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Come out of Easter stronger than ever!
I hope your church is gearing up for your best Easter ever--a time of celebration, a time of renewed connection to God, and a time when more people than ever before are visiting your church. IT'S NOT TOO LATE! We're just a few days away, but it's not too late to...
How to Produce Your Own In-House 40 Day Campaign this Year
Church members love studying with resources created by their own church and leadership team. Additionally, creating your own studies can reinforce your theological framework, your vision and values, and your culture. That's why we work with churches around the country...
6 step process to connect your congregation this Christmas!
Here’s a strategy to consider not just addressing the 20% of those that are attending the holiday services but still challenge the 80% of the rest of the congregation to a simple and strategic next step opportunity.
Proven ways to prepare, launch and get exponential results with your capital campaign
This past year we were able to play a small but strategic role in helping secure over $100 million dollars in between capital campaign commitments and increases in the weekly tithes and offerings in churches all around the country. For years we evaluated the...
A Dozen Ways We Are Better Together
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...
17 Proven Connection Strategies for your Post-Easter Season
It's been a week since Easter Sunday, can you believe it? We know that the last several months have been hectic (to say the least), you have endured some sleepless nights (no doubt), and poured your heart and soul out service after service, all in preparation for the...
Getting Ready for Your Fall Campaigns
After producing the “Purpose Driven Life” video series for Rick Warren, we discovered that aligning with his weekend teaching series was a really big idea. There is a powerful impact in aligning and developing curriculum in order to catalyze your community into...
Conversation Strategy
Lifetogether has partnered with over 500 of the largest and fastest growing churches across the nation. Emerging from our partnerships, we are launching a brand new model of curriculum and strategies for video-driven experiences in small groups. We’ve learned the...
Why the Town Hall Production is a Must-Have for Any Church
Town Hall teaching is one of our exciting breakthroughs and most popular teaching formats. Above is a video medley of some of our exciting partnerships that have utilized the innovative Town Hall format. Pastors thrive on the energy and engagement of their...
75% of Growing Churches Will Teach a Sermon Series on 1 or More of These 4 Topics This Year
If you're like most of the churches in America, you probably have plans to preach a topical series over the next 12 to 24 months on one or more of these topics: The...
10 Proven Strategies to Increase the Giving, Generosity, and Stewardship in your Church
The First Question is WHY Here are a few major reasons we found: With a major decline in weekend attendance, many churches feel the need to more fully engage their faithful attenders in financial stewardship, giving and tithing. The impact of declining attendance...
Our Partnerships with 40 of Outreach Magazine’s Top 100 Largest & Fastest-Growing Churches
Over the years at Lifetogether, we have either published video curriculum, consulted on the small group ministry and/or produced fully-custom alignment campaigns for over 500 growing churches. Below is a list of 40 of the churches we have worked with from Outreach...
Case Study with Greg Surratt at Seacoast Church – “I See a Church”
We partnered with Seacoast for a year and helped them produce four complete full-color curriculum and video-based series that aligned with the weekend services. For two we did complete production and for the other two we coached them on how to do it themselves in a...
Case Study with Max Lucado & Randy Frazee at Oak Hills Church – “Make Room For Neighbors”
I first met Randy Frazee when he was the senior pastor at Pantego Bible Church in Texas and discovered our shared desire to see connection and community in the Body of Christ. We stayed in touch over the years and when he joined the staff at Oak Hills Church, we...
Case Study with Ray Johnston at Bayside – “Born For This”
A SMALL GROUP REVOLUTION The church went from 400 groups to more than 1,700 groups and 2,000 hosts! Gil Steiglitz, small groups Pastor at Bayside, says working with Lifetogether helped Bayside see the critical steps needed to implement a strong small groups program...
10 Innovations in Growing Churches Around the Country
Over the last twenty years, we've had the privilege of working with hundreds of the largest and fastest-growing churches in the country, including 50 of the top 100 listed in Outreach Magazine's annual list. This year as we...
Come to sunny California to produce your first video series!
We invite you out to the Lifetogether office in California to produce your very first video curriculum. The curriculum would be based off a weekend alignment series or maybe a past or future sermon series that you felt would be most influential. A featured benefit is...
How We Learned to Film Live Worship
Over the last twenty years, Lifetogether has produced more than 500 award-winning video and print curriculum packages, for churches of every size, denomination, and from every part of the country. After more than two decades of working with churches to produce...
How to Produce 3 Professionally Published Video Curriculum in a Day
As you well know, our vision here at Lifetogether is to champion a new way of doing church by leveraging the life and leadership of any senior pastor in any local church to connect their entire congregation into community in order to reach their community for Christ....
The 4 Main Strategies Guaranteed to Connect Your Entire Congregation
Over the last twenty years, we've had the privilege of working with hundreds of the largest and fastest-growing churches in the country, including 50 of the top 100 mega-churches in America. Through my time serving on the senior staff at Willow Creek and...