Tweet this

The Name Change Stories of Grace Point and Christ Fellowship

When your church goes through significant changes

The third strategic reason for a name change is when the new name re-clarifies a church’s identity during a relaunch, an organizational rite of passage, or a new strategic direction. In this post, I explore a few examples of this.

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Apr 5, 2021 Tweet this