Thanks for Your Interest in the What We’ve Learned So Far Webinar
Churches are now several weeks into their digital church experience. What have we learned so far? What is working? What is not working? How can churches innovate well right now in ways that will continue to be high impact long past the quarantine? Watch President of Stadia Greg Nettle, Co-Founder and CEO of Intentional Churches Doug Parks, and leader of the Spire Network Rick Rusaw as they share what they’ve been seeing, hearing and learning from church leaders around the country.
Additional Resources
RESOURCES FROM INTENTIONAL CHURCHES
ChurchOS Book Resources Digital Course
BLOGS
A More Robust Definition of ‘Good’ (Brandon Grant)
The Church is Made For This (Nathan Hawkins)
Eight Lessons Learned in Responding to Crisis (Jason Adams-Brown)
For Such a Time As This (Rachel Hunka)
Hey, Church Leader – How’s Your Margin?
Thank You, God, For “Breaking” Your Church
PODCASTS
The Church Planting Podcast Season Two (with Greg Nettle)
Our Guests
Doug Parks Bio
Doug is the Co-founder and CEO of Intentional Churches. He is the co-author o fIntentional Churches: How Implementing an Operating System Clarifies Vision, Improves Decision Making, and Stimulates Growth(Harper Collins / Thomas Nelson / Leadership Network).
Doug’s love and commitment to help churches comes from his own experience of being eternally impacted as a teenager by a committed church leader. He served for seventeen years as the executive pastor at Canyon Ridge Christian Church in Las Vegas, Nevada. Doug and his wife, Jennifer, reside in Las Vegas with their two children, but he still finds time to follow sports, including his beloved Ohio State Buckeyes.
Rick Rusaw Bio
Christian Leader, Pastor, Author and Entrepreneur –Rick Rusaw continues to blend his talents and heart for service to influence faith-based and corporate leaders around the world.
Rick currently leads the Spire Network, a national digital engagement platform, conference and innovation community focused on equipping and inspiring Christian leaders.
Rick is also on the Executive team of Gloo, a Boulder based company that is bringing big tech and big data for good, connecting the Global Christian eco-system.
For more than 28 years, Rick served as Lead Pastor at LifeBridge Christian Church in Longmont, Colorado. The growing congregation averaged a weekly attendance of more than 3500 across three campuses in the least religious county in America. Rick has assisted churches and denominations worldwide in developing an external focus to ministry and has authored several books and resources including the best-selling missional-book, Externally Focused Church, Life on Loan, Externally Focused Quest, 60 Simple Secrets Every Pastor Needs to Know,The Neighboring Church and The Neighboring Life.
Rick and his wife Diane have three children and seven grandchildren who all call Colorado home.