MINISTRY OFFERINGS Leverage the power of community to change lives, in order to change the world for Christ.
About Us
For the last 15 years, Lifetogether has worked with Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, Max Lucado and thousands of other leading Pastors and bestselling authors to launch innovative video- based teachings and print curriculum. Having produced hundreds of campaigns for a variety of denominations and church movements, Lifetogether partners with churches of all sizes and stages to provide the kind of support that yield lifechanging resources. Lifetogether has provided local churches with state of the art solutions that have proven to connect entire congregations, cultivate reproducing disciples and catalyze unlimited leaders that help reach their community through community. We do this by providing the following four services:
Consulting Services The partnership between a local church and our ministry is first founded in a relationship that helps to achieve the desired goals and objectives. There are a variety of packages based on duration, features and desired objectives. While we provide full-service production only packages, most churches want to be trained on how to do this themselves over time. Whether you want to connect your entire congregation, create video curriculum for your groups or produce your first churchwide campaign, we can help you get there with our experienced team members.
Curriculum Production After publishing video curriculum for most of the major publishers, producing hundreds of video curriculum for local churches and thousands of pastors, church leaders and best-selling authors on camera, we know how to produce life-changing and church-transforming campaigns and video curriculum. Today we offer curriculum subscription series, semicustom series or full-service video curriculum packages to fit a variety of needs and budget considerations.
Campaign Design Producing and publishing a beautiful video curriculum series doesn’t necessarily mean it translates into committing your congregation into community or maximizing the momentum that comes by developing an alignment campaign. The systems, strategies, staffing and scheduling of a campaign is vital to a successful church-wide campaign. By partnering with our team, you have have the step-by-step plan to achieve the desired
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“Lifetogether Ministries is not just the name of an organization. It's what they do.” Gene Appel, Senior Pastor of Eastside Christian Church
outcomes. This includes promotional videos, marketing materials, timelines, and companion resources that help to bring greater alignment and momentum with your campaign.
Content Creation Over the years it became evident that connecting a congregation is only the first phase in our process. Today, we have produced dozens of new offerings that help to take your people deeper and wider by providing a variety of new resources, production series and creative content, which include small group worship video series, professionally published trade book, daily video devotions, small group leader training videos, and even the production of microsite series. Our primary content services provide the creation of a core video curriculum for a local church that include over a dozen candidate series to disciple and train your people. A few examples include a vision and values series, core discipleship series, membership series, connection series, stewardship series, outreach series and past sermon series that provide a timeless message for your congregation.
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Consulting Services The Consulting Programs are designed for churches that have the resources, staff and volunteers we can help train to achieve the desired outcomes with our ongoing support, expert advice and proven methodology. The Lifetogether faculty will coach your entire team on regular, live-video conference calls, weekly emails, phone support, and on-site coaching sessions. In addition, you will have full access to our training library, curriculum templates, and strategies, and we will coach you and your pastor on how to produce your own video curriculum and church-wide campaigns. CHURCH-WIDE CAMPAIGN & CURRICULUM CONSULTING PROGRAM (6-month partnership)
In this program, Lifetogether provides the coaching needed to connect 75% of the adult congregation into groups by producing one major church-wide campaign and professionally published sermon-based DVD with a companion full-color print curriculum series. This program includes one onsite visit for either pre-production planning or onsite direction of your Senior Pastor and staff/team on the day of the shoot, as well as full access to the entire suite of our curriculum templates. During our partnership, you will learn how to: - Connect 75% of your average adult attendance into off-
“The Lifetogether Coaching has proven to be the single most effective tool at attacking my ministry goals.”
campus small groups Build momentum and church-wide alignment like never before Recruit over 10% of your adults to lead a small group Launch and lead a successful in-house alignment campaign Further leverage the life, leadership and legacy of your Senior Pastor Phil Amaya, Senior Pastor Mobilize, motivate and multiply unlimited small group leaders Recruit and train a coaching network to start, sustain and strengthen your small groups in your church Recruit, train and develop a volunteer team to produce your own series (5 Core Job Descriptors) Leverage technology and media to exponentially multiply your ministry Use proven video and print curriculum templates Transform your community through community (outreach & service) Prepare, direct and coach your pastor on camera Create a campaign team to maximize your impact and influence Design and develop the marketing materials needed for your campaign
IN ADDITION, LIFETOGETHER WILL:
- Meet regularly with you and connect you to our expert faculty of writers, editors, designers, videographers and project managers
- Complete the 10-Point Lifetogether Ministry Assessment process with you - Make recommendations on equipment, staffing, and volunteer mobilization
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ONE YEAR OF COMMUNITY CONSULTING PROGRAM (12-month partnership) In addition to all aspects of the 6-month Church-wide Campaign & Curriculum Consulting Program, this program includes:
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professionally-published, video-based small group series A full 12 months of live video conference coaching with our expert faculty Two onsite visits helping to direct and produce your first two video series Training on how to create a curriculum pathway for your groups and church, exploring more advanced skills, formats and innovations Coaching on how to produce your first off-campus worship series with your worship team Coaching on how to produce a “starter” series, “sustainer” series, and “strengthener” curriculum series Coaching on how to connect over 100% of your congregation into community in one year Coaching on how to stage and shoot a professionally published curriculum
LEARN HOW TO:
- Determine and develop your 7 Core Curriculum Series - Spiritually reproduce disciples and multiply groups - Produce and publish weekly sermon-based video and print curriculum well beyond the duration of -
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our partnership Repurpose your existing sermon series and produce a small group curriculum library serving your groups for years to come Produce curriculum based on any past weekend sermon series, upcoming sermon series, trade book, capital campaign, ministry passion, core values series, etc. Produce weekly sermon-based video and print curriculum that launches groups right off the weekend service, 52 weeks a year Produce a daily video devotional strategy and curriculum strategy, and reproduce your video content for social media Convert any sermon series, or collection of series, into a published trade book to be aligned with a church-wide campaign for your church and beyond Create a decentralized video-based oneyear small group training program to further encourage and equip your small group leaders and those who lead them Create step-by-step and week-by-week, 12-18 month timelines to make these initiatives happen Select, purchase and use the equipment needed to produce your own series
“Brett challenged me to go further than I thought I could, in relation to recording small group curriculum.” Greg Surratt, Senior Pastor 5
Curriculum Production VIDEO CURRICULUM FEATURES
For churches large and small, Lifetogether works with the pastor, leadership, and creative arts team to create a complete package of small group video curriculum. This might include one pastor teaching to the screen or a “Town Hall” with an audience, plus live worship, testimonies, leader training, video devotionals, and more.
TOW N Hall: Multiply the energy and effectiveness of the video teaching with this new format! Instead of the traditional “talking head” approach, the Town Hall gathers a few dozen audience members to hear a leader or a small group of leaders share a short teaching time and then participate by asking questions and interacting.
MASTER Teaching:
WORSHIP Experience:
The primary feature of every video series is the master teaching. This can be done by the senior pastor, the pastor and their spouse, another teaching duo, or a team of staff members.
We can produce and direct a worship experience with your team, your musicians, and the songs that connect with your people. It’s a great resource for small groups, house churches, multisites and microsites!
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TESTIMONIES & Stories:
CURRICULUM Preview:
CURRICULUM Host:
Key leaders and volunteers can share their stories--great for both weekend worship and small group experiences. These testimonies illustrate the teaching and bring the message to life.
A 60-90 second curriculum preview produced much like a movie trailer helps recruit leaders and rally the congregation.
At the opening of each session, a host or co-host welcome the group and introduce the session. These can be done by one person or by multiple staff.
LEADERSHIP Training:
PROMOTIONAL Video:
VIDEO Devotionals:
We’ll work with your leaders to script, shoot, and produce short videos that can equip others to start a group and lead it well. We also have a half-dozen video training packages for your new and existing leaders. We will even produce a Town Hall edition of small group leader training.
From “behind-the-scenes” trailers and “reluctant leader” videos to movie-like previews and blooper reels, we can create a variety of resources to build excitement for the campaign in your congregation.
In addition to weekly video Bible study and print devotions in the written curriculum, we’ll also develop daily video devotionals with your people telling their stories. This can involve up to 30 more people as a great addition to any curriculum or campaign.
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Curriculum Production SHOOT LOCATIONS
From the beach to your backyard, our professional crews can shoot your project anywhere!
LIFETOGETHER STUDIO
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WORSHIP CENTER
CITY STREETS
TOWN HALL
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CALIFORNIA SHOOT
CHURCH CAMPUS We’ve shot projects in huge cities, in a barn in the country, on the beach, in chapels, even on a bike trail while the pastor cycles through his favorite course!
HOME SETTING We can transform the worship center stage of any church into a beautiful set, or turn a large home into a cozy studio for the day. Wherever you want to shoot your project, we can make it happen--and make it look amazing.
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PA S TO R ’ S PA S S I O N
Curriculum Production COLOR CURRICULUM FEATURES
Ninety-nine percent of small group curriculum is a simple, black and white layout with a focus on words instead of design. At Lifetogether we have biblically-sound, dynamic, and well-written content combined with beautiful, engaging design that rivals anything else on the market. Our approach to written curriculum can also serve as a tool your people can use to invite others to church and to the small group, highlighting your ministries and your mission. The high-quality look of this curriculum, combined with the professionally-written content, draws the attention of your church members and launches every study with immediate credibility.
BOOK Companion:
YEARBOOK Style:
Lifetogether produces curriculum based on any book or existing sermon series by a senior pastor. Lifetogether can also ghostwrite a book based on existing sermon series for the pastor.
Well beyond any basic, black and white study guide, our curriculum features hundreds of high resolution, congregational photos directly from the lives and ministries of the congregation. This “school yearbook� style curriculum gets the buzz and buy-in that not many programs can achieve.
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Curriculum Production FULLY CUSTOM CURRICULUM PRODUCTION
BASIC CURRICULUM PACKAGE Video Curriculum
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Full service 4-6 session video production Onsite direction of your pastor on the day of the shoot Includes director and 2 camera operators Basic lighting and multiple camera production Up to 2 locations Standard leader training videos by our team incorporated in the DVD 1 series Preview for promotional use
Print Curriculum - 90-page custom black & white or color print curriculum - Custom writing by our team using our proven study guide templates - Congregational photography fully integrated into a template design layout - Custom Foreword - Senior Pastor Welcome page - Custom cover design with branding for pastor and church - Full color DVD menus with integrated photography - Resale ready curriculum including ISBN number and barcode - Single use of Lifetogether curriculum license
DELUXE CURRICULUM PACKAGE Video Curriculum
- Full service 4-6 session video production - Video-based Host segments by your staff - Customized Leadership Training by your team incorporated in the DVD
- Collaboration of the script writing for all of your teaching sessions
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shoot Includes director, producer, and 2 camera operators Half-ton lighting truck and crew Up to 3 locations 1 series Preview for promotional use 3 recruitment videos: one for the core, congregation and community 1 Behind-the-Scenes promotional preview
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Print Curriculum - 120+ page full-color magazine style print curriculum - Custom writing by our team in our proven study guide templates - 40-page Appendix features for leaders and groups - Congregational photography fully integrated into a template design layout - Custom Foreword and Endorsements Page - Senior Pastor Welcome page - Custom cover design with branding for pastor and church - Full color DVD menus with integrated photography - Resale ready curriculum including ISBN number and barcode - Rights to all intellectual property and assets
PREMIUM CURRICULUM PACKAGE
 Video Curriculum Full service 4-8 session video production Script writing by our team for all your teaching sessions Fully-scripted video-based Host segments by your sta Customized Leadership Training by your team incorporated in the DVD Custom congregational testimonies in single or medley formats to accompany each teaching - Welcome video segment from Senior Pastor - Onsite direction of your pastor on the day of the shoot - Includes director, producer, and 3 camera operators - 1-ton lighting truck and crew - Cinema quality cameras - Up to 4 locations - 1 series Preview for promotional use - 3 recruitment videos: one for the core, congregation and community - 1 Behind-the-Scenes promotional preview - 1 additional weekend promotional preview - 6 social media clips for weekly promotional use
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Print Curriculum
- 120+ page full-color magazine style print curriculum
- Custom writing by our team using our proven study guide templates
- 40-page Appendix features for leaders and -
groups Congregational photography fully integrated into a custom design layout Custom Foreword and Endorsements Page Senior Pastor Welcome page Custom cover design with branding for pastor and church Full color DVD menus with integrated photography Resale ready curriculum including ISBN number and barcode Rights to all intellectual property and assets Digital edition of the print curriculum 12
Town Hall Production Town Hall teaching is one of our latest breakthroughs and most popular teaching formats. Below are dierent ways we can do a Town Hall teaching and curriculum production.
Propel Women
Phoenix First Assembly
Celebration Church
Rock Church 13
BASIC TOWN HALL PACKAGE Video Curriculum - Full service 4-6 sessions video production - Table Talk Style with 5-10 individuals around a table - Teleprompted Host intro leading into the teaching - Standard leader training videos by our team incorporated in the DVD - Onsite direction on the day of the shoot - Includes director, producer and multiple camera operators - Basic lighting kit and multiple camera production - 1 series Preview for promotional use Print Curriculum - 90-120+ page custom black & white or color print curriculum - Custom writing by our team using our proven study guide templates - Congregational photography fully integrated into a template design layout - Custom Foreword - Senior Pastor Welcome page - Custom cover design with branding for pastor and church - Full color DVD menus with integrated photography - Resale ready curriculum including ISBN number and barcode - Single use of Lifetogether curriculum license
Shadow Mountain Community Church
Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship
Northview Church
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DELUXE TOWN HALL PACKAGE Video Curriculum
- Full service 4-6 sessions video production - Living Room Style in a home with 20-30 people - Conversational Q&A or testimonies from the audience - Teleprompted Host intro leading into the teaching - Customized Leadership Training by your team incorporated into the DVD - Collaboration of the script writing for all of your teaching sessions - Onsite direction on the day of the shoot - Includes director, producer and multiple camera operators - Half-ton Lighting Truck and crew - 1 series Preview for promotional use - 3 recruitment videos: one for the core, congregation and community - 1 Behind-the-Scenes promotional preview Print Curriculum - 120+ page full-color magazine style print curriculum - Custom writing by our team in our proven study guide templates - 40-page Appendix features for leaders and groups - Congregational photography fully integrated into a template design layout - Custom Foreword and Endorsements Page - Senior Pastor Welcome page - Custom cover design with branding for pastor and church - Full color DVD menus with integrated photography - Resale ready curriculum including ISBN number and barcode - Rights to all intellectual property and assets
PREMIUM TOWN HALL PACKAGE Video Curriculum - Full service 4-8 sessions video production - Large Studio or Stage Style with 30-50 people - Conversational Q&A or testimonies from the audience - Teleprompted Host intro leading into the teaching - Can include single speaker or a panel of speakers - Script writing by our team for all of your teaching sessions - Customized Leadership Training by your team incorporated in the DVD - Welcome video segment from Senior Pastor - Onsite direction of your pastor on the day of the shoot - Includes director, producer, and 3 camera operators - 1 Ton Lighting Truck and crew - Cinema quality cameras
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Print Curriculum - 120+ page full-color magazine style print curriculum - Custom writing by our team in our proven study guide templates - 40-page Appendix features for leaders and groups - Congregational photography fully integrated into a custom design layout - Custom Foreword and Endorsements Page - Senior Pastor Welcome page - Custom cover design with branding for pastor and church - Full color DVD menus with integrated photography - Resale ready curriculum including ISBN number and barcode - 1 series Preview for promotional use - Rights to all intellectual property and assets - 3 recruitment videos: one for the core, congregation and community - 1 Behind-the-Scenes promotional preview - 1 Additional weekend promotional preview - 6 weekly social media clips for promotional use - Digital edition of the print curriculum
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Worship Series First we changed small groups by bringing the teaching pastor into a living room with video. Then we changed groups with our Town Hall strategy that replaces a “talking head” approach with an informal, interactive dialogue between the pastor and the people. Now we’re revolutionizing groups with the addition of worship.
BASIC WORSHIP PACKAGE
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Full-service production of 4 songs 4 camera production Small Lighting Kit 4 channel mix including, but not limited to, an acoustic guitar, djembe, keyboard, and vocal mics Acoustic band (without a full drum set) Small community of worshipers Subtitled lyrics in post-editing
DELUXE WORSHIP PACKAGE
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Full-service production of up to 6 songs 4-5 camera production Lighting truck 5-8 channel mix for all instruments Medium-sized band (without a full drum set) Mid-sized community of worshipers Subtitled lyrics in post-editing
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PREMIUM WORSHIP PACKAGE
- Full-service production of up 8 songs (can do 12 songs, price may vary)
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5-6 camera production 1-ton lighting truck 5-8 channel mix for all instruments Full band (including a full drum set) Large community of worshipers Subtitled lyrics in post-editing
As part of our video production, our team can coach, direct, and produce a complete worship set with the people, instruments, and setting of your choice, and package it as a full worship experience your groups can use to draw closer to God and to each other. Some groups will use the songs on DVD to open with worship, others will use it to close their time together, and some churches are even using the complete package to start house churches and launch new campuses!
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LifeTogether Packages CAMPAIGN PACKAGE 6-month Campaign, Curriculum, and Coaching Program
Our most popular package, because it includes everything you need to connect your entire congregation to community in 6 months by producing a major church wide campaign, video curriculum and full color study guide. This package includes everything in the 6-Month Consulting Program and a single Fully Custom Premium Curriculum. Features include:
- All items outlined in the 6-Month Consulting Program - All items outlined in the Premium Curriculum -
Complete suite of Campaign Promotional Resources to build momentum, such as flyers, invites, banners, posters, registration cards, bookmarks, etc. Onsite visit for production and strategic planning Church-wide assessment surveys, campaign design, and timeline planning
SHADOW PROGRAM One Year to Community Consulting and Full Service Curriculum and Campaign Production Most churches don’t want to launch a single campaign. They want to start, sustain, and strengthen the groups that they have launched. This allows you to build on the momentum that was started during the initial campaign, in order to get well north of 100% of your adult congregation into groups. That’s why we have the Shadow Program, where we could help a church produce 3 or 4 full service curriculum packages in a one year journey to community. Their team not only starts the year with us but also shadows our team all year long through the development of 3 major curriculum and campaign productions. While it’s our most expensive program, it’s definitely the most effective. By the end of the year, most churches are ready to continue producing their own curriculum annually or even more frequently, all while having a foundation that they can build on.
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All items outlined in the 12-Month Consulting Program All items outlined in the Deluxe Town Hall All items outlined in the Deluxe Worship All items outlined in the Fully Custom Premium Curriculum All items outlined in the Fully Custom Deluxe Curriculum Maintain shoot in three unique formats from the beach, home, city streets, on location, worship center stage, etc. or all in one consistent setting and motif These can be produced as a family with common branding or as individual stand-alone series Onsite visit for production and strategic planning Church-wide assessment surveys, campaign design, and timeline planning 50% discount on any additional curriculum if done as a 2nd day shoot with any of the 3 series within this package
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TRAIN-THE-TRAINER PACKAGE (12-month partnership) Perfect for the church with a strong team well equipped with a wide array of video production resources and still has some capacity to make this happen. In most churches they will shift priorities of both team and timing in order to adapt for our partnership but in most cases we will produce the first campaign and curriculum and then we’ll produce the second one together and then the third one we will simply coach and consult their team on the next generation of production and creative organization and new curriculum design. This is designed for the classic “we do it you watch, we do it together, you do it and we watch”. This package includes the standard 12 month consulting program and at least 3 different series on our train the trainer format.
The choice of the 3 different series can be negotiated based on your needs (price may vary accordingly). We usually like to introduce churches to a wide variety of formats, productions, and proven strategies for developing curriculum with limited time and resources. All additional curriculum can be discounted significantly if done on a 2nd day shoot with any of the 3 series within this package. Features include:
- All items outlined in the 12-Month Consulting Program - All items outlined in the Deluxe or Premium Town Hall (your -
choice) All items outlined in the Deluxe Worship All items outlined in the Fully Custom Premium Curriculum All items outlined in the Fully Custom Deluxe Curriculum Maintain shoot in three unique formats from the beach, home, city streets, on location, worship center stage, etc. or all in one consistent setting and motif These can be produced as a family with common branding or as individual stand-alone series Onsite visit for production and strategic planning Church-wide assessment surveys, campaign design, and timeline planning 50% discount on any additional curriculum if done as a 2nd day shoot with any of the 3 series within this package
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COMPLETE CAMPAIGN PACKAGE 6-month consulting, worship production and Town Hall curriculum production
This package is one our most popular packages, including a mix of our latest breakthroughs in teaching and house worship, with a series of live coaching that helps strategically maximize the impact of the two. Churches can select any one of the 3 Town Hall production formats from basic, deluxe, or premium. Prices vary based off of which production but the package price offers a significant savings.
CALIFORNIA PACKAGE The California Package can be your choice of the Fully Custom Basic, Deluxe, or Premium Curriculum Production or Semi-Custom Curriculum Productions shot in California at a discounted rate. This package includes your lodging and meal expenses once you land in Southern California.
- All items in your choice of Fully Custom or Semi-Custom Curriculum Production
- Maintain shoot in any of our California locations including: Sunny California beaches, downtown streets, California mountains, beautiful deserts, intimate worship chapels, or even in Saddleback’s private studio that we helped create.
MICROSITE PRODUCTION AND COACHING PACKAGE
We will use the curriculum to launch your first Microsite campus produced in the small venue production. The 6-month combined coaching package will help you learn the who, what, where, when and hows of launching your first wave of Microsite campuses. The package includes six month coaching and one full service live production. The production package can be produced in the basic, deluxe, or premiere premium production format. In addition, it could either be a live launch, dry run production or train the trainer format.
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Leader Training Series We have trained more than half a million small group leaders. We've developed resources that have trained more than half a million small group leaders, because trying to bring people back for centralized leadership training is near impossible and even getting return calls can be difficult! So where do we go from here? At Lifetogether we’ve embraced the fact that trying to train new and existing small group leaders requires a decentralized strategy. We offer a variety of different video productions to help churches recruit, train, and equip small group leaders.
SMALL GROUP LEADER TOWN HALL TRAINING SERIES The small group pastor and key staff sit center stage with 20-40 small group leaders in a circle around them. The pastor trains small group leaders using a small group format, captured on video to multiply the impact across your entire leadership team.
BASIC SMALL GROUP LEADER TRAINING SERIES Four to eight small group leader training sessions hosted by the small group pastor or senior staff, often including testimonies of small group leaders and always featuring collaboratively–written scripts. Shot at the location of your choice.
SMALL GROUP LEADER INTERVIEW TRAINING We will produce a 12 to 24-session interview format video series with a small group pastor and group leaders. This interactive series can also include other pastors and key leaders for church-wide alignment.
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ONE YEAR OF LEADERSHIP TRAINING SERIES
A 24 to 52-week training series shot in one day, taught by the senior leadership team and other key influencers in the church. These short video training segments will share skills, stories, and strategies with new and existing small group leaders. These sessions are often successful when co-taught by the small group pastor and senior pastor.
CUSTOM SMALL GROUP UNIVERSITY
Lifetogether has proven scripts and strategies we can share with your church. Customize them and make them your own, then we’ll shoot and produce the video. This training includes basic, intermediate, and advanced levels and includes a companion print study guide with downloadable and digital training materials. We have content for not only basic to advanced leader training but coach/supervisor training as well.
LEADERSHIP RECRUITMENT VIDEOS
Lifetogether can produce three multimedia, story-driven recruitment videos designed to be played in your weekend services or sent in an e-blast to capture new small group leaders throughout the year. Reluctant leader testimonies from your existing leaders, key staff members and senior pastor will also help recruit new group leaders. This resource is perfect for recruiting new leaders before significant campaigns!
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A La Carte Options PRINTING AND DUPLICATION SERVICES Lifetogether can broker all of your printing and duplication needs. Client is responsible for all printing and duplication costs.
DAILY VIDEO DEVOTIONALS 30 video devotions produced as a companion to your curriculum or campaign to create buzz around the series and increase engagement. See sample: https:// vimeo.com/channels/808463
MOBILE EDITION We can create a digital edition of your video and print series instead of a printed curriculum series or in addition to it.
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Group Coaching FORMAT: Our coaching programs are designed as live web-based video conference sessions, similar to a webinar format, with a group of other churches similar in stage and size as yours. Most groups will range between 6-12 churches to allow for maximum interaction between attendees. Each of the programs will be held twice a month (dates confirmed upon registration) and will meet for 6 or 12 months. Each session will meet for approximately 60 minutes each. In between each of the sessions there will be assigned reading, videos to review, and group exercises to complete. Lifetogether will bring a variety of faculty onto each call based on the subject matter and this will align with who you invite for your staff team: • Each church will complete an online ministry assessment and church survey to maximize the impact of the program. • Each church will participate in a private team consultation to review the findings of the assessment and develop a personalized program. For those of you who learn best in community and have a limited budget, this program is more affordable than our consulting partnerships. The nature and focus of the discussions are integrated with the common challenges facing other churches of similar size and stage. PRICING: We offer a number of programs at varying costs based on the size and stage of your church. To learn more about the pricing and timing of our next coaching group, simply go online or call today for a free consultation & pricing. Space is limited so call today!
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SMALL GROUP CURRICULUM PRODUCTION & PUBLISHING COACHING This program is designed for churches that are looking to produce their first and/or "best" in-house church-wide video curriculum series. Through each of our sessions, you will learn the proven strategies on how to produce professionally published video curriculum that will literally transform how you do church. Program Features: The 7 steps to producing professionally published curriculum Discover dozens of unique video formats & creative settings 5 proven strategies to produce weekly video curriculum Learn cost-efficient and time saving techniques to produce in-house video and print curriculum • Ways to transform past sermons series into small group studies • Produce the 12 core curriculum every congregation needs/wants • Some of the new, innovative, and breakthrough production formats including the town hall production, home-based shoots and unique on-location settings • • • •
SMALL GROUP MINISTRY & CAMPAIGN COACHING This program is designed for churches wanting to further leverage the power of community to transform lives by producing video based curriculum that helps to commit 100% of your congregation into community. The content is a group edition of our one-on-one on-site consulting program. Program Features: • Design and develop the marketing materials needed to promote your campaign • Launch and lead your most successful in-house alignment campaign ever! • Recruit and train campaign team to maximize your impact and influence • Leverage technology and media to exponentially multiply your impact • Further leverage the life, leadership, and legacy of your Senior Pastor • Connect 75%-125% of your average adult attendance into off campus small groups • Mobilize, Motivate, and Multiply unlimited small group leaders • Recruit and train a coaching network to start, sustain, and strengthen your small groups
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LIFETOGETHER NEW & NEXT COACHING This program is designed for experienced Pastors, weekend producers and progressive church leaders wanting to know what is "New & Next" in leveraging the power of community to change how church is done. Program Features: Accelerate your leadership discipleship by 100%-200% over time How to mobilize 20%- 30% of your congregation to not just “be” but “make” disciples Introduce the next generation of the “HOST” strategy called the “3G” or "G.R.O.W. Strategy” Help your groups go deeper & wider by producing a variety of target curriculum Discover how to do a capital campaign or stewardship alignment service that multiplies your weekly total giving • Learn how to produce the next generation of mid-week worship on-campus, online, & in homes • • • • •
MICROSITE COACHING This program is designed for churches who are looking for the next revolution in taking the church to the community: Microsites. Discover how to launch and lead a wave of microsite campuses regionally, nationally, and globally. Program Features: • Learn the 7 steps in preparing to launch your first microsite campus • Learn how to launch remote small groups, potential church plants, and your first wave of microsite campuses • Discover the 5 criteria for launching successful microsite campuses • Learn how to shoot, stage, and build sets that naturally flow in and out of the teaching for a microsite campus • Learn the initial, incremental, and scalable ways to staff and stage your microsite campus production • Learn how to leverage the best of video driven, volunteer led church experiences • Discover the potential and pathway to starting a small venue microsite campus based off of your weekend service and conversation production
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CONVERSATION SERVICE COACHING This program is designed to help churches launch their first conversation service in order to reach more people on the weekend, engage the next generation, and launch groups 52 weeks a year Program Features:
• Understand the process and pathway for launching a conversation • • • • •
service in your church Evaluate the 7 primary factors of producing a conversation service Discover the initial, incremental, and scalable ways to staff and stage your conversation service production Learn how to integrate the best of a live weekend service and a small group experience Discover the half dozen ways to repurpose the footage for the weekend production and online experience Learn how to build a staff-forward or volunteer team to produce your service 52 weeks a year
• Learn how to produce "worship in the round" that can be used for small groups, conversation services, online campuses, and microsite campuses.
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"church service in the round" Discover proven ways to save money on equipment and time in production Learn how to catalyze groups 24/7 off of your new forward or existing online experience Transform your online streaming service into a more engaging and more effective individual experience Learn what, when, and how to secure funding for launching your first service Learn how to launch and lead fully synchronized Facebook Live service 52 weeks a year Learn how to engage an online Facebook Live audience, from Senior Pastor to the people watching
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Specialty Offerings SEMI-CUSTOM CURRICULUM PRODUCTION In our Semi-Custom Curriculum Production, you can personalize any of our existing curriculum and produce a customized companion video curriculum to package it as your own. Or you can choose a published print curriculum off-the-shelf, and we can produce a customized companion video curriculum to package it for your church. You can personalize any of our existing curriculum and produce a customized companion video curriculum to package it as your own. You could even choose a published print curriculum off-the-shelf, and we can produce a customized companion video curriculum to package it for your church. All you need to do is purchase the print curriculum for your church to use with the customized DVD by you and your staff!
WEEKEND SERVICE CURRICULUM SUBSCRIPTION PROGRAM Most churches we work with produce sermon-based small group questions from the weekend message. Weekend service curriculum is simply the next step for your groups. With our expertise in producing video based curriculum, we simply follow a 3-step process in developing weekend sermon-based video curriculum. First, you send us the video footage (via hard drive or Dropbox) that was captured from the weekend series. Then, we create an edited 10-12 minute small group edition of your weekend message. Finally, we write a small group series based on that edition and lay the series out in one of our existing full-color designs, including a few of your congregational photos, and we send you the print and DVD masters, ready for duplication. You can choose a past sermon series that we can turn into a small group edition DVD and print curriculum, along with a small group curriculum library. This could be produced all in a single day, following our seven step process for producing a video curriculum library for your groups, a cost savings for sure and a very effective use of your pastor’s time and past sermon series. Your groups will all be on the same page, and it’s a great chance for everybody to study the same material. You can simply send us your sermons monthly, quarterly, or annually and we will convert them to small group editions within a week's time for you to use in your groups. At the end of this series or anytime in the future we can produce a professionally published video and color print curriculum series that your group will use for years to come. 29
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Curriculum every church will produce in the years to come. There are certain topics every church needs to focus on at some point, and the best way to ensure a consistent message is by working through the same study, with the same teaching, at the same time. Lifetogether’s expertise in developing these twelve types of curriculum campaigns can shorten your learning curve and help you share your heart and your vision by working with you to develop your own customized video teaching and print curriculum that includes testimonies from your people, teaching from your pastor, and worship from your creative arts team.
APOLOGETICS / SEEKER DISCIPLESHIP / SPIRITUAL FORMATION
SENIOR PASTOR'S BOOK
OUTREACH / MISSIONS
MEMBERSHIP (101 – 401)
ANNUAL CHURCHWIDE CAMPAIGN
CAPITAL CAMPAIGN / STEWARDSHIP
SMALL GROUP LEADER TRAINING
SPIRITUAL GIFTS & SERIES
SMALL GROUP CONNECTION SERIES
MISSION, VISION AND VALUES MARRIAGE & PARENTING SERIES
We’ll produce your first three and show you how to do the rest!
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Seasonal Offerings FALL CAMPAIGN AND CURRICULUM CONSULTING PACKAGE First, introducing our Fall campaign curriculum and consulting package. As you well know, Spring is here, but Fall is quickly coming. Most churches want to leverage the Fall season more than any other season. As a result, the summer months are our busiest times, so we are extending a discount to a handful of churches who are willing and able to secure productions and a partnership over the next 30 to 60 days. Because our openings are more available during the Spring, we are able to be more flexible on our pricing and production. If you’re interested, this is an excellent offering for those churches who know they’re going to produce a Fall campaign, but would like to explore a more cost effective approach and the opportunity to do more planning as this season approaches. This package contains the Campaign Package, which you can reference on page 19 of this Ministry Offerings packet. Features include:
- All items outlined in the 6-Month Consulting Program - All items outlined in the Premium Curriculum
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Complete suite of Campaign Promotional Resources to build momentum, such as flyers, invites, banners, posters, registration cards, bookmarks, etc. Onsite visit for production and strategic planning Church-wide assessment surveys, campaign design, and timeline planning
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LIFETOGETHER PUBLISHING PROGRAM We are partnering with a handful of local churches this next season, offering a special price and package for churches to produce, for the first time or for the next time, their own curriculum production. This will be done as an in-house, forty day-like curriculum that is based off of your Senior pastor’s existing teaching ministry. These curriculum are proven to be and bring the “Wow factor” to any congregation. Our past partnerships with some of the largest and fastest growing churches in the country have shown exponential results, getting north of 75% of a congregation connected through these campaigns. We understand that the cost and resources required can be exorbitant at times, and not every church feels that they are at the right stage to pursue this type of production and curriculum. This is why we are introducing the Lifetogether Publishing Program, where we bring in our Lifetogether team of experts writers, producers, designers, etc to partner with your team in producing your own curriculum. By utilizing our equipment and staffing, the burden of cost and resources does not fall entirely on your ministry. Other great features of this program include our help to develop a full color curriculum study guide, promotional clips for the weekend service, strategies on effective staffing models, and coaching on how to produce video curriculum on a weekly basis.
SMALL GROUP PUBLISHING OFFER For a limited time, we are rolling out a Small Group Publishing Offer for churches and ministries. This offer is another great, affordable way in which we would partner together, 50/50, to share the cost of producing, publishing, and distributing your curriculum. Instead of having to go to a third-party publisher or purchasing curriculum directly from them, you can have your own! Our team will come alongside churches of any stage or size to produce your first video curriculum at a significantly less cost or even no cost. After production, your congregation can purchase the published materials from us and even make it available to other churches in your network on our platform. We’ll produce them in both physical and online formats for you as well. There is no time like the present to produce your own in-house video curriculum series, instead of purchasing curriculum from other publishers and authors. Your congregation wants to hear your pastor, over any other pastor, and will respond to your church’s calls to both lead, serve and participate in your custom in-house campaign.
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A Great First Step THE LIFETOGETHER MINISTRY ASSESSMENT PROGRAM IS A PERFECT FIRST STEP TO EVALUATING YOUR CHURCH'S “READINESS" FOR A CHURCH-WIDE CAMPAIGN. All fees are credited to any future program.
Over the last 5 years we have developed a process that has helped us serve the churches that we work with. It includes an evaluation of unique ministry areas to help determine if, how, and what it might look like for us to partner together. The major categories are:
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Small Group Ministry Models Team Depth and Bandwidth Volunteer Staffing Strategies Curriculum Writing Expertise and Support Video Production Equipment Connections and Assimilation Strategies Promotional and Marketing Methods Training and Development of Leaders Creative and Design Support Multimedia Staffing and Volunteers Proven Sustainability Strategies Funding Options Master Scheduling and Timelines Publishing and Resource Sales Brainstorming Possible Series New Models to Accomplish Everything
The process helps us engage and explore scenarios, offerings, and possible resources that could be developed. In addition, we address several topics in more detail that we could make significant contribution towards and actually help in the execution of.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU!
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Next Steps To start any of these programs, give us a call and we can give you a quote and get you enrolled today! For more information or to hear more about these programs, join us for a briefing in the next week or two. Ask us for details for the next briefing!
Call the Lifetogether team at (949) 284-8424 or email brett@lifetogether.com today!
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