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 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...
by Brentwood Baptist | May 16, 2025 | Elevate Church Conference Blog
Why Aren’t People Getting Connected? You’ve got greeters at the door, a solid membership class, and plenty of volunteer needs. But if you’re still asking, “Why aren’t people sticking?”—you’re not alone. The truth? Connection doesn’t just happen...
by Brentwood Baptist | May 15, 2025 | Elevate Church Conference Blog
4 Ways to Strengthen Your Connections Ministry Churches don’t drift toward connection. In fact, the larger or busier a church becomes, the easier it is for people to slip in, slip out, and never find a place to belong. That’s why connection ministry matters so deeply....
by Brentwood Baptist | May 12, 2025 | Elevate Church Conference Blog
Fighting Isolation: Why Preschool Families Need the Church Now If you’re serving in preschool or kids ministry, you know the early years of parenting are full of change. Overnight, a family’s rhythms shift. Simple things like grabbing dinner with friends,...
by Brentwood Baptist | May 1, 2025 | Elevate Church Conference Blog
Preaching Pitfalls: 5 Common Mistakes New Preachers Make (and How to Avoid Them) It was the Sunday following the horrific events of September 11th, 2001. I had been pastoring all of five months. I was in the middle of a sermon series on Matthew’s Beautitudes. On...
