Jason has a great new podcast over at Worship Leader Insights.

It’s titled “Creating Servants, Not Superstars – How to Help Your Volunteers Embrace the Role of Servanthood”

Check it out!

Listen or Download online and its FREE!

On Friday (April 18) we had our first Worship Leader Insights event outside of NYC.  It was a full house of almost 100 hundred worship leaders to hear Jason teach on “The Top 3 Challenges Every Worship Leader Faces.”  It was a great free event that we offerred at no charge to Worship Leaders.

One of the “Top 3 Challenges” was “the Pastor Challenge” - what is that all about?  OK, seriously, if anyone knows how to work with a challenging pastor, its Jason!  We’ve been doing church together in NYC since the beginning.

I was so proud of him on Friday.  He did a great job leading the event.  And it was great to meet everyone who attending (including a few Senior Pastor types who snuck into the event).

In case you missed it, check out Worship Leader Insights and Jason’s monthly podcast here.

P.S. Jason’s doing this event again in Midland Park/Pasaaic, NJ on May 9 (Metro NYC) if you are in the area sign up today – its free.

I can’t wait for the Fusion Webinar!  We have almost 60 people signed-up and its growing by the minute.

1) Here’s the Listeners Guide (notes) for you to download and use as you listen to me on the telephone and follow the slides on your computer with internet access.

Right Click Here and Choose Save As to Download

2) Here’s the Free Strategy Document we promised:

Right Click Here and Choose Save As to Download

Remember, if you have any issues the day of, call 1-800-264-5129.

If you have questions that you’d like me to address during the webinar, send those to this special webinar email – webinar@churchleaderinsights.com (note: this email will be shut down the day after the seminar).

Please be in prayer for me and our team (and everyone who will be on the call and the web with us).

P.S. It’s still not to late to register, click here

I just found out that my book “Launch:Starting A New Church From Scratch” is being translated into Spanish.

Hola!

OK, now I’ve exhausted the extent of my spanish, even though I had two years in high school (in defense of Mrs. Williams, my teacher, I can read spanish much better than I can speak it!).

I don’t know yet when the translation will be available. The publisher is saying within two years – I guess that says something about the difficultly of translating what Kerrick and I wrote (I’m sure its my parts, not his, that are so problematic).

Either way, its a honor AND its a testimony to how well the book has been received in its English translation.  So my BIG THANKS to you for buying the book and spreading the word about it!

Which, btw, if you have a Launch testimony, please send it to me.  My email is in the About CLI section above or you can use the Ask Nelson button at the right —>

Adios mis amigos.

Senor Nelson Searcy

Journey Iglesia

P.S. If you are a church planter and you haven’t taken advantage of all the free resources I offer to new church leaders, just click here

I’m very excited about a new resource we have coming out in a few weeks, its called:

TIME MANAGEMENT FOR BUSY PASTORS

Here’s a sneak preview of the look.

In this resource I teach 34 time management practices (stuff you can use right now to start saving time).  I’ll let you know as soon as its available in the store.

It was unique in that I recorded it in the studio – teaching one principle at a time – instead of ‘in front of a live audience’ like most of my resources.  I was very neverous about the outcome but thanks to our super editor, it turned out great!

Also, a big shout out to Coaching Alumni Ben Hodges and his team at 4 Corners for the design.

I was looking around my office today and noticed several indispensable techie items that didn’t exist a decade ago.  Do you remember when a blackberry was a type of pie?  And an iPod was most likely something they put on the moon!

So what in the world is a “Fusion Webinar”?

For the last couple of weeks you’ve been hearing a lot about a “Fusion Webinar” that I’m doing one week from today.  The response has been incredible as tons of people have jumped on board with this first of its kind event.  At the same time, we’ve received a ton of questions.

The word “Fusion” comes from my new book on Assimilation entitled Fusion (thank you for making it a best-seller!) and it’s also the title of seminars we are doing across the country (over 2000 church leaders trained so far…with upcoming events in Houston and Atlanta).

The word “Webinar” is a new word that comes when you combine “seminar”
with the “web.”

So basically, we are doing a Fusion seminar via the web – thus, a Fusion Webinar.  OK, so that’s almost true.

Actually, the webinar will only be part ‘web.’  The other part will be by phone (think very large conference call).  Here’s how it works:

I’ll be in my office in New York City with my computer in front of me and telephone in hand.

You’ll be in your office, home or anywhere you have access to a phone and the internet.

I’ll teach the seminar by talking into the phone and showing slides and images on the computer.  At the same time, you’ll hear what I’m saying and see the same slides on your computer.  Pretty cool, huh?

Over the last several months, I’ve participated in several of these ‘webinars’ and I have to say that the experience has been ‘almost’ as good as live (not quite, but almost).

Yet, when I think of all the money I saved in travel costs (gas, flights, hotel, etc.) plus the time saved by simply listening to the webinar from my office, it was a trade off that I was willing to make.

The LIVE Fusion Seminars that we (me and my advanced coaching guys) have done have been extremely blessed and the response has been incredible!  But since we are all full-time pastors we simply can’t go everywhere and do a seminar in every city.

Thank God for technology!  With the webinar, anyone, anywhere in the US or around the world can join us for the same powerful, practical seminar.

Makes sense, right?

Now, you may be asking, “I bet you are going to water down the content for the webinar?”

The answer: NOT AT ALL.  In fact, you can actually cover more content during a webinar than you can in a live event because there’s no need for stretch breaks.  You’ll be able to get the three hour live seminar during the webinar in ONLY TWO HOURS.

And if you want to snack during the entire seminar or wear your bathrobe, that’s perfectly fine (be as comfortable as you want, just don’t email me any pictures).

“But what about asking questions?”, you ask.

You are right, I will be doing all the talking on the webinar so it’s not as interactive as I’d like but since I’m at my computer (and you are too), I’m going to set-up an email account just for the webinar and you can email me your questions and I’ll do my best to answer them as we go.

So what will I cover during the webinar?  Will it be a repeat of what’s in the book or the seminar on CD?

In some ways the webinar will be a review of the book and seminar on CD,, but repetition is the mother of learning!

Plus, over and over I hear in live events that ‘it really came alive’ during the seminar in a way that it didn’t come alive through books or CDs.

Now, to get real practical, I’m going to cover:

- The complete assimilation process necessary to turn first time guests into fully engaged members of your church
- How to WOW first time guests on their first visit
- How to collect the needed info on every first time guest who attends
- How to follow-up on every first time guest so they read what you send them
- How to get first time guests to come back and what to do (and not do!) when they come back
- How to turn regular attenders into members and so much more!

In fact, if you don’t like what I cover on the webinar, we will give you 100% of your investment back, no questions or hassles.

OK, OK, I admit, doing a webinar is risky.  The devil loves to mess with technology (he seems to be in our sound system every Sunday at The Journey).  And there’s a lot that could go wrong but . . .

Doesn’t every good thing in life come with some element of risk?

It’s risky for you to lead your church (we could all be doing something else that’s far less stressful), it’s risky to preach the gospel, it’s risky to try new things . . . but it’s the risk that BRINGS THE REWARD!

So, will you take a risk and join me on the Webinar next week?

Here’s what you need to do . . .

Just follow the link below to register.  As soon as you register our website will send you a receipt.  Then in the next few days watch for emails from me, Roy Mansfield (who leads Church Leader Insights) or my hard working assistant Lauren Faultless and we’ll send you the details for how you log-in to the webinar, what you need to do to make it successful and what to do if you have any problems.

OK, ready to sign-up?  Here’s the link:

http://www.churchleaderinsights.com/store/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=235

I look forward to being with you for this first-of-its-kind event.

Thanks for stepping out of your comfort zone.  If you have any questions, just click reply.

Your friend,

Nelson

P.S. Maybe you are thinking, “I bet we could get the entire staff to gather around the computer and watch/listen to the webinar.”

OR, maybe you’re thinking, “Maybe I could get my key volunteers to join the webinar and log-on from home or work.”  If this is what you are thinking you are on the right track!

Get as many people around one computer and speaker phone as you can or get as many people to sign-up from their home or work computers as possible.  That’s the goal!  We want to equip as many people as possible to implement an effective assimilation process at your church.

You gotta, love technology, right?  OK, I’ve gotta run, I just got a text on my blackberry and my iTunes needs updating!  LOL!

One more time, here’s the link to sign-up:

http://www.churchleaderinsights.com/store/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=235

Got this from my friend Jeff Calloway at The Bridge Church in Perry, OH.

We’ve been collecting stories from recent “Gas Buy Down” Servant Evangelism projects because we are giving away a resource on the topic.

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.” – Stephen King