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Improve Communication with Stage Time Drills

At Life.Church, we don’t give “announcements.” We lead people to action. Because of this philosophy, leaders at our campuses set aside time weekly to practice how they’re going to interact with attenders from the stage. We call this Stage Time Drills. A Stage Time Drill begins with a speaker doing...

Service & Events

Three Tips for Stage Communication

It can be scary—having only a few minutes to convey all the news, initiatives, and stories that you want to share with your congregation during a service. But if you think of communicating from stage less as making announcements and more as casting vision, you'll be able to craft stronger, more coh...

Lead with Vision: Tips for Stage Communication

At Life.Church, Pastor Craig teaches the message every week via video to our campuses. But every campus has a campus pastor who is responsible for boots-on-the-ground pastoring to the people in that community. They take to the stage every week for what we call "stage time"—it's an opportunity to sh...

Service & Events

YouVersion Events: Your Church Inside the Bible App

Here at Life.Church, we love the YouVersion Bible App. With more than 300,000,000 installations on phones and tablets all over the world, the Bible App is helping people everywhere engage with God's word. With YouVersion's mission to increase Bible engagement and Open Network's heart to serve pasto...

Leading in the Right Role

Before you step up to speak, before you have a developmental conversation, and before you cast vision, there’s one thing you have to do first. You need to clearly define the purpose. There are three important things to consider to define your purpose: • What you want people to kno...

When is a Leader Ready for Stage Communication?

How do you know when a developing communicator is ready to go on stage? Life.Church Campus Pastor Tim Knox chats with us about the process of identifying developing communicators. Get practical tips of what stage communication should include and how you can let your church staff practice in practic...

Online Ministry

Virtual Experience, Real Community

Church Online reaches a unique audience, and it comes with a unique set of tools and goals. While the Church Online Platform is versatile enough to accommodate many different ministry styles and technologies, here's how we approach our online ministry. Each of our online experiences...

Church Social Media: Advanced Strategies for Facebook and Instagram

If your church is on social media, chances are you use Facebook and Instagram as part of your strategy. So, how do you grow an audience on these platforms? What are tips for engagement? And, what about influencer marketing? At the Church Social Media Roundtable, social media managers and communic...