I’m excited to announce that Backstage Pastors is starting a Podcast! We are recording season one in just a couple weeks with all episodes being recorded in one weekend! Our hope is to release season one in March, one episode a week for 15 weeks. If you want to be notified when the podcast launches, the best thing to do is sign up for email updates here on the site or follow @backstagepastors on Instagram or Facebook. We’ve got some really awesome guests lined up, but I’ll talk about that in another post. We should have a preview episode up on Itunes, etc. very soon so that you’ll be able to subscribe to in advance.

If you have a business that serves churches or pastors and you are looking for an opportunity to advertise your services or products, I’m open to sponsors. I have not really put any time into seeking sponsors, but I’m happy to talk about it. Just email me.

Can’t wait to share this new tool with you in the spring! Lot’s more info coming soon.

For many years, I’ve had the privilege of coaching Executive Pastors who were new to the role, or just needed a second set of eyes during a season of personal growth. For new church planters, it’s been my privilege to find ways to try to provide this coaching to you free of charge. For others, I’ve offered myself up at a nominal cost to offset the time borrowed from my family. Since this is not my main gig, I’ve been able to provide Executive Coaching for much less than those who do it full time. If this is something you are interested in pursuing, keep on reading and then reach out to me. It would be my privilege to help you grow in your ability to lead your church and staff well. Send additional questions or customized requests to backstagepastors@gmail.com. 

It was a privilege to be interviewed by Rich Birch at UnSeminary Podcast recently. Check out the video on YouTube or listen to the audio on Itunes. Find all the details at the UnSeminary website.  If you don’t already subscribe to this podcast, I’d suggest checking it out. Its got some great practical topics to help you out in everyday ministry.

I’m excited to be heading back to Guatemala next week to teach at the Acts 29 conference. Great things are happening for the Gospel in Latin America. Francisco Bendfelt’s church, Casa de Libertad is a great example of this. I’ll be traveling with our Lead Pastor, Renaut Van Der Riet, as well as couple guys from our Mosaic Latino team. Renaut and I will both be teaching twice during the conference and our good friend and global partner, Jay Bauman from Rio de Janiero will also be joining us to teach. When audio is available, I’ll be sure to post links. Pray for us!

I’m excited to announce that the Spanish translation of my book Defining The Executive Pastor Role is now available on Amazon in E-book and Paperback! If Spanish is your primary language, maybe this will be a help to you. If not, please share the link with others who may benefit from this tool. Many thanks to Sandrie Alvarado at Casa de Libertad in Guatemala City, Guatemala for doing the translation.

I’m exited to be teaching at the XPastor Seminar in about a month from now. If you’ve never been before, it’s not too late to sign up and I’d highly recommend it regardless of where you are in your development as an XP.

Today at 1PM EST, I’ll be interviewed by the team at Innovate For Jesus on the role of the Executive Pastor. Tim Stevens will also be on the show with me. Tim used to be the XP at Granger Community Church and now works for Vanderbloemen Search Group.

I am one of those weird people that has been blessed with incredible clarity about my role on this planet. I know what I’m supposed to do with my life. Outside of my faith and my family, I’m supposed to help bring vision into reality. It’s that simple and easy (which is to say, it’s incredibly complex and difficult). I help bring vision into reality in my own local church as an Executive Pastor, and I help bring vision into reality outside of my church by coaching, speaking at conferences and now writing books.

This fall, I’m excited to be partnering with David Fletcher at XPastor.org by teaching in his XP-Certification Program. David is one of the strongest and most trustworthy voices in the XP Community. His website has long been a great source of information for XP’s around the country and his yearly XP-Seminar has been the ONLY conference specifically created for second chair leaders in the church. Plus, he’s just an awesome guy that you can’t help but like.