Carey Nieuwhof on Leading During COVID-19: The Challenges We Are Facing and the Opportunities We Might Be Missing
Carey Nieuwhof
Carey Nieuwhof is a former lawyer and founding pastor of Connexus Church. He’s authored several best-selling books, hosts the Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast, blogs at www.careynieuwhof.com and speaks to leaders around the world about leadership, change and personal growth. His content is accessed over 1 million times a month by leaders.
“Yes, definitely get your service online, get it streamed. But that’s the starting line, not the finish line.”
Episode Links
Carey’s most recent book Didn’t See it Coming is available to be purchased. In Didn’t See it Coming, Carey shines a light on the biggest threats to the life you really want to live—and the keys to overcoming them. Didn’t See It Coming reveals the seven core issues that take people out: cynicism, compromise, disconnectedness, irrelevance, pride, burnout, and the emptiness of success. Discover how to reverse the most significant challenges to your life, closing the gap between who you are and who you’ve always longed to be.
Carey offers a variety of courses on his website, including the following:
The Art of Better Preaching Course is a 12 session video training with a comprehensive, interactive workbook that will help you create, write, and deliver better sermons. The course contains the lessons Mark Clark (lead pastor of Village Church) and Carey Nieuwhof have learned, taught, and used over decades of being professional communicators.
The High Impact Leader is a 10 session course that will show you highly practical, proven strategies on how to finally get time, energy and priorities working in your favour. Each session includes a video training and workbook that will help you personalize a plan to help you get productive and accomplish the very things you know are most important, but rarely have the time for.
To stay up to date with Carey’s blog, podcast and other resources visit www.careynieuwhof.com.
Conversation Links
How to Lead Through Crisis Course
In this episode, Carey mentions a free course that he is releasing to help pastors navigate leadership in the midst of crisis. This course is designed to help you master the art of fast-paced, clear decision making, cultivate a non-anxious presence to lead with confidence and trust, advance your digital presence to scale past physical barriers and grow your outreach and help you learn and leverage the best strategies to lead your team and congregation virtually. Click here to sign up.
ChurchPulse Weekly
In this episode, Carey also mentions a project that he is a part of called ChurchPulse Weekly. ChurchPulse Weekly was developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and is designed to give you access to a digital community even while you’re distanced from others. By signing up to be a part of their Crisis Toolkit you can track the changing needs, demands, and health of pastors with weekly results and expert analysis. You can also send customizable weekly check-ins to allow you to check in with your people, leadership teams, and the community as a whole. The best part - it is all free. Sign up today to connect with this community.
“When I check in with a staff member I always ask them how they are doing, before I ask them what they are doing.”
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Coming Up Next
Darrell Johnson
Darrell has been preaching Jesus Christ and His gospel for over 50 years. He has served a number of Presbyterian congregations in California, Union Church of Manila in the Philippines, and the historic First Baptist Church in the heart of Vancouver, Canada. Darrell has also taught preaching for Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, Regent College and Carey Theological College in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is now serving as Teaching Fellow at Regent.