About Author
Brett's writing has been featured by outlets like Outreach Magazine, Church Tech Today, and the Unstuck Church Group. Brett's courses on church marketing have over 10,000 students in 143 countries. Brett is also the author of The Digital Ministry: Reaching the ends of the earth without leaving home and is the marketing director at Clickmill.co. Brett has consulted with ministry leaders internationally, helping them create custom marketing strategies that get results. After four years of Christian college, Brett worked at Christian discipleship schools, Christian camps, and was a Youth Ministry Directory at the Salvation Army. He later spent six years in sales and marketing. Through Clickmill, Brett helps ministry leaders implement effective digital marketing strategies so they can reach more people, more effectively. Brett and his wife Siomara live in Honolulu, HI.
Brett’s Journey & Vision
- Went to ministry school
- Learned about the bible/ how to run a youth ministry
- Got a job after 4th year of college
- Saw no growth, despite 4 years of ministry training
- The kids did not show up to hear me teach about the bible
- Kids did show up for events, but they didn’t come back
- Not only did I not grow, I also discovered that working in the chuch is like a massive bolder with the word “ministry” painted on it is placed directly on your shoulders – and it was crushing me.
- I was then told to carry the boulder to the top of that mountain.
- I was stressed, overwhelmed, overworked, underprepared, and I knew that if something didn’t change, that boulder would become to heavy to carry.
- There must be a better way to do ministry.
- One day, I got a little too fed up with some of my older teens boys misbehaving and I broke all off the your ministry rules and I took them to lunch and had a heart to heart where I asked them some hard questions. I shouldered them with the responsibility of their lives and told them to get to WORK.
- I told them I was kicking them off the island (they had never left their town or island) and they were going to get a summer job.
- No sooner had I dont this did they become rolemodels in the youth ministry. They showed up at my house on saturday s for life skills, knowing I would ask them to leave if they goofed around. One of those 4 guys is now the youth ministry director at that very same church. The others spen the next couple of years working at ministries in california and in alaska.
- Then I had an epiphany. I saw tremendous growth, but it wasn’t the result of my hope, or faith, or prayer (maybe in some inderct sense). It wasn’t the result of a caffeine field locking or a water day. The growth came when I took action and shouldered young men with responsibility.
- Growth is not a function of prayer, or faith, or hope. Growth is a direct result of natural revelation.
- In the next video, we will be looking deeper into what this means, how it works, and what you can expect from the rest of this course.