by Brentwood Baptist | Jun 30, 2025 | Elevate Church Conference Blog
What Happens When Students Go Back? You can’t build trust in a week. That’s why our student mission strategy doesn’t center on the trip—it centers on the relationship. We train our students to see missions as something they show up for again and again. Not to fix...
by Brentwood Baptist | Jun 24, 2025 | Podcast
Rethinking Church Health: From Busy Churches to Disciple-Making Movements Is your church healthy—or just busy? What if Sunday attendance wasn’t the only way to measure church health? In this episode, Elevate host Aaron Bryant sits down with Fady Al-Hagal to unpack how...
by Brentwood Baptist | Jun 20, 2025 | Elevate Church Conference Blog
How to Prepare Your Students for Missions—Before, During, and After the Trip We were never just planning trips. That might’ve been how it looked from the outside—students boarding buses, passport packets, group t-shirts. But underneath all that movement was a much...
by Brentwood Baptist | Jun 18, 2025 | Podcast
Preaching the Whole Gospel to the Whole Church: Balancing Theology and Accessibility Can a sermon be both theologically rich and crystal clear? In this episode, Elevate host Brandon Abbott sits down with Senior Pastor Jay Strother and Harpeth Heights Campus Pastor...
by Brentwood Baptist | Jun 11, 2025 | Elevate Church Conference Blog
Moving from Friend to Leader: Navigating the Shift in Ministry Roles I’ll never forget when it hit me. I was in a living room with a group of people I really liked—folks full of good ideas about where our ministry could go next. There was a lot of energy, plenty of...
