Small group ministry & campaign coaching

Small group ministry & campaign coaching

by | Mar 23, 2017 | Programs

When you’re surfing, the first wave is often the smallest – but each wave grows. The same is true for your small group ministry; after the initial church-wide campaign, it’s time to build on your momentum for even greater success.

Lifetogether has provided local churches with state of the art solutions that have proven to connect entire congregations, cultivate reproducing disciples and catalyze unlimited leaders that help reach their community through community. After consulting with over 500 of the largest and faster growing churches around the country, everyone is wanting to connect and grow their people. The only question is, how?

Our second new group coaching program is designed for churches wanting to further leverage the power of community to transform lives by producing video based curriculum that helps to commit 100% of your congregation into community. The content is a more affordable and accessible group edition of our one-on-one on-site consulting program. For a quick glance at what we’ve done in the past, check out the amazing results in one of our partnerships, connecting 2000 groups for Bayside Church, below!

THE WHO

Designed for senior pastors, executive pastors, associate pastors and small group pastors.

THE HOW

  • Design and develop the marketing materials needed to promote your campaign
  • Leverage technology and media to exponentially multiply your impact
  • Connect 75% to 125% of your average adult attendance into off campus small groups
  • Everything needed to create and coach your team to produce 2 different professionally published, video-based small group series
  • Coaching on how to produce your first off-campus worship series with your worship team
  • Coaching on how to produce a “starter” series, “sustainer” series, and a “strengthener” curriculum series
  • Re-purpose your existing sermon series and produce a small group curriculum library serving your groups for years to come

and MANY MORE proven and unique features, so flip through our digital catalog below!

 

In case you missed our short video describing our exciting new coaching programs, we’ve included it again right below!

 

Here at Lifetogether, we’re excited to share with you about our new and innovative coaching programs. Contact us today!

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Small group curriculum production & publishing

Small group curriculum production & publishing

by | Mar 17, 2017 | Programs

While serving on the senior staff at Saddleback Church with Rick Warren and at Willow Creek with Bill Hybels, I learned how to develop strategies that connect entire congregations well north of 75%-100%.

For the last 20 years, we at Lifetogether have produced over 500 video-based small group curriculum for local church pastors, all the major Christian publishers, and leading Christian ministries around the country. Our primary focus is to help a local church produce their first, or maybe more advanced quality, production with the teaching from their senior pastor, testimonies from their members, leadership training by their staff, and a full color 100+ page magazine style curriculum with hundreds of photos from their congregation.

We continue to take those strategies and learn how to apply it exponentially while working with over hundreds of the largest and fastest-growing churches in America. Now, we want to bring those learnings to a program that can help a church of any size, stage and budget.

Starting with Small Group Curriculum Production and Publishing, this program is designed for churches that are looking to do their first in-house church-wide curriculum.  Through each of our sessions, you will gain insight into the different strategies of a successful series as well as the details on how to produce a professionally published video and print curriculum.

THE WHO

Designed for senior pastors, associate and small group pastors, video production and creative teams.

THE HOW

  • Discover dozens of unique video formats and creative settings
  • Learn cost-efficient and time-saving techniques to produce in-house video and print curriculum
  • Produce the 12 core curriculum every congregation needs and wants
  • Produce some of the new, innovative, and breakthrough production formats including the town hall production, home-based shoots, and unique on-location settings
  • How to create a curriculum calendar and weekend alignment strategy
  • How to write curriculum that multiplies disciples, and mobilizes people to service
  • How to stage and shoot a professionally published print and video curriculum
  • How to script, write, and lay out a print curriculum using our proven templates

and MANY MORE proven and unique features, so flip through our digital catalog below!

Here at Lifetogether, we’d love to talk with you about how we might partner together to introduce our new coaching programs. Contact us today!

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7 Steps to Produce Your Own Video and In-house Church-wide Campaign

7 Steps to Produce Your Own Video and In-house Church-wide Campaign

by | Feb 16, 2017 | Main Blog

Not only do church members love studying with resources created by their own church and leadership team, but 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 to help them produce their own in-house campaigns that include teaching, testimonies, and training by the church’s staff and leadership team!

After I served on the senior staff at Willow Creek, championing small groups for about 6 years, I  moved to Saddleback Church where I was responsible for small group leadership development and church-wide assimilation. During that time, I realized the need, like most churches do, to try to recruit and train new small group leaders. One of the greatest discoveries we made, which is now legendary at both Saddleback and in churches all around the country that have launched a 40 day campaign, is that if we produced a video curriculum based off Rick Warren’s teaching, we would be able to recruit new leaders that would grab the DVD, gather a few friends, and start growing together. The strategy was wildly successful and allowed us, in the first year, to recruit hundreds of new leaders and connect thousands of people into off-campus groups.

Over the years, this simple strategy has been used over and over again t o produce over fifteen 40-day like campaigns based off video curriculum with a teaching from Rick Warren, and has moved from 73 groups (back when I started at Saddleback) to over 7,000 small groups and over 60,000 people in off-campus groups.

I always thought that the success with the strategy was more about the “Rick factor,”  given thef act that he wrote The Purpose Driven Lifeand was an unbelievable communicator with a tremendous amount of influence. But after working with hundreds of churches, I’ve come to realize that it was more of the “pastor factor” and that every congregation wants to hear their own pastor second only to Jesus Himself. Jesus said the sheep want to hear the shepherd’s voice–and not just Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, Max Lucado, or any other well-known pastor–but their pastor.

Now for the last 20 years we have produced over 500 video-based small group curriculum for local church pastors, all the major Christian publishers, and leading Christian ministries around the country. Our primary focus now is to help a local church produce their first, or maybe more advanced quality, production with the teaching from their senior pastor, testimonies from their members, leadership training by their staff, and a full color 100+ page magazine style curriculum with hundreds of photos from their congregation.

The following 7-step strategy is what we have learned to help a congregation make this happen:
  • SELECT: We’ll help you select a sermon series from previous years, or a new one you’re getting ready to kick off, that could be a good candidate for a church-wide curriculum. You can also choose from any of our pre-written semi-custom series.
  • SCRIPT: We’ll write a small group edition of each of the weekend sermons for video production or provide you pre-scripted outlines for our existing semi-custom series. We can also work with you to create video testimonies, devotionals, and other video features.
  • PRODUCE: We’ll work with you to select a great location  for the video shoot. We can come with our crew and gear and direct and produce your entire shoot or we can do a collaboration of our team and your team and produce a curriculum in a training format so that you can learn to do your own.
  • WRITE: We’ll write a small group curriculum based on the teaching of the senior pastor with additional resources including leadership training, group worksheets, and helpful tips.
  • DESIGN: We create a  full-color, magazine-style design for the print study guide with hundreds of photos from your church in a layout that matches your church and series theme.
  • DUPLICATE: We’ll do all the post-production editing and provide you with duplication-ready masters and print-ready files, or broker the duplication and printing of the curriculum for you.
  • LAUNCH: We’ll help you launch your campaign and coach you through the process, including ideas on promotional clips, recruiting leaders for new groups, building community, and developing existing groups.

I’d love to talk with you about how we might partner together to do your next video series. It could revolutionize your connection strategy and transform your church. Give us a call today!

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12 different church-wide campaigns that every church should consider

12 different church-wide campaigns that every church should consider

by | Dec 22, 2016 | Main Blog

After having the privilege of serving on staff at Saddleback with Rick Warren and helping to produce the Purpose Driven Life video curriculum, we developed the “40 Days of Purpose” church-wide campaign strategy – and the world as we knew it changed.

Today, churches want video solutions that can align with weekend sermon series and church-wide initiatives, they want high-quality print resources with study material and discussion questions, and they want all of it to fit the DNA and unique mission of their church in their community. So Lifetogether focuses on helping pastors and churches develop their own video-based curriculum. Here are a dozen strategies and campaign examples you could use at your church!

 

MISSION, VISION, VALUES SERIES

Every church has a spoken or unspoken mission, vision, and values. Sometimes these may be on the website or mentioned occasionally around the church, but most churches can grow in communicating these ideas more effectively. One of the most effective things Rick Warren used to do at Saddleback was deliver a mission, vision, and values series during the weekend services, and combining that with a conversational small group component allows it to really sink in to people’s heads and hearts.

Other pastors have also done this really effectively, like Greg and Josh Surratt at Seacoast Church. We were able to connect 10,000 people in groups there because the leadership team saw the value of producing a video curriculum that preceded the delivery of their major new initiatives. We captured testimonies from more than 30 staff members and 20 key volunteers along with teaching from both Greg and Josh and several other teaching team members. Some of their spouses participated in the teaching as well.

Another one was Harvest Church in Warner Robbins, Georgia with pastors Jim and Jennifer Cowart. The series was called “Living the Five” and the curriculum included hundreds of unique congregational photos from every major ministry representing the church’s five core values. The next one we did was for Heartland Church in Rockford, Illinois with Josh Peigh, Gene Appel, and Mike Breaux titled, “Why Am I Here?” This series also reviewed core values and was aligned with the weekend sermon series. It included testimonies from the congregation in a town hall production along with beautiful, full-color curriculum in a magazine style format featuring photos from their congregation.

 

MARRIAGE AND PARENTING SERIES

These are perennial favorite topics for weekend sermon series and also great for a small group campaign. These series create opportunities to include the spouse in the teaching, and the topics are applicable to a very broad audience and serve as a great way to involve new people and launch new groups. We have done several different series on themes of marriage, children, and family including one called “Family Matters” with Steve Poe and another one – coincidentally also called Family Matters – with Ken Foreman at Cathedral of Faith. Both churches are multi-site churches and it created an opportunity to get all of their campuses on the same page for the mid-week experience. We also were able to produce both of these series in a town hall setting where there were 50 or so church members listening to the senior pastor pastor teach in a very interactive conversational format.

 

STEWARDSHIP SERIES

Most churches don’t realize the opportunity to create a stewardship emphasis unless they’re involved in some kind of capital campaign. While a capital campaign can be a great time to do a church-wide small group project (more on this in a minute!), a more general stewardship series is a great way to increase the tithes and offerings of a church. We’ve done this with a variety of series that are wrapped around topics like time, talent, and treasure; the generosity principle; or “it all goes back in the box.” One of my favorites was “Crazy Generosity” by Dale Oquist from Peoples Church in Fresno. These series are a great way to start the new year and this one kicked off their year with a curriculum that got everybody more sensitive to the financial needs of the church.

 

NEW YEAR SERIES

Speaking of New Year’s, another great series to kick off the year is the Daniel Plan that we produced for Rick Warren. (My wife, Dee, is the director of the Daniel Plan.)  Emphasizing the values of spiritual, physical, and emotional health is a great topic after the holidays. Another good option for the start of the year is a prayer series like the one that we did called “Grounded” for Jim and Jennifer Cowart. This kind of a series is a good topic that can be introduced to any congregation and it’s easy and effective to put your own spin on it with a focus on spiritual habits or spiritual disciplines.

 

CONNECTION SERIES

Small group connection series are always home runs. We produced a series called “Doing Life Together” for Clay Peck and the team out at Grace Church in Colorado. That began initially as a campaign to connect people with an alignment series and then became a timeless resource so people could launch groups 52 weeks a year. Another great idea is a small group leader training initiative. This is an excellent opportunity to get everybody on the same page including your volunteer leadership. One of the most affective campaigns that we did was a volunteer campaign where we captured leadership training footage with all the teaching pastors from Bayside church and a roomful of all their senior staff and key volunteers. One day we laid down 15 unique sessions they are delivering as online training for all of their new and existing volunteers. It’s one of the most comprehensive series we’ve done for a church and they are using it to get everybody on the same page and be trained with the same content in a uniform fashion.

 

ANNUAL CHURCH-WIDE CAMPAIGN SERIES

Forty Days of Purpose served as the benchmark for all church-wide campaigns, and since that time we’ve produced hundreds of sermon alignment campaigns with curriculum for local churches. A great example of one we recently did was for Tommy and Luke Barnett and the team at Phoenix First in Phoenix, Arizona. The series we did matched the lifetime vision of Tommy, Luke, and Matthew Barnett; it was called “The Dream Centered Life.” That had the most spectacular full-color curriculum spread that was very creative and unique in its artwork and design. In addition, we were able to work with Luke to help him get a publishing contract based off the book title, which is a very common thing.

In fact, you can do one of these annual campaigns based off a book a pastor has already written, or you can even do it based on one he wants to write. We also work with pastors to help them ghostwrite a book based on a sermon series, life verse or key message that they’ve always wanted to go deeper with. These are great candidates for your first major church-wide campaign.

 

OUTREACH OR MISSIONS CAMPAIGN SERIES

Most churches understand the value of trying to have people share their faith on a regular basis, but they’ll typically do a sermon series about this that doesn’t get their people talking or practicing how to do this in practical ways. The result of a series like this aligned with a weekend sermon series can be very successful. One of our favorite recent examples is Bayside Church up in Sacramento, California; they did a series called “VIP,” which stands for very important parties. It was just a brief four-week series for the entire church that focused on how to share faith in a natural way.  Another favorite is called “Life on Mission” published by Tim Harlow and his team at Parkview Church in Illinois. This series engaged over 100 pastors of large churches that helped provide “cameos” on the video teaching and contributed to the series. The important thing with this is the possibility of engaging more than just the senior pastor and incorporating other members on the team and even members and new attenders. Including their testimonies or insights on the videos can be a great way to reinforce the idea of discipleship, sharing your faith, and reaching beyond your campus.

 

SPIRITUAL FORMATION SERIES

Most churches have a heart and a passion for discipleship but are not always able to take it from the theory or the theology to a practical reality. Producing a single discipleship series that aligns with a weekend sermon can be one of the most powerful things you can do to take your people deeper in their walk with God and help them grow spiritually. You have to take the equipping or the inspiration from the weekend and take it to conversation to get the greatest transformation out of the lives of the people in your church. Several examples of this include Jeff Greenway at Reynoldsburg United Methodist church who did a series called “Habits” that was one of the best ones we’ve done both in terms of the content and in terms of the design and layout of the series. It was a beautiful project. The other one was a strategy that is becoming more popular and is not a single volume but a multiple volume series. One of them was titled “The One Year of Transformation,” and this one was produced by Atonement Lutheran church with Don Wink in South Barrington, Illinois. They produced a three-volume discipleship series that aligned with three major sermon series over the course of the year. The results were powerful and for the Lutheran church were revolutionary in both connection and discipleship.

Another example is Charlie Holt at Saint Stevens church in Florida that developed a three-volume series called “The Resurrection Life,” followed by “A Spirit Filled Life” and finishing with “The Crucified Life.” These three volumes made up a one-year journey through the life of Christ. It was a very powerful series and one that is now being offered to many other churches. The concept of developing a multi-volume discipleship series is a very popular thing. The other one we did was called “The White Board Bible” with four volumes produced by Alan Jackson out of Murphysboro, Illinois. This series sought to introduce people to reading the Bible daily and going through the Bible annually as an entire congregation. Once again,  this was a great way to develop a spiritual formation process in the church while having the curriculum as a timeless tool forever.

 

APOLOGETICS OR SEEKER SERIES

Many churches offer this type of weekend sermon series but developing companion video curriculum gets the “one-two punch” of leveraging the weekend experience with a mid-week experience. My favorite series on this one is “Elephant Issues,” produced for Peoples Church with Dale Oquist in Fresno, California. Dale tackled some of the most challenging topics in our faith today with great teaching and we produced a very dramatic and beautiful full-color print study guide as well as a number of video testimonies.

 

SENIOR PASTOR’S BOOK

As mentioned previously, many times the senior pastors we work with have either written a book or hope to write a book someday. Doing curriculum and campaigns around a trade book the senior pastor has or wants to write is a very strategic thing both for the pastor and the church. It typically represents a topic the senior pastor has a great passion for, and these tend to be good factors when discerning which curriculum and campaign you’re going to develop. A favorite example of this for me was Chris Hodges from Church of the Highlands in Birmingham, Alabama where we produced a curriculum for his very first book titled, “Fresh Air,” published by Tyndale House. We repurposed testimonies and created a compilation of story and teaching from Chris.

 

EASTER OR LENT SERIES

Most pastors don’t know that producing a church-wide campaign and video series is a great way to fill the house on Easter. One of the best examples of this was “40 Days of Easter” produced by First Methodist Mansfield in Texas with David Alexander. This series provided a traditional 40-day march leading straight up to Easter Sunday. Then we developed a sequel or a follow-up series that helped to sustain the new groups that were launched. We also did a series with Gene Appel at Eastside Christian Church in Anaheim called “Hope Rising,” which actually launched on Easter Sunday and helped to assimilate more than 100% of his adults in the weeks following.

 

CAPITAL CAMPAIGN SERIES

When I first started doing small group curriculum and church-wide campaigns we were asked by several churches to produce stewardship curriculum. After turning down this option for many years, I finally partnered with JD Greear and the team out at the Summit Church in Raleigh, North Carolina. Not long long after, we produced a series for Miles McPherson at the Rock Church with even better results — we were able to get over 800 people in small groups going through his capital campaign. It had raving success and helped to raise 73 million dollars. Just weeks after that, we partnered with Dr. David Jeremiah at Shadow Mountain Church and had an amazing response where he was able to raise his weekly tithes and offerings by almost $100,000 and secure the final commitments for a new education building. I’ve come to realize this kind of video campaign and church-wide series is one of the most effective things a church can do to maximize their capital campaign initiative.

 

If you’re interested in hearing more, contact us today!

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Our partnerships with Outreach Magazine’s Top 100 Largest and Fastest-growing Churches

Our partnerships with Outreach Magazine’s Top 100 Largest and Fastest-growing Churches

by | Dec 20, 2016 | Partnerships

Our partnerships with Outreach Magazine’s Top 100 Largest and Fastest-growing Churches

It’s here again! Outreach 100, in collaboration with LifeWay Research, releases an annual list of the top 100 largest churches in the congregation, as well as the top 100 fastest-growing churches in the country. The 2016 list hit stands recently and we wanted to reminisce and do our own profile of each of the churches we have worked with over the years, in celebration of what God is doing in and through these ministries!

Saddleback Church – Rick Warren
After serving on the staff at Saddleback Church for over a decade, we continued to help produce dozens of church-wide campaigns and video-based series, including The Purpose Driven Life Series and the motherload of all campaigns, 40 Days Of Purpose. While on staff, we moved from 73 groups to over 3000 groups that has set the groundwork for a model today that is used with well over 7000 groups. The model itself is the most transferrable model for any church who has a value for connecting community through community.

Willow Creek – Bill Hybels
After serving with the senior staff for half a dozen years I served on a team that went from 23 groups to over a thousand groups with over ten thousand people in groups. I was invited back several years ago to produce the first video campaign called Wiser Together. With our coaching and consulting they were able to connect over ten thousand into groups in the first wave and one year later over twenty thousand people.

Oak Hills Church – Randy Frazee & Max Lucado
We produced one of the more unique video series with Randy Frazee, his wife Roxanne, Max Lucado, and his wife Dana called Make Room For Neighbors. This was one of the most beautiful productions, shot in multiple settings in their community. The curriculum includes testimonies and training features that have helped to launch thousands of people into groups and introduced a new model on how they could launch groups directly off the weekend series.

Church of the Highlands – Chris Hodges
We produced the curriculum companion for Chris Hodges’ book Fresh Air. We were able to coach and consult the small group team on how to recruit, develop, and lead a team. We equipped some high performance writers and talented designers to produce this series.

Christ Fellowship Church – Todd Mullins
Over ten years ago we produced the first video curriculum and church-wide campaign for Christ Fellowship with Tom Mullins, Todd’s father. This campaign helped launch 500 groups at the time and got close to 5,000 people into groups. Just this last week we confirmed a new partnership with Todd to help him and his team take their small group ministry to the next level and streamline their system strategies and staffing models to connect over 100% of their adults in groups.

Southeast Christian Church – Dave Stone
Over the last three years we have produced Dave Stone on several video curriculum projects including the Life on Mission project that was produced with over a hundred of the largest and fastest growing Christian Churches in the country. This series was published by Purpose Driven Ministries and introduced to hundreds of churches.

Woodlands Church – Kerry Shook
We consulted with Kerry Shook over a two year period helping them connect over 7500 people in groups. We helped produce numerous video curriculum and church wide campaigns including One Month to Live curriculum series that was used in over 8000 churches.

Mariners Church – Kenton Beshore
We produced the very first video curriculum and church-wide online campaign for Mariners church that connected over 5,000 people years ago. We produced Kenton Beshore right out of his office that aligned with a video companion curriculum. This aligned with a major church wide capital campaign that raised over 19,000,000 in the months following this small group campaign. We also introduced a breakthrough leadership training strategy that trained more than a 1000 small group leaders.

Bayside Church – Ray Johnston
We recently launched a one year partnership with Bayside that included four major video curriculum that all align with the weekend sermon series. The first campaign just recently launched and has already has close to 2000 groups and close to 20,000 people into these groups. The small group campaign leveraged all of our latest and greatest strategies recruiting leaders, training leaders, and mobilizing ordinary people in the congregation to take a video series and gather some of their friends. The results on this one speak for themselves.

New Life Church – Rick Bezet
I traveled to New Life and produced Rick in a video series that was produced for the ARC Church planting network. This video series was called Life Giving Relationships in which we produced over 100 of the top 100 Churches in their network. There were over 1000 people who attended, including their entire leadership team.

The Rock Church – Miles McPherson
We partnered with The Rock Church over a year to help launch and lead a new movement in their church to connect their entire congregation into community. In their first major campaign we helped move them from having 350 groups to just about 800 groups. The format was over the top and one of our most creative campaigns where we introduced a decentralized worship experience and an 8.5 X 11 full color congregational style curriculum. This initiative was integrated with a major capital campaign where they secured $73M in the “One Fund” strategy.

Watermark Community Church – Todd Wagner
We met with Todd and his small group team and introduced them to a new way of developing video based curriculum that align with their weekend teaching series and helped to influence the development of what was several different series that aligned with the weekend teaching and catalyze people into community.

Celebration Church – Stovall Weems
We produced a video curriculum series for Stovall and Kerri Weems based of Kerri’s book Rhythms of Grace. This series was shot in Weems’ home, wrapped around an audience of 40 people in their own living room. The companion series included a spectacular print curriculum and video DVD and when rolled out to the church there were amazing results. It served as the catalyst for us te partner with Christine Caine and develop five different propel curriculums. We are in conversation now to develop the next initiative to take their small group ministry to the next level.

Southland Christian Church – John Weiz
Years before John took over as senior pastor at Southland Christian Church we consulted with Mike Rowe and the existing staff team to take their small group ministry to the next level

North Coast Church – Larry Osborne
Larry has always been an inspiration on how we have done our small group ministry, from the early days of working at Willow Creek. Recently I gathered with Larry and his entire leadership team to talk about the breakthrough model we’re doing with decentralizing the worship experience by producing the worship team of a local church. With his encouragement we are now producing worship with many of our church partners. Churches are now included 10-20 songs that will be introduced in small group curriculum, microsite services, online services and as he said one of the best applications is church planting. I have produced Lary many times over the years from church leadership training and other tools for church leaders.

Potential Church – Troy Gramling
Produced a stewardship curriculum called Reveal with Troy. Teaching one of the sessions years ago with the capital campaign company RSI was based off the theme of time, talent, and treasure, and served as a Continuity program for capital campaign and stewardship programs.

United Methodist Church of the Resurrection – Adam Hamilton
We consulted with Adam Hamilton and his church for a year helping to introduce a new model of how to decentralize small groups. How to launch small groups into the community to reach their community for Christ. Adam went on to produce over a dozen based video curriculum that aligned with multiple books he had written and that aligned with his weekend services. Adam continues to be one of the greatest proponents of bringing alignment to what happens on the weekend with what happens in a small group setting throughout the week

The Summit Church – J.D. Greer
We consulted and coached J.D. and their executive team to produce their first video curriculum that aligned with a weekend teaching series and stewardship campaign where they raised a significant base of funds to fulfill their mission vision church planting and campus expansion. This was in the early days of lining a major church like campaign with a curriculum. Now it is the norm for us to partner with many churches and their capital campaigns.

Central Christian Church of Arizona – Cal Jernigan
We partnered with Cal to develop a series based off a life message that he had on the Kindom. In a cabin setting in the mountains we shot what was 30 different testimonies and teachings. This helped launch hundreds of small groups in his congregation and community. Studying a life message helped connect thousands of people in the congregation into community.

First Assembly of God – Dan Betzer
years ago we consulted with Dan Betzer and the entire team at First Assembly on how to connect your entire congregation into community by leveraging the model of off campus small groups with the weekend services. During this time we were not using the video curriculum that has proven to exponentially launch more and better groups on and off campus.

Cathedral of Faith – Ken Foreman
We’ve partenered with Ken and Curt Foreman and the entire Cathedral of Faith family to produce a major church wide campaign and video series called Family Matters. The was produced in a town hall format and included the production of their worship team in one of the most spectacular productions we have ever done. Results launched 5000 people into groups with 500 new groups

Shepherd of the Hills Church – Dudley Rutherford
We produced one of the most creative series we have done yet with Dudley. Being an avid cyclist, Dudley based the series Walls Fall Down off the his published book. We filmed this while Dudley rode his bicycle up and down the hills of Los Angeles. This series launched thousands into groups during a major campaign season.

Life Church TV – Craig Groeschel
I helped Craig produce material that was used for a project with Saddleback Church that integrated leader training with a teaching series. We were able to coach through how to use this material to launch and train leaders on the vision and values of worship in a church.

World Outreach – Allen Jackson
We have partnered now for three years in a consulting relationship with Allen Jackon. We have had the privilege of producing 8 different unique video series that has gotten north of 10,000 in 1100 small groups. This is one of the best models that we have that has sustained growth over multiple series rather than just one. The most recently produced project is also the most creative piece of work called Let’s Pray. Just this fall he is launching an additional 2000 to his already extremely effective small group strategy.

Northview Church – Steve Poe
We have produced several different series with Steve and the team at Northview. Each project has been a little different in how they are produced. Both were in done in a home setting. The latest was done in a very interactive town hall like environment around the topic of family, marriage, and relationship. This series helped to launch almost six thousand people into groups and continues to grow.

The Crossing – Jerry Harris
Jerry Harris is one of the contributing teachers on the video series that we did in conjunction with the North American Christian Churches and Tim Harlow called Life On Mission.

Savannah Christian Church – Cam Huxford
Cam was one of the contributing teachers on the series that we did with the North American Christian churches where he provided featured Leadership training for pastors called Life On Mission that helped focus their life and mission. Helping to refocus on living selflessly, Life On Mission, was released by Purpose Driven Ministries and introduced to hundreds of churches.

River Valley Church – Rob Ketterling
We produced Rob and his wife Bekkah along with his entire family in a series done with the Assemblies of God denomination. Over a two year partnership we were able to produce a 40 volume series along with leadership training. This series was called believe based on Dr. Woods keynote address. Rob played a primary role in the series Life Giving Relationships in which we produced.

Shadow Mountain – Dr. David Jeremiah
We were able to produce a three volume series with Dr. David Jeremiah. We produced an adult, spanish, and youth edition of the series. This series helped to raise the weekly tithing by almost a hundred thousand a week. And helped to finish what was a half a million dollar capital campaign for a new educational building.

Scottsdale Bible Church – Jamie Rasmussen
When Pastor Darryl Deuse (SP) was still the senior pastor we produced a series with him and Jamie Rasmussen that helped to launch thousands of people into small groups at Scottsdale. It was in the early days of curriculum but we are in conversations with Jamie now about all of the latest innovations and findings. We hope to continue to build on what was started years ago.

Healing Place Church – Mike Haman
Produced several different series with mike and his team. The initial development of the “GROW” strategy was developed at the healing place. This “grab a friend and go” strategy over a six month period has exponential growth.

Cornerstone Church – Sergio De La Mora
Coached and consulted with Sergio and his team on small group strategies for some time informally. We have had Sergio participate on multiple curriculum series over the year and conversation about helping to produce a series on the revolutionary heart as we speak.

Faith Promise Church – Chris Stevens
We consulted with with Chris over a years time and helped to produce multiple curriculum with him and his wife on a married series and a vision and value series. These efforts help connect about 5000 people into groups. As a result of our coaching Chris has gone and produces multiple series. They have one of the healthies small group ministries in the country.

Faith Assembly of God – Carl Stevens
Years ago we consulted with Carl and his team to develop a health small group ministry. As an Assembly Of God church, where small groups are not as common, we were able to make incredible progress together.

East Lake Church – Mike Meeks
We consulted with Mike Meeks for a season and helped him take his small group ministry to the next level. We coached Mike through producing multiple projects. This is one of the most vibrant churches in the world.

Cherry Hill – Shane Farmer
Working with Shane at Willow Creek on the largest small group launch Willow creek has ever done in history called Wiser Together. We developed small group strategy that has influenced Shane and the small group ministry at Cherry Hill.

Traders Point Christian Church – Aaron Brockett
Aaron was one of the contributing participants in the series Life On Mission and provided the young emerging voices in a tribe of more established churches around the country. Aarons teaching style is authentic and edgy at the same time. Offered leadership training to many pastors

Real Life Church – Rusty George
Produced a town hall video production in a living room setting with Rusty that helped connect over 3000 people in this congregation. The team engaged in the opportunity to decentralize worship. We were able to help author and design curriculum that acted as a companion and complement to the series.

Crossroads Christian church – Chuck Booher
Participated in the production Life On Mission that has been introduced to hundreds of churches. Chuck provided both teaching content and leadership training.

Eastview Christian Church – Mike Baker
Produced a series with Eastview in the streets in Chicago. Walking through the community Mike did the best job teaching in order to produce a series that was launching in hundreds of churches around the country. We were able to help write and produce with Mike and the teaching team. This was used as an alignment campaign connecting over 4000 people.