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The Unstuck Church Podcast

Jun 24, 2026

The Q2 2026 Unstuck Church Report is here!

For this report, we are focusing on staffing trends in churches of various sizes.

In this year’s survey, we asked pastors and church leaders to tell us about the biggest staffing and structure challenges their churches are facing. And it’s clear that there are some big...


Jun 17, 2026

"Where do we find great staff leaders? We need them, and we need them now."

If your only approach to finding staff leaders is to hire fully formed, fully capable leaders from the outside whenever you need them, you will always be reactive.

So far in this series, we've talked about the importance of developing your...


Jun 10, 2026

You probably have people serving with more leadership capacity than you know, and you may have volunteers who have taken on more leadership than they actually have capacity for.

Often, churches hand leadership responsibility to volunteers who don’t have the capacity for it. Or they fail to develop the people who do...


Jun 3, 2026

You need great volunteers if you want to hire internally. But to develop volunteers, you need more great staff…

It can feel like an endless cycle. But it doesn’t have to be.

Trying to find leaders as quickly as possible leads to high turnover and hard conversations. But when you develop leaders with a sustainable...