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q1 2025

The Unstuck Church Report: Q1 2025

Get key takeaways from our Q1 2025 church trends report in the areas of attendance growth, engagement metrics, multisite expansion, and financial health. In this quarter's report, Amy Anderson shared personal insights on church growth outpacing engagement systems, the continued momentum of multisite strategies, and practical steps churches can take to strengthen their connection pathways.
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eBooks

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Planning Your Next Ministry Calendar

When we fail to plan, we’re planning to fail. In this comprehensive resource, video and written content will walk you through the necessity of planning for all ministry areas, and help you identify your next steps for planning your next ministry calendar.
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Top 28 Reasons Why Churches Get Stuck

Tony Morgan shares the top seven reasons why churches of four different sizes commonly get stuck to help you determine what your priority focus needs to look like.
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4 things churches don’t actually need ebook

4 Things Churches Don’t Actually Need

It's possible to have clarity and alignment and still be doing the wrong things to get the results that you want. In this ebook, we'll unpack the four things your church doesn’t need to fulfill your God-given mission—and explain what you need instead.
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How to Fund Ministry in Uncertain Economic Times

In these times of economic uncertainty, some things are clear: funding ministry is getting more expensive, and giving to churches is shrinking. This guide features a series of insights and conversations to help you navigate this important topic with your church team.
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Systems That Turn Vision into Reality

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Big Churches Getting Bigger

Large churches often continue to grow and thrive because they are strategic in approach to alignment, adaptability, leadership and reach.
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Developing a Theology of Planning

It’s critical to plan before we build.
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Developing a Theology of Leadership

It’s important to wrestle with and understand how God defines leadership. 
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Job Descriptions

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Executive Pastor: Understanding the Role and Profile

The Executive Pastor role is a unique position of second-chair leadership. In this short PDF, dive into the purpose of the XP role and the ideal profile for a successful XP.
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Operations Director Job Description

The Operations Director is primarily responsible to lead and direct the central systems, structures and teams that maximize the operating effectiveness of (church name) including Facilities, Human Resources, Information Technology, and Finance.
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Senior Pastor

The role of the Senior Pastor (SP) is to oversee the spiritual health and direction of the church under the direction [or “with the advisory oversight”] of the [Board].
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Executive Pastor

The role of the Executive Pastor (XP) is to assist the Senior Pastor (SP) in overseeing the life and direction of the church under the direction of the [Board].
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Director of Family Ministries

The role of the Director of Family Ministries (DFM) is to oversee the family ministry strategy of [Church Name] under the direction and leadership of the [Position Title].
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Director of Digital Strategies

The role of the Director of Digital Strategies is to lead and design the digital strategies that help people outside the church take next steps towards the church and faith, and engage people within the church to take their next steps on the discipleship pathway.
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Creative Arts Pastor

The role of the Pastor of Connections (PC) is to oversee the connection and spiritual growth strategy of [Church Name] under the direction and leadership of the [Position Title].
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Connections Pastor

The role of the Pastor of Connections (PC) is to oversee the connection and spiritual growth strategy of [Church Name] under the direction and leadership of the [Position Title].
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Whitepapers, Research & Reports

q1 2025

The Unstuck Church Report: Q1 2025

Get key takeaways from our Q1 2025 church trends report in the areas of attendance growth, engagement metrics, multisite expansion, and financial health. In this quarter's report, Amy Anderson shared personal insights on church growth outpacing engagement systems, the continued momentum of multisite strategies, and practical steps churches can take to strengthen their connection pathways.
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The Unstuck Church Report q4 2024

The Unstuck Church Report: Q4 2024

Get key takeaways from our new multisite-focused report in the areas of multisite staffing, leadership, multiplication strategy, and more. In this quarter's report, Amy Anderson shared personal takeaways on identical vs. autonomous campuses, the differences between thriving and failed campuses, and more.
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The Unstuck Church Report: Q3 2024

Get key takeaways from our most recent assessment results in the categories of reach, connection, staffing and structure, finances and overall health. In this quarter's report, Tony Morgan shared his personal reflections on the data, provides a summary of the data by church size, and more.
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The Unstuck Church Report: Q2 2024

Get key takeaways from our most recent assessment results in this special staffing-focused edition of the Unstuck Church Report. In this quarter's report, Tony Morgan shared his personal reflections on the data, provides a summary of the data by church size, and more.
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The Unstuck Church Report: Q1 2024

Get key takeaways from our most recent assessment results in the categories of reach, connection, staffing and structure, finances and overall health. In this quarter's report, Tony Morgan shared his personal reflections on the data, provides a summary of the data by church size, and more.
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The Unstuck Church Report: Q4 2023

Get key takeaways from our new multisite-focused report in the areas of multisite staffing, leadership, multiplication strategy, and more. In this quarter's report, Tony Morgan shared personal takeaways on identical vs. autonomous campuses, the differences between thriving and failed campuses, and more.
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the unstuck church report q3 2023

The Unstuck Church Report: Q3 2023

Get key takeaways from our most recent assessment results in the categories of reach, connection, staffing and structure, finances and overall health. In this quarter's report, Tony Morgan shared his personal reflections on the data, provides a summary of the data by church size, and more.
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The Unstuck Church Report: Q2 2023

Get key takeaways from our most recent assessment results in this special staffing-focused edition of the Unstuck Church Report. In this quarter's report, Tony Morgan shared his personal reflections on the data, provides a summary of the data by church size, and more.
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Practical Guides and Tools

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Sermon Series Planning Guide

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Sample Engagement Path

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Multisite Toolkit [complete]

Tools from our Strategic Planning for Multisite process. Whether you’re leading a multisite church today, or considering this strategy for your future, we are sure you’ll find these tools invaluable. One complete PDF with resources to help you: 1. Choose a multisite model 2. Clarify decision rights for your campus 3. Build a customized launch plan 4. Execute a 12-month timeline to launch your next campus 5. Determine the best location/venue for your next campus… and more!
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