Book the call
Thirty minutes with someone who runs this every week at a real church. You describe what is broken; he tells you what he would do about it.
“so where’s the catch?”
Pick a timeRather type than talk? Send a note instead. The form is the fallback, not the front door. It reaches the same person.
Most consulting begins with a list of what your church lacks — staff, budget, a platform. We begin with the sermon you preached last Sunday, because it is already the raw material for everything else.
01 · Two ways in
“which one do we actually need?” If you have someone who can run it and no plan, take consulting. If you have a plan and nobody to run it, take training. If you are not sure, say so on the call — the honest answer is sometimes neither.
Consulting
An honest look at where your digital ministry actually is, one edge named as the place to start, and a roadmap sized to the staff you have — not the staff a case study had.
Training
A workshop for your staff or network that turns “we should do something digital” into a working plan people leave holding. Built to be run again without us.
02 · What the call is
In your words, not a form's. Come with the thing that is actually bothering you, not a tidy summary of it.
Specifically, for a church your size with your staffing. Including when the answer is that you don't need us.
Whether or not you hire us. That is the whole deal, and it is why there is no deck.
03 · If we keep going
A quarter is the usual unit, because that is how long one edge takes to move. Not a retainer that renews while nothing changes.
Not the four-question version on this site — the real one, with your team in the room, arguing. The disagreement is the useful part: it is usually the first time staff have said out loud which edge they think is broken.
One. Written down so it survives the next staff meeting and the person who was on holiday. A plan that names four priorities has named none.
Built against your actual people, your church management system and your platforms. Roughly an hour a week, no new hire, no new platform — because that is the constraint you are actually under.
The part most strategy work skips. Plans do not fail at the planning stage; they fail in week six when something breaks and nobody has time to think about it.
“what does it cost?” It gets scoped on the call, because a church of 120 with one volunteer and a multisite with a comms team are not the same job. There is no package on this page because there is no package.
04 · When to say no
Worth reading before you book, because it will save you the call — and because a consultant who has never turned work down is telling you something.
“a consultant telling me
when not to hire him?”
05 · Who you'd be working with
Jeff takes the first call himself. He is on staff full-time at one church in Miami and part-time at a second, running exactly the pipeline hybrid.church describes — which is the only reason it is on this site. He also leads theChurch.digital, a nonprofit movement of digital missionaries doing this work globally, and co-authored Sharing Jesus Online.
The engagement itself runs with that team, not one calendar. It is why the credential below reads team-wide — and why a ninety-day plan does not stall because one person is on a plane.
06 · Questions
It gets scoped on the first call, because a church of 120 with one volunteer and a multisite with a comms team are not the same job. There is no package on this page because there is no package. The call itself is free and is not a sales call.
If it makes sense to keep going: we run the EDGE assessment properly with your team, name one edge as the place to start with the reasoning written down, and build a ninety-day plan sized to the staff you already have. If it does not make sense, we say so on the call.
A quarter is the usual unit, because that is how long one edge takes to move. Some churches want a single strategy intensive and then to run it themselves; others keep a monthly check-in while the plan is being executed.
No, and if you had both you would probably not need us. The plans we build assume roughly an hour a week, no new hire and no new platform, because that is the constraint most churches are actually under.
Consulting produces the plan; training produces the people who can run it. If you have someone capable and no plan, take consulting. If you have a plan and nobody to run it, take training. If you are not sure, say so on the call. Both run with Jeff and the theChurch.digital team.
When the problem is not digital. If your issue is that nobody is discipling anyone in person either, or that the staff is in conflict, or that the last three initiatives died because leadership never backed them, a content pipeline will not fix it and we will tell you that.
Fair. Read the objections we hear most, or take the EDGE assessment and find out which edge is costing you the most before you spend anyone's time.
