“Leadership is lonely.” I have believed this statement for years. As a young leader, I listened to many mature & godly leaders discuss how to be faithful in ministry. Why? Because I wanted to learn from them.

What if you could recruit volunteers all year long? In this episode, we break down our recruiting strategy for recruiting that never stops

Brian is the NextGen Pastor of Battle Creek Church in Broken Arrow OK. Brian leads a multi-site student and kids ministry that reaches thousands of kids and students every week.

Essentially, these three responsibilities create the role description for an SGL coach. So, if you are making a description on paper (which I highly suggest you do), then start with these three core objectives:

The coaching ministry we created totally imploded at first. But as we learned, we were able to build a healthy coaching ministry that scaled our impact. So today, I want to share a little about what we learned and help you scale your volunteer training and leadership through volunteer coaches.

Every ministry trains its volunteers. But does it work? Most leaders conduct volunteer training events at the beginning of the semester and then fool themselves into thinking that this will effectively train volunteers to do the ministry's work.

A successful August re-launch begins in April. One thing all strategic pastors do is focus on the highly important when it's not urgent to be done.

A lot of ministries can't afford TrainedUp, Ministry Grid, or Kajabi. Plus, most ministries do not have a videographer to shoot and edit if they could. However, hosting your volunteer training videos is essential to creating a scalable training system for your ministry. In this week's newsletter, we want to share with you how to make and host online volunteer training courses almost entirely for free.

Jon is the Youth Pastor of @ElevationChurch in Charlotte, NC, and is an expert in the intersection of youth ministry and online gaming. In this episode, @landoncreynolds interviews Jon on how @elevationyth trainings volunteers in multiples states and nations, their process for building great volunteer culture, and the systems that sustain a healthy ministry.

I recently got the opportunity to attend the Altar's Conference in NYC. As a Southern Baptist at heart, I was interested to see what I was walking into. Needless to say, I was blown away.

Noah is the Lead Pastor of @WayChurchTN Nashville, TN, and the author of Holy Habits. In this episode, @landoncreynolds interviews Noah on his system for creating. Content for sermons and social media, the do's and don'ts of planting Way Church Nashville, his rise to becoming a Christian influence, and his newest book, Holy Habits.

I am thoroughly disrupted.

Christian leaders talk a lot about building a "rule of life." But few people share a practical how-to guide for building yours.

You need to re-learn your lessons.

Every church leader desires to lead beyond themselves. But if we want to lead beyond ourselves, we must first learn to lead ourselves.

What decision did you make that had a negative impact on your life in 2023?

I bet the student ministry at your church has a retreat. But do you?

What decision did you make that had a MASSIVE positive impact on your life in 2023?

Do you have a self-leadership system?If there is one thing I’ve had to learn the hard way, it is that an unhealthy leader cannot lead a healthy ministry.

Healthy systems create healthy leaders. What do unhealthy systems create? In this episode, I sat down with SSM founder Landon Reynolds and had an open and honest conversation about the current leadership-producing system in the church today. Are we creating healthy leaders? Is the current system setting up young pastors to fail? If so, how do we escape that system and protect the next generation of young pastors and leaders? If you are ready to end the cycle of unhealthy leadership, then this episode is for you!