DEEPER & WIDER
Brett’s New Consulting Partnership
Brett Eastman
After serving for over 30 years on the senior staff of two of the largest teaching churches in America, I learned some of the principles and practices for growing a larger church.
If I am honest, it wasn’t till I started coaching and consulting with literally 100’s of churches that had grown to over 1000 in weekend attendance that I started learning the best practices, innovations and strategies use to overcome the common barriers to accelerated growth.
Every pastor I know hopes to grow their church. Not only numerically but in every way. But sorting though all the models and methods to do that is sometimes confusing. But what if the best practices and proven models for success were introduced and then you could talk about them live with your team. Solutions and strategies that fit your context, resources, staffing, and community could be developed together.
That is what this new coaching and consulting program is all about. Great ideas plus good conversation can lead to amazing breakthroughs.
While the gospel message won’t change, our methods and practices need to be ever-changing in order to reach not only the next but current generation. The only constant they say is change. The only question is what needs to change and how to change it.
Over the last three decades, I have become a student of the largest and fastest-growing churches and discovered the best principles and practices that can serve churches of all stages and sizes. And I love helping churches not only discover these learnings but develop a plan to move them from one place to the other.
My dream is to partner with a handful of churches that are longing to learn, grow and take things to the next level. If you sense you would like to explore this further feel free to call or contact me today.
Better Together,
Brett
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. Sermon Planning, Preaching & Programming
The inspiration for this track came from research done with hundreds of the best practices found in the fastest growing churches across the country. While the timeless principles and strategies for delivering weekend sermon series is well understood, emerging methodologies and innovations are vital for churches that are trying to impact their congregation and culture that is less responsive to traditional practices.
- Latest breakthroughs and innovations in preaching and teaching ministry styles, formats, and programming
- Network with like-minded pastors and churches around the country
- Access to outlines, manuscripts and audio files from the largest and fastest growing
- Learn the best practices in building a master calendar and planning sermon series
- Discover new teachings from innovative senior pastors, worship leaders, and creative directors
- Find new mentor churches with established and emerging voices
- Learn what growing churches are preaching and what they are doing to reinforce their vision and values
- Gain sermon ideas and creativity for the major weekend services (Christmas, Easter, Mother’s Day)
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2. Small Group Ministry & Connection Strategies
Most churches understand the priority and value for community engagement and local outreach but the practices and methodologies are not always the most effective and deliver the desired outcomes. The difference between the biblical vision and implementation can’t be miles apart. Learning best practices and proven methodologies can help enhance your effectiveness and grow your congregation.
- Learn how to catalyze an unlimited number of small group leaders
- Discover the best practices on how to connect over 100% of your congregation
- Cultivate a network of disciples who make disciples
- Learn how to produce in-house alignment campaigns and curriculum
- Learn how community can help reach your community for Christ
- Recruit, train, and develop leaders and those who lead them
- Discover the secrets of sustaining, growing, and multiplying your groups
- Discover the power of technology and media to launch and lead groups
3. Volunteer Ministry & Leadership Development
Recruiting and developing volunteers for local churches has become even more important with the declining weekend attendance and more limited church budgets. The renewal of both the need and the priority of volunteer ministry will only grow in the years to come. With proven models and best practice solutions, any church can exponentially increase their total volunteer hours with greater ministry impact.
- Learn how to recruit high-capacity full-time and part-time volunteer staff
- Managing your volunteer pipeline
- Mobilize people in the ministry in the matter of weeks
- Find the best fit for any volunteer while increasing retention and results
- Learn how to train and develop ministry teams and their leaders
- Mobilize members for short term projects and critical initiatives
- Build a volunteer driven staff
- Learn keys to sustaining and strengthening long-term volunteers
- Discover breaththrough methods for gift based discovery classes, curriculum, and online courses
4. Church-wide Innovations and Breakthroughs
You will learn the best practices, latest innovations, and breakthrough ideas from over 1000 of the largest churches in America. These aggregated and curated ideas will serve as the backbone to our conversations in every area of ministry.
- Latest learnings from thought leading churches
- Breakthrough strategies and proven performance drivers
- Customize to your context, church culture, and community
- Learnings from across tribes, regions, and theological persuasions
- Latest and greatest tools, training, and technology
- Serve as a part-time Chief Innovation Officer (CIO)
- Discover growth engines, performance drivers, and lead indicators
- Focus on your felt needs and your untapped real needs
- Bringing hundreds of church laboratories to your front door
5. Next-Step Assimilation, Discipleship & Engagement
While on staff at Saddleback Church, Pastor Rick Warren used to call me “Pastor Next-Step” because of the partnership we developed between his teaching ministry and the next-step opportunities for the congregation. Defining, designing, and developing best practices for moving people into and through a systematic next-step process.
- Define and develop your discipleship pathway
- Learn proven strategies to move people from the street to the seat
- Evaluate multiple assimilation and retention models
6. Engaging Technology, Digital Media & Next Gen Marketing
Learning how to leverage the power of emerging technologies, new media, and your online platform is vital to not only surviving but thriving in the future. Growing churches are finding more and better ways to leverage the life of their pastor. The content that is created and a vision for the future in these critical arenas.
- Discover ways to repurpose your pastors content digitally
- Learn how to recruit high-capacity professional media and technology volunteers
- Discover the latest technological breakthroughs and innovations
- Find more productive ways to engage people online
- Sharpen the saw of your current media, technology and online pastors
- Learn how to launch Small Groups and mobilize volunteers from your online platform
- Develop new ways to produce more engaging online weekend services
- Discover follow-up, retention, and assimilation strategies that work online
- Find better ways to align technology and media with core priorities and weekend services.
7. Local Outreach, Evangelism and Community Engagement
You will learn the best practices, latest innovations, and breakthrough ideas from over 1000 of the largest churches in America. These aggregated and curated ideas will serve as the backbone to our conversations in every area of ministry.
- Latest learnings from thought leading churches
- Breakthrough strategies and proven performance drivers
- Customize to your context, church culture, and community
- Learnings from across tribes, regions, and theological persuasions
- Latest and greatest tools, training, and technology
- Serve as a part-time Chief Innovation Officer (CIO)
- Discover growth engines, performance drivers, and lead indicators
- Focus on your felt needs and your untapped real needs
- Bringing hundreds of church laboratories to your front door
8. Build Your Own Custom Track
4 PART STRATEGY
This model of engagement includes four major integrated strategies that are part of an intentional and interactive process helping to maximize the impact of our partnership.
These four major strategies are complementary, catalytic, and fully connected with each other, keying on a dynamic balanced approach to make the most of our time together. They include: onsite one day visits, offsite virtual team meetings, one-on-one personal coaching sessions, and custom recorded online courses for your staff and ministry leaders.
On-Site / On-Campus One Day Visits
- 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
One-On-One Coaching Calls
- Primarily for senior pastor & leadership team, allowing for sensitive and private discussions
- Includes regular and infrequent sessions with ministry team leaders and key staff members
- Designed for sessions with a few key volunteers
- Sessions serve as a deeper dive on strategic topics plus accountability and preparation for team meetings
Virtual Team Meetings
- Designed to address strategic topics selected from the 7 tracks
- Serve as a review of the progress and renewal of next-step plans
- Targeting strategic leadership and ministry teams
- Opportunity to de-brief and discuss via one-on-one sessions and one day visits
Online Elective Sessions
- Content will be created based off the primary tracks and elective categories
- Ted-talk format for quick access and  24/7 availability
- Designed to inform and follow-up for team meetings
- Content used to inspire and instruct all senior staff and key volunteers
PARTNERSHIP PACKAGES
This blend of larger team meetings and smaller personal settings using on campus and off campus virtual sessions, team meetings and courses will allow a cost effective and time efficient process to address your felt needs and take your church to the next level. To that effect, I have further developed the pricing model to include a few sliding scales of engagement based on a variety of different needs, priorities, church size and even budget considerations. See the table below.
ELECTIVES
In addition, we have come up with 20 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.
NEXT GENERATION SMALL GROUP MINISTRY
A fresh way to look at small group ministry based on the success of key churches.
DETERMINING GROWTH ENGINES, PERFORMANCE DRIVERS & CATALYSTS
What are the key drivers for any growing church?
SERMON IDEAS, TOPICS & OUTLINES FROM GROWING CHURCHES
Patterns in preaching strategies to sharpen your impact.
Increasing your giving & generosity factor
Breakthrough messages on finances and stewardship that will increase your giving.
NEW INNOVATIONS IN CHURCH STAFFING
Learn how to recruit, train and develop high-capacity leaders and volunteers.
LEARN HOW TO PROFESSIONALLY PRODUCE BOOKS & RESOURCES
How to re-purpose past content and turn your church into a publishing a house.
proven weekend assimilation & “next step” strategies
Develop new strategies for stronger weekend connections.
EMERGING MULTI-SITE & micro-site STRATEGIES
How to refine and multiply your off-site venues.
go deeper & wider w/ your online audience
Tools to get more viewers to participate in your online experience.
PRODUCE IN-HOME VIDEO CURRICULUM & ALIGNMENT CAMPAIGNS
Discover ways to utilize your team to produce in-house videos.
BREAKTHROUGH WEEKEND ALIGNMENT STRATEGIES
Transferable lessons to help all churches launch groups.
RECRUITING & DEVELOPING UNLIMITED LEADERS
Discover the 12 proven models for recruiting and sustaining leaders.
MOBILIZING & MOTIVATING MORE VOLUNTEERS
Develop events and activities that encourage members to serve.
LEVERAGING YOUR LIFE, LEADERSHIP & LEGACY
Repurpose your past teachings for greater impact.
CREATE A DISCIPLESHIP PATHWAY & PROCESS THAT WORKS
Move the seeker to a leader through a discipleship pathway.
MAXIMIZING CHRISTMAS -& EASTER SERVICES
Discover ways to create next-steps activity after major holiday weekends.
REVOLUTIONARY MEDIA & TECHNOLOGY BREAKTHROUGHS
Learn how to bring functional church through media.
LEARN HOW TO PRODUCE MORE ENGAGING VIDEO PRODUCTIONS
Engage your members with Town Hall meetings and interview panels.
NEW MODELS FOR BRINGING CHURCH TO THE COMMUNITY
Reach your community with cutting edge tools and resources.
“Lifetogether Coaching has proven to be the single most effective tool for attacking my ministry goals.”
Ready to get started?
Call my cell or email me any time to schedule a next-step conversation or on-site assessment. It’s my hope to confirm a few more churches over the next couple of weeks.