Jul 8, 2026
Of all the relationships in your church, there's one relationship that determines whether everything else runs smoothly or grinds to a halt—the relationship between the senior pastor and the executive pastor.
When it's healthy, the whole organization feels it. And when it's not…the whole organization feels that...
Jul 1, 2026
Fast-growing churches don't necessarily impress us. More often than not, growth reveals the areas where churches are actually stuck. But every once in a while, we run into a church that is both growing and healthy.
City Church in Fort Wayne, Indiana, has seen 51% year-over-year growth. But they've experienced more...
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...