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Welcome to the Keri New Hof Leadership Podcast. It's Keri here. I hope our time together today helps you thrive in life and leadership.

So excited to have David Crowell from Church Home on with me today. And if you are wondering what's next in church, you came to the right place.

We're talking about moving beyond the mega church model. What church home is learning about reaching Gen Z and millennials and why ministry is the most challenging learning environment period.

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So David Crowell is the CEO of church home. You're like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What a church has a CEO. We actually talk about that and love his explanation for why. If you're like, hate it already, you'd be a better listen because it's fascinating.

He is the CEO for church home prior to stepping into the CEO role at church home. David began his career with an investment banking wealth management technology and has served in a variety of roles within church home.

And what was really cool, of course, we record these interviews well in advance, but I had not yet met Judah or Chelsea Smith, the lead pastors of church home.

And after I recorded this and before it aired, I had dinner with them. It was great. So I hope to have them on the show as well. They're doing some really, really fascinating things. So anyway, as a senior pastor, you probably, or maybe you're an executive pastor teaching pastor campus pastor, you get a list of questions keeping you up at night.

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So go to serve HQ dot church to learn more and help solve the volunteer challenge that so many churches are going through that serve HQ dot church. So with all that said, I am very excited to dive into this conversation with David Crowell. And by the way, I know there's a lot of business leaders listening to this is why you are so essential to the future of the church.

I really love business leaders who learn from church leaders and church leaders from business leaders. David fuses the best of both worlds. And here is my fascinating conversation with David Crowell, the CEO of church home.

David, welcome to the podcast.

Thank you, Carrie. Good to be on and functional with our technology.

Yeah, I know my goodness. We're talking about tech and church online and it took us 45 minutes to get rolling, right?

Isn't it true?

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