I’m excited to have this opportunity to introduce to you 12 different packages and new programs that LifeTogether is rolling out. I’m guessing that in at least one of these brief descriptions you’ll find a good next step for your church.

1. New Year’s Vision 2020 Campaign/Fall Campaign

You choose the focus and start time, and LifeTogether will help you develop a campaign that unifies your church and sparks in your congregation a renewed passion for their faith. It’s not too late to develop a Fall 2019 campaign even if you’ve never done a campaign before. In fact, most churches we work with take a sermon series from the archives and hand it over to us. After all, the church staff is busy, and the pastor’s dance card is full. So we make the campaign happen for them: we revitalize the teaching, film a video series, find testimonials from church members, and/or create a beautiful curriculum for small groups. And don’t miss out on the opportunity to present a 20/20 vision for your church as we start the year 2020. This is a one-time-only event that marks not only a new year but a new decade! Use this moment to reflect on what God has done in your church’s life in the past ten years and to present the vision He has given you for the next ten. The start of the year 2020 is a killer time to have a churchwide campaign.

2. Starter Campaign + Sustainer  Series Package

It happens because people are people…. A lot of churches do campaigns, fire up the members, and launch more small groups than they expected—and after a while the leaders realize the church has  lost momentum. We at LifeTogether have a breakthrough way of addressing this common situation. We work with you to produce major churchwide starter campaign in multiple formats, some very creative, some very simple, and all of them effective, including a video shoot at your place or ours, here in Southern California. We offer leader training and often incorporate testimonies from your own church members in whatever we do for you. After this campaign we then produce the perfect follow-up: a sustainer series. We add a little consulting to help you really maximize the impact of your campaign. We want you not just to start strong, but also to continue strong!

3. Partnership Options: Train the Trainer, 50/50 &  Executive Producer Package

Whether start-to-finish guidance and production from LifeTogether, or a partnership that has us doing some fine-tuning, or training in video production or small-group leadership for staff and volunteers—whatever your church needs and whatever fits your budget, LifeTogether will make it happen.

1. Our Executive Producer Package is full-service: we come to you for pregame planning, on game day we produce the videos at your site, and then we take care of the post-production for you.
2. Perhaps you have an amazing video staff and the latest equipment, but you’re not getting the cinematic quality you’re after. Or maybe you’d like a better design for a popular home-grown curriculum. In a 50/50 Team Production Package, we share the load. We can step in with graphics, designers, writers, videographers, or directors and help with whatever needs to be done.
3. In this very popular Train the Trainer package, LifeTogether trains church leaders—especially small-group leaders but also the video production team—to be able to train others. For either six or twelve months, we train your leaders and then offer support as the newly trained trainers train others. It’s gratifying for everyone involved. 

4.   Small-Group University

This popular program is exactly what its name says:  we offer basic, intermediate, and advanced training classes for small-group leaders.  We’ve developed a template that can be customized to your people and your needs. After years of doing this, we have version 1.0 for you to load to a teleprompter and get started. Using set curriculum and/or role playing , you can develop new small-group leaders and sharpen the skills of your experienced ones. A comfortable and confident leader can make all the difference in your people’s small-group experiences. Join us for our free webinar this Wednesday to discuss more.

5.   Publishing Digital  Media and Small-Group Curriculum

Is this the year you want to build your video library? Help church members get connected? Or reignite excitement about small groups? We’d love to come alongside you and produce three, four, five, or even six video series for you in the next twelve months. You’ll be able to spark and sustain spiritual growth in your people, strengthen their relationship with Jesus and one another, and enable them to be disciplers. A video series is an effective way to enable further conversation about the weekend sermon. Send us video or transcripts of a weekend series, and we’ll prepare a custom curriculum and script for video. You know your church, its vision, and its heart, so you decide the topics and the number of series you want to do—and we’ll make it happen!

6.   Mission, Vision, and Values Series

Every church is unique in its expression of its mission, vision, and values. Once set forth by the church leaders, these essentials are important for members to not lose sight of and for newcomers who want to get to know your church. We could do a week on each aspect of your church’s purpose or on one of your key values. Or we could do a multiple-week series on a new direction the church is taking. LifeTogether can take sermons you’ve preached on your church’s mission, vision, and values, turn them into a video scripts, and develop a small-group curriculum. Or you could take the templates we have for sermons, curriculum, and video scripts, plug in your specifics, and be good to go. We can customize the package by featuring your church’s pastors, people, testimonies, and campus in the full-color study guide. You know the breadth and capacity of your team, so you know how LifeTogether can best help, whether it’s video, writing, design, layout, or strategy. Whatever you need and want, let’s make this happen!  Click here to see more.

7. Next Step Program

So what’s the next step for your congregation? What gap in biblical knowledge do you want to address? What call to action is most important in this season? What messages would help them get more involved in mission work in local communities? Your church’s Next Step may be to better connect with one another or with nonbelievers. Maybe it’s time to motivate your people to go out and share more openly the gospel message. You might focus on spiritual disciplines or Bible study how-tos to prompt growth. You might be passionate about Jesus coming as a servant and want to help congregants marvel at that choice and adopt the attitude of a servant so they can discover the joy of serving. Or maybe it’s time to review what worship is all about. Whatever your next step, we can help you develop a small-group curriculum or an exciting Conversation Series, a new approach to church that features interaction and discussion between the pastor and those in attendance. We’d love to help you take your Next Step! Join us for our free webinar this Wednesday to discuss more.

Almost every pastor has a book—or five—in him. In this publishing package, LifeTogether can help you create your first or your next book. We no longer offer just consulting. We’ve developed a process and a team to help your book get into print. The first step is to bring you out to California. We’ll hang out for a day, pull out your life message, and put together a general outline that ideally integrates sermons you’ve preached. We have professional designers, writers, and editors to help you bring your book to life. And once we publish it, we resell it to other churches in our 25,000-church network. Those sales can help you recoup some of the costs. We only have a few more spots on our dance card if you want to kick off the new year with a new book—but a new book will generate excitement at your church any time of the year!  Click here to see more.

9.   Stewardship/Capital Campaign

Let us help you talk about the sometimes-hard-to-talk-about issues of stewardship, tithing, and capital campaigns. We can use messages you’ve already written—or help you develop new ones—as the basis for videos and small-group curriculum. Finances and stewardship continues to be one of the most popular subjects in top churches in America even when the video series stretches over an 18- to 24-month period . Generate excitement about goals, a sense of community, and a greater passion for God’s work through a Stewardship/Capital Campaign series. Whatever the size of your church, we’re here to help. Click here to see more.

10.   Sermon Curator Program

You’ve been preaching for decades. So of course it can be hard to come up with new approaches to the material you want to cover—and just how many ways can you talk about Easter or Christmas? Other times you need some ideas as you consider what content to address over the next six, 12, or 18 months. LifeTogether has hundreds of sermons that you can mine. You will also benefit from all that we have learned from hundreds of the country’s largest and fastest growing churches about what they’re preaching, when they’re preaching it, and why they’re preaching it.   Click here to see more.

11.   Church Innovations

After working with small groups for more than twenty years, we are now broadening our offerings so we can help more churches in more ways. Right now we have seven core categories and 18 elective topics. We truly do have something for everybody—and that includes you! Click here to see more.

12.   Content Champion

Let us come alongside you and help you look back at your sermon library and assess what you could repurpose for an upcoming sermon series, what you might turn into a small-group curriculum, what might become that book you’ve considered writing, and what material could become digital assets for social media, daily email devotions, and countless other options. We want to help pastors like you look backward to see what you can leverage from your years of ministry. What you produce may actually serve as a legacy that honors God and furthers His kingdom. Click here to see more.

The LifeTogether team would love to learn which of these twelve offerings you’d like to pursue initially and how we can help you make that happen.  Our partnership might involve a visit to your church or your visit to SoCal. Let’s start with a conference call between your team and ours to see which one, or two, or three offerings we might work on together.

Thanks for taking the time to read this newsletter and get to know LifeTogether better! We look forward to working with you!

Let’s continue the conversation this Wednesday during our free webinar.

If you have any questions about the topics above, please join us for a 30 minute call or request a private, no obligation conversation with our team. Click here to register.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Better Together,
Brett Eastman
brett@lifetogether.com