by Bill White & Brenna Rubio | Jan 20, 2023 | Soul, Teams
Leading in a hard season personally – whether it’s family stress, illness, finances, or a more existential crisis – can take its toll on any leader, and pastors aren’t exempt. We’re operating from a deficit and wondering how we’ll get through it ourselves,...
by Bill White & Brenna Rubio | Sep 1, 2022 | Soul
Churches who want their pastors to be healthy often grant them a time away, or sabbatical, of some length every five or seven years. We have both taken sabbaticals in our time at City Church of Long Beach – both were really significant for helping us stay...
by Bill White & Brenna Rubio | Jul 17, 2022 | Soul
A few weeks ago my wife told me a new word she’d heard on a podcast (On Being) that I (Bill) can’t get out of my head: micro-practices. These are simple habits that take less than a minute and yield a disproportionately positive outcome. As Krista Tippett, the podcast...
by Bill White & Brenna Rubio | Jul 3, 2022 | Soul
It’s six years ago, and I (Brenna) am sitting around a lunch table with a group of female staff pastors. They begin to discuss whether or not they’d ever want to be lead or solo pastors. Absolutely not, the consensus runs. Not because they can’t (let’s be clear), but...
by Bill White & Brenna Rubio | Jan 23, 2022 | Soul, Teams
Building potent, inclusive teams – even just taking the first stumbling, hopeful steps in that direction – is a lot of work. It’s good work, even life-giving work, as you get into it and begin to make progress. But it does take effort. And the...
by Bill White & Brenna Rubio | Jan 1, 2022 | Soul
By Brenna Rubio Reflecting on the old year felt like serious work for me the last few days – more so than usual. I scrolled through old pics, made top 10 lists, sat around a table with my family sharing about all the new things I’d experienced in 2021, the highs...
