Church Publishing Program

Have you ever wondered what might happen at your church if you could produce your own study guide for a sermon series or a video curriculum for small groups? You’ve come to the right place! LifeTogether can make that happen!

Over the last 25 years, I’ve been producing books, study guides, and video curriculum with some of the largest and fastest-growing churches in the country. I even had the privilege of developing the first video curriculum and 40-day campaign for Rick Warren at Saddleback Church.

Since then, advancements in technology and media have made publishing a real possibility for the local church. You yourself can leverage your content like never before for an impact exponentially greater than you might imagine.

LifeTogether wants to help you discover more and better ways to repurpose past sermon series, rethink future series, and renew your vision for the reach your church could have.

Our Church Publishing program offers you the best practices, breakthrough innovations, and proven models.

Let’s connect today!

Founder and President, LifeTogether Ministries

Currently, a church will pick one of the major consulting tracks and a handful of electives (outlined below) that they believe meets their current needs. After an initial assessment, we will develop a master calendar and strategic plan to systematically address these needs. We will then begin partnering through a series of dynamic and intentional conversations and settings, including online learning.

The combination of selected custom tracks, strategically hand-picked electives, and the assessment provides the foundation for our conversations, training, and engagement over the course of six months to a year with us. This unique model I have developed engages a variety of levels of your church leadership, including senior pastor, church leadership team, and key ministry leaders.

CUSTOMIZED CONSULTING TRACKS

The following is a list of major ministry tracks that the largest and fastest growing churches experienced breakthroughs, developed working models, and developed greater expertise in order to go to the next level. My experience is that most churches will need to renew their systems, strategies and staffing around these major categories numerous times over the years because of shift in culture, emerging innovations, staff changes and church growth.

For many, selecting the major track may be clear right away but for others this will take some time and may in fact not be totally clear until after the assessment visit. You also have a list of over 20 Electives to choose from that will help to fill out your dance card and address those hot topics not covered in your track.

Either way, this can be refined and dynamically updated based on your emerging real and felt needs over time. This really serves as a backbone or starting point for our ongoing discussions. And just in case you still are not clear you can select the “Build Your Own” track where we can customize the entire year around your changing priorities.

Choose from the main tracks below based on your needs.

1. Christian Book Publishing

Life Message
Values Series
Passage of the Bible or Biblical Character

2. Annual Campaign Publishing

Capital Campaigns, Mission, Vision & Values, New Members, Stewardship, etc.
Professionally Produced Curriculum & Video

3. Small Group Curriculum

4. Online Service Publishing

5. Small Group Media Publishing

6. Life-Change Stories

7. Discipleship Resource Publishing

8. Sermon Publishing

9. Volunteer Training Publishing

10. Daily Devotional Publishing

11. Church Newsletter Publishing

12. Content Publishing

13. Weekend Curriculum Publishing

ELECTIVES

In addition, we have come up with dozens of Elective topics that will sharpen your saw and strengthen your ministries impact based on the lessons learned in the larger and faster growing churches in the country.

Go Deeper and Wider With Online Experience & Audience Participation

Produce In-Home Video Curriculum & Alignment Campaigns With Your Team

Catalyze Community with Breakthrough Weekend Alignment Strategies

Discover Proven Models for recruiting & developing unlimited leaders

Revolutionary media & technology breakthroughs for your service

Produce Engaging Video Productions by encouraging member participation

Cutting-Edge Tools and Resources to bring church to your community

Develop Events & Activities to Mobilize and Motivate More Volunteers

Learn fresh new approaches, next generation small group ministry

Determining growth engines, key performance drivers & catalysts

New ideas, topics, & outlines: Preaching strategies to sharpen your impact

The generosity factor: Breakthrough ways to increase your giving

Recruit, train and develop high-capacity leaders and volunteers

Repurpose Past Content to Professionally Produce Books and Resources

Weekend & Next-Step Assimilation Strategies for Stronger Connections

Refine & Multiply Off-Site venues with new micro/macro site strategies

Leverage your life, leadership, legacy for the kingdom

Seeker to Leader: Create a successful discipleship pathway

Maximizing holiday services: Christmas, Easter and beyond

“Lifetogether Coaching has proven to be the single most effective tool for attacking my ministry goals.”

Phil Amaya, Senior Pastor

PROGRAM FEATURES:

Church Ministry Assessment

Establish the initial and ongoing relationship with key staff
Complete an initial comprehensive assessment and ongoing evaluation
Create the ministry plan, objectives and a master calendar

On-Campus Visits (when available)

Establish the initial and ongoing relationship with key staff
Complete an initial comprehensive assessment and ongoing evaluation
Determine and develop the combined customized tracks & electives
Create the ministry plan, objectives and a master calendar

Virtual Team Meetings

Designed to address strategic topics selected from the Top 100 learnings
Serve as a review of the progress and renewal of next-step plans
Targeting strategic leadership and ministry teams

Online Video Coaching Sessions

Take advantage of on-line training sessions designed by topic
Available at your convenience to choose sessions based on individual or ministry needs
Wide variety of coaching topics developed over years of working with the largest and fastest growing churches

One-On-One Coaching Calls

Calls for the senior pastor and team leaders
Master schedule will be developed to help determine which individuals based off of content and conversation
Includes regular and infrequent sessions with staff members, ministry team leaders, and key volunteers
Sessions serve as a deeper dive on strategic topics plus accountability and preparation for team meetings

Online Toolbox

Training videos for senior pastors and staff
Exclusive Top 100 articles and downloads
Live case studies from the leading churches
Teaching materials and session downloads
Webinars with Brett and faculty of Pastors
Small group and volunteer training materials

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What Leading Pastors are Saying

Gene Appel

Eastside Christian Church

“Lifetogether is not just the name of an organization. It’s what they do. Brett Eastman and their team have come alongside us to produce better leaders, better polished curriculum, better groups, and maybe best of all, lots more groups. We are grateful for their partnership.”

Dale Oquist

Peoples Church

“I am a big fan of Brett Eastman and Lifetogether because he has helped me as the pastor of a large church to connect with our faith family in deep and significant ways. He has made the difficult possible and assisted our quest to create an intimate culture in our church.”

Rick Warren

Saddleback Church

“In the dream-it-up phase of a project – where you imagine the possibilities, consider the alternatives, and produce a scenario for communicating your message in a compelling way – I’ve never met anyone who can match Brett’s genius in this task.”

Greg Surratt

Seacoast Church

“It’s been a joy to work with Brett and the Lifetogether team. Not only have we increased our small group engagement, we have learned some principles that will help us over the long haul. As a coach, Brett challenged me to go further than I thought I could as it relates to recording small group curriculum. They made a challenging process fun. I highly recommend partnering with them in your ministry.”

Wayne Cordeiro

New Hope Oahu

“Brett’s ministry, heart and skills made it possible for us to quadruple our small group involvement. He is a competent and hands-on coach with the sensitivity necessary to make it all come together.”

Tim Harlow

Parkview Christian Church

“We always felt bad about the low numbers of people we had connected in groups. But we had the excuse of rapid growth and never thought it was possible to keep up. Until Lifetogether. Now we can almost claim the ridiculous statement that we have as many people connected in groups as we do in weekend attendance. It never would have been possible without my friends at Lifetogether.”