If you are looking for a speaker who understands bi-vocational ministry from the inside, not just as a topic, I have been doing it for most of my adult life. I have worked in IT since 1997 and been in ministry since 1998. For years those two things ran in parallel. They still do.
That background shapes everything I bring to a conference or training event. When I talk about bi-vocational ministry, I am not describing something I read about. I am describing something I have lived, and something I still live most Sundays when I preach at small churches across rural Indiana.
What I Speak On for Bi-Vocational Ministry Events
The Bi-Vocational Pastor’s Survival Guide
Practical strategies for pastors who work a secular job and lead a church. Time management, boundary-setting, preventing burnout, and building a ministry that does not depend on you being available 24 hours a day.
Technology for the Bi-Vocational Pastor
What technology actually helps a bi-vocational pastor and what just adds more to manage. Here are the tools that save real time, the ones that are not worth the learning curve, and how to think about AI tools as a pastor with limited hours and no IT staff.
Related resource: The Bi-Vocational Pastor and Technology: What Helps, What Hurts, and What to Ignore
Youth Ministry in Small Churches
How to build a real youth ministry with 3 to 15 students, no budget, and volunteer leaders who have full-time jobs. This session draws on 15 years of rural youth ministry experience and the frameworks in Rural Youth Ministry: Expanded Second Edition.
Who Books This Session
Denominational gatherings, bi-vocational pastor networks, rural ministry conferences, and church leadership retreats. If your event serves pastors who work a secular job, I can speak to that experience directly.
Free resources for bi-vocational pastors are available at MinistryPlace.net, including time management guides, legal and tax resources, and church-pastor agreement templates. The Rural Think Tank Podcast also covers bi-vocational ministry regularly.
See the Speaking page for the full topic list, or download the Press Kit for booking information.
About the Author
Brent Lacy has been in IT since 1997 and ministry since 1998. He serves as Strategic Advisory Manager at Core Managed IT Services, leading a team of vCIOs. He is the founder of RewiredMSP.com, MinistryPlace.net, and the Rural Think Tank Podcast. He has written six books spanning IT leadership and church ministry.