Welcome to the Carrie Newhoff Leadership Podcast. A podcast all about leadership, change and personal growth.

The goal, to help you lead like never before.

In your church or in your business.

And now your host, Carrie Newhoff.

Well, hey everybody, and welcome to episode 46 of the podcast. name is Carrie Newhoff and I hope our time

together today really helps you lead like never before.

My guest today is Gina McClain and I'm really excited to have this conversation with her today.

I've known Gina for a few years and for a long time she was at Life Church in Oklahoma

with Craig Grishell and was there in the early days when like it wasn't the life church that we kind of mostly all know about today

when it was small before they had opened dozens and dozens at campuses and exploded in

growth and she was in charge of their children's ministry and then their family ministry and tells us the story of how they scaled all that and how she grew it as a leader, how she selects team members.

And then recently she moved over to Knoxville, Tennessee to be part of Faith Promise Church where she's in charge of all family ministry there and does just a fantastic job explaining some of the challenges with growth that they've had.

And one of the things I really appreciate about

Gina is and you'll find this with church positions too sometimes as as lead

pastor you know that's what I do we kind of relegate kids ministry over to the side, but I really think you need to have your best leaders in family ministry.

And when you listen to what Gina has to say, I mean, my goodness, she's just a leader on steroids steroids and I think you're really going to see

what you need in a position of family ministry to see this thing sore to be

everything it could be I always say to senior pastors all the time it's like if you ignore

family ministry just understand you're ignoring about 70% of the people that you're

speaking to on a Sunday morning and the majority of people in your

community so having an a great family ministry kids ministry student

ministry person on your team or people or an entire team in that area I think is

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