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...
by Momentum Team | Jul 7, 2026 | Leadership, Mission, Unfiltered Podcast
For the past several weeks, we have been talking about mission, leadership, discipleship, community engagement, and the future of the Church. They are the realities church leaders face every day. We believe the Church still has an extraordinary opportunity to impact...
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,...
by Tracee Swank | Jul 6, 2026 | Challenges, Mission, Prayer, Tracee J. Swank
Scripture “All at once an angel touched him and said, ‘Get up and eat.’” (1 Kings 19:5b NIV) After his greatest ministry victory, Elijah collapsed in the wilderness and asked God to take his life. God’s first move was not a sermon or a strategy. It was food. Then...
