by Tracee Swank | Aug 6, 2026 | Discipleship, Leadership, Mission, Tracee J. Swank
There are people in your congregation right now who are quietly frustrated. They see opportunities the church is missing. They have ideas for reaching the community that have never been heard. They are wired to spot problems and build solutions, and in their work...
by Tracee Swank | Jul 30, 2026 | Discipleship, Mission, Outreach, Tracee J. Swank
Walk into the average church staff meeting and listen to what gets discussed. The calendar. The volunteer gaps. The aging facility. The programs that need propping up. Most of the energy in most congregations goes into keeping existing things running. This is not a...
by Tracee Swank | Jul 23, 2026 | Discipleship, Mission, Outreach, Tracee J. Swank
Here is a question worth sitting with, even though it stings. If your church closed its doors tomorrow and disappeared completely, who in your community would notice? Beyond your own members, would the schools notice? The nonprofits? The neighborhood? The local...
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 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...
