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 | Jul 31, 2022 | Teams
About a year ago we were preaching a series all about the overlaps (and yes, some tensions) between ancient wisdom and happiness science. One particular morning we were focusing on the joys of living into your unique strengths (in spiritual speak, “gifts”). We thought...
by Bill White & Brenna Rubio | Mar 30, 2022 | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Teams
Someone Brenna grabbed coffee with recently told her: “When I first came to City Church Long Beach, I thought it seemed pretty normal, like any other church. I mean, there was a welcome table, there were chairs, there was music. But then you started to preach, you and...
by Bill White & Brenna Rubio | Feb 19, 2022 | Teams
So many great questions emerged during our LEAD WITH… Out Being an A$$hole webinar this past week! Some we had a few minutes to talk over then, others we just couldn’t get to… So we thought we’d take a shot at them by doing our FIRST. EVER. INSTAGRAM. LIVE. and then...
by Bill White & Brenna Rubio | Jan 30, 2022 | Teams
We had the opportunity to talk with an insightful and impactful friend of ours on his podcast recently. We’ve known Mike Goldsworthy as a fellow local pastor and plain old good guy, but he’s known more widely for his work supporting leaders across the...
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...
