All New for 2025: FREE 90-Minute Online Training for Pastors
Discover the Unique Challenges of Preaching in 2026 and Save Yourself HOURS of Planning Time!
Join Pastor Nelson Searcy for a unique event that will increase your preaching impact, lower your stress and break the week-to-week cycle!
LIVE via Zoom — 5 Times to Choose from (No Replays or Recordings Will Be Offered):
Tues., Nov. 11 at 2pm ET
Wed., Nov. 12 | 11am or 2pm ET
Thurs., Nov. 13 | 11am or 2pm ET
$99.00 Value — FREE with Your RSVP Today. Plus Receive Over $173.90 in Bonuses When You Register and Attend Your Training!
Secure Your FREE Spot Now!You’ve Never Planned a Preaching Calendar for 2026 Before!
This ALL-NEW, highly-anticipated online training will give you the guidance you need to develop one of the most important tools to grow your church — your Preaching Calendar.
Kick-start your preaching planning for 2026 and let Pastor Nelson Searcy walk you through planning your Preaching Calendar so you can see the pitfalls to avoid and possibilities to engage.
This “Revised for the New Reality” 90-minute training will save you hours of work and tons of missed opportunities, while increasing your creativity! Nelson will help you plan your preaching and give you an inside look at what his teaching team is doing.
Because there’s a better way to live, a better way to prepare, and a better way to plan!
In this brand new online training, here’s some of what you will discover:
- Â Â An inside look into The Journey's preaching calendar process and exactly how Nelson structures it to maximize 2026.
-   How the "new reality" will impact your preaching calendar — and how to address these challenges in your planning
-   The planning strategies that have allowed Nelson to increase his preaching impact — and the impact of the 4,000+ pastors he's coached — every time he steps into the pulpit.
- Â Â How a preaching calendar will help you reduce stress, improve creativity and break the week-to-week cycle!
- Â Â Sunday by Sunday, all the pitfalls and possibilities built into the 2026 calendar.
- Â Â Why it's OK to have gaps in your calendar or even a partial calendar (especially in today's climate) and how to continue to build that out as 2026 progresses.
- Â Â How to use the calendar to bring balance to your preaching and maximize the spiritual growth opportunities for your people.
- Â Â A discussion of the prayer and preparation that goes into preparing the calendar.
- Â Â When, specifically, to plan your 2026 Big Days (and when not to plan them).
- Â Â How to make the most of people's natural seasonal patterns.
- Â Â How to make Easter in 2026 more effective than ever at your church
- Â Â Which days you can expect fewer people and how to best use those days.
- Â Â And many more insights that will save you hours all year long!
About Dr. Nelson Searcy
Nelson is the Founding and Lead Pastor of The Journey Church, with locations across New York City and in Boca Raton, FL. By God’s grace, he identified and developed the Eight Systems of a Healthy Church® that he has used to coach over 5,000 churches in the US and around the world to adapt those eight systems to their unique ministry fields, resulting in great health and growth. Nelson regularly coaches pastors online and in-person through the Church Leader Insights and Renegade Pastors Network ministries that he founded.
He is the author of over 100 church growth resources and 20+ books, including The Renegade Pastor: Abandoning Average in Your Life and Ministry and Fusion: Turning First-Time Guests Into Fully-Engaged Members of Your Church. Nelson is the recipient of the prestigious Donald A. McGavran Award for Outstanding Leadership in Great Commission Research. He is a longtime student of church history, especially mastering the areas of evangelism and church growth.
Sign Up Today and Receive This Immediate Bonus:
FREE Before You Step on Stage Mini-Book from Pastor Nelson Searcy ($23.95 Value)
Preaching each week comes with tremendous responsibility…and often a great deal of fear. But thankfully there are some proven ways to channel that nervous energy in a positive direction. In this 24-page PDF mini-book, Nelson shares the principles that can both reduce the pressure you feel and make your teaching more effective. He walks through how to prepare yourself for preaching on Sunday in these 4 areas: physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally. With these methods, you’ll be able to face your time onstage with a renewed sense of peace and purpose!
And When You Attend You’ll Receive These Additional Bonuses:
FREE 2026 Preaching Planning Guide ($39.95 Value)
You will receive this guide when you attend your training time. Using this planning guide, Nelson will walk through the key 2026 dates that he used to develop his preaching calendar. He’ll guide you through the pitfalls and possibilities for 2026.
+ FREE 2026 Actual Journey Preaching Calendar ($59.95 Value)
During the training, Nelson will reveal and walk through his actual 2026 Journey Preaching Calendar including all specific dates and message titles. At the end of the training, you will receive a download of this valuable document as an update to your Preaching Planning Guide. (Note: We provide this to you not with the expectation that you do the exact same messages, but to inspire you and give you a great example for your own working preaching calendar.)
FREE Planning a One-Year Preaching Calendar Audio Download by Nelson Searcy ($49.95 Value)
When you attend and stay to the end of your training, you’ll also receive a FREE audio resource from Nelson to complement the webinar. This one-hour seminar goes deeper into the “why” behind preaching planning as well as the critical steps to creating your calendar to reduce stress and maximize your effectiveness!
Don’t Miss this Time-Sensitive 90-Minute Online Training — Spots are Limited!
ALL-NEW Planning Your 2026 Preaching Calendar, led by Pastor Nelson Searcy
This is the only pastoral training that literally walks you through the year, week by week, so you can avoid big mistakes and maximize all the growth opportunities for your church!
Senior Pastors, invite your worship leaders and everyone on your teaching team to join you — just one registration required per church!
LIVE via Zoom — 5 Times to Choose from (No Replays or Recordings Will Be Offered):
Tues., November 11th @ 2:00pm – 3:30pm ET
Wed., November 12th @ 11:00am – 12:30pm ET
Wed., November 12th @ 2:00pm – 3:30pm ET
Thurs., November 13th @ 11:00am – 12:30pm ET
Thurs., November 13th @ 2:00pm – 3:30pm ET
Note: These are the same trainings, just repeated at different times.
$99.00 Value — FREE with Your RSVP Today. Plus Receive Over $173.90 in Bonuses When You Register and Attend Your Training!
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Meet Dr. Nelson Searcy
Nelson Searcy is the Founding and Lead Pastor of The Journey Church, with locations across New York City and in Boca Raton, FL. By God’s grace, he identified and developed the Eight Systems of a Healthy Church® that he has used to coach over 5,000 churches in the US and around the world to adapt those eight systems to their unique ministry fields, resulting in great health and growth.
Nelson regularly coaches pastors online and in-person through the Church Leader Insights and Renegade Pastors Network ministries that he founded. He also leads several annual pastor in-person conferences and online training events. In ministry for more than 25 years, Nelson and his church routinely appear on lists such as “The 50 Most Influential Churches” and “The 25 Most Innovative Leaders.”
He is the author of over 100 church growth resources and 20+ books, including The Renegade Pastor: Abandoning Average in Your Life and Ministry, The Difference Maker: Using Your Everyday Life for Eternal Impact, and Fusion: Turning First-Time Guests Into Fully-Engaged Members of Your Church. Nelson is the recipient of the prestigious Donald A. McGavran Award for Outstanding Leadership in Great Commission Research.
He is a longtime student of church history, especially mastering the areas of evangelism and church growth. He divides his time between NYC and South Florida. He battled Stage 4 cancer and has been cancer-free since 2018, praise God! He has an amazing wife, Kelley, and a teenage son, Alexander, who continues to grow in so many ways.
