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 223 of the podcast.

My name is Carrie Newhoff and I hope our time together today

helps you lead like never before.

Well, we are drilling down on a really important issue, both this week and next week on the podcast, and the issue is the problem that so many churches face.

So if you're a church leader or you attend a church, I want you to ask this question, okay?

If you're getting new people who are coming to your church, why is it that you seem to be stuck,

plateaued, or even not growing as fast as you should be.

That's an issue for so many churches, large churches, small churches, mid-sized churches,

and I really believe it's one of the reasons that 85% of all churches in North America never grow past 200 people.

Now sometimes you don't grow past 200 people because honestly you're not attracting any new people but I know a lot of leaders. It's like, man, we had new families again last week.

We had new families last month, and for whatever reason, we're just stuck at this number or we're growing slower than we should be.

Do you recognize that issue, that's what

we're drilling down on.

Now I've worked with thousands of churches and church leaders over the years who face this

exact problem.

And I don't know what your number is.

Maybe it's like 7,550, 225500.

You just can't seem to break it.

Well, we are doing something very special. So in this episode, I am rebroadcasting for the first time.

The number one downloaded episode of all time on this podcast. So six and a half million downloads in. No

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