by Tracee Swank | Jul 16, 2026 | Discipleship, Leadership, Mission, Movement, Tracee J. Swank
How can your church get started on reclaiming the real biblical process of filling the leadership pipeline? Follow a plan, a 12-month blueprint for mission-focused churches ready to begin rebuilding their half of the pipeline. It is not a program. It is a rhythm. Any...
by Tracee Swank | Jul 14, 2026 | Discipleship, Mission, Movement, Outreach, Tracee J. Swank
Imagine your congregation a year from now. Twelve months of walking. Twelve months of listening at the coffee shop. Twelve months of asking real questions and paying attention to the answers. A few small, sustainable steps taken in response to what you have heard....
by Tracee Swank | Jul 13, 2026 | Leadership, Movement, Prayer, Tracee J. Swank
Scripture “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?” (Isaiah 43:19a NIV) God spoke this to people in exile, still grieving everything they had lost. He did not minimize the loss. He simply refused to let it become a ceiling. He was...
by Tracee Swank | Jul 9, 2026 | Discipleship, Leadership, Mission, Movement, Tracee J. Swank
Somewhere in the last half century, the Church quietly learned to think of pastors as products. Not crudely. Not on purpose. But the language revealed the assumption. We spoke of pastoral searches the way people speak of hiring. We talked about the pastoral market. We...
by Tracee Swank | Jul 7, 2026 | Discipleship, Mission, Movement, Tracee J. Swank
After all the walking, listening, and honest reflection, the temptation is to do something big. Do not. Not yet. The history of established churches trying to pivot is littered with well-intentioned big launches that exhausted the congregation, fizzled within a year,...
