Weekly trainings

Church Growth Collective

Practical church marketing and growth trainings — outreach, communications, branding, and digital strategy for churches.

Free for Ministry Feed members

What You'll Learn

Each training is a practical, hands-on session designed for church leaders and ministry teams. You'll walk away with a concrete plan you can use this week — not just theory.

Outreach & Community Research

Use free demographic tools and community profiles to understand your neighborhood and plan outreach that actually reaches the people around your church.

Community demographicsLocal mission planningChurch outreach

Church Communications

Extend the life of your Sunday message through sermon repurposing, weekly discipleship touchpoints, and post-sermon follow-up that keeps the word growing all week.

Sermon repurposingWeekly discipleship touchpointsPost-sermon follow-up

Digital Strategy & Social Media

Practical social media for churches — quote graphics, devotional writing, and content systems that steward your ministry message online without burning out your team.

Social media for churchesQuote graphicsDevotional writing

How It Works

Weekly Training Releases

A new training drops every week, each one focused on a real church growth challenge.

Watch & Replay

Join live or watch the replay on your own schedule. Every session is archived in the library.

Community Discussion

Talk through each training with other pastors and ministry leaders doing the same work.

Latest Trainings

Website Speed: Why 3 Seconds Can Cost Your Church Visitors

This training argues that website speed is not merely a technical issue but a ministry and hospitality issue for churches. Jeremy Woods shows how slow mobile load times quietly undermine outreach, offers a practical parking-lot speed test, and identifies common homepage problems pastors and ministry leaders can address with their teams.

church website speeddigital hospitalitymobile user experience

Using the Community Profile Builder for Church Outreach Planning

This training walks churches through using ARDA’s free community profile builder to understand the demographics, economics, and religious landscape around their church. The author demonstrates how to export that data, bring it into ChatGPT, and turn it into ministry insights and a practical 90-day outreach plan.

community demographicschurch outreachministry strategy

Sermon Repurposing: Extending the Life of Your Sunday Message

This training teaches a practical method for extending the impact of Sunday sermons by repurposing them into multiple formats throughout the week. The author frames sermon repurposing as an issue of stewardship, reinforcement, and sustainable ministry communication rather than self-promotion or content marketing.

Sermon repurposingChurch communicationsContent reuse

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