Close the gap between
vision and execution.
Most church teams have a vision. Few have a system that carries it from January to December. In eight sessions, Eric Smith walks you through the operating rhythm behind Hope City: strategic clarity, annual priorities, 90-day ITAs, alignment, lead measures, and the weekly execution meeting that holds it all together.
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God sends momentum.
Structure sustains it.
Clarity questions.
Identity, direction, execution. The deep-dive Eric runs with every church he consults — and every church has grown. Session one hands you all ten.
Execution cycles.
The year is four 90-day sprints. ITAs — Important Targeted Actions — with one owner, one deadline, and one clearly defined win.
Weekly rhythm.
A short weekly accountability meeting: what's complete, what's in progress, where are you stuck, what needs attention this week.
Stop filing strategy. Start running rhythms.
Where most teams are
- ×A vision deck no one opens after January.
- ×Off-site clarity that fades by Friday.
- ×Staff meetings that are status updates, not decisions.
- ×Priorities that compete instead of compound.
- ×An exec pastor running meetings instead of rhythms.
Where Momentum takes you
- ✓3–5 priorities every staff member can name from memory.
- ✓A “not-doing” list on the wall everyone respects.
- ✓ITAs with clear owner, due date, and lead measures.
- ✓A 30-minute weekly scoreboard that drives decisions.
- ✓A leadership team that knows how to win this week.
The gap isn't passion.
It's rhythm.
Vision without execution dies in committee.
Strategy decks get filed. Off-sites fade by Friday. Staff meetings become status updates instead of decisions. Momentum exists because clarity has to survive the week.
More isn't the fix. It's the problem.
When momentum stalls, most leaders add — more meetings, more pressure, more communication, more activity. Eric's diagnosis is the opposite: stop doing some things so you can focus on what actually moves the needle.
Sideways energy sinks the boat.
Busy churches going in twenty directions — the buffet church, not the filet church. Siloed ministries with competing priorities put holes in the boat everyone else is rowing.
Accountability is a gift.
When people know the expectations and there's accountability around them, they elevate their execution — and find the work more fulfilling. The weekly rhythm is how you give that gift.
8 sessions. One operating rhythm.
From strategic clarity to weekly execution — the complete system, in about 75 minutes. Every session free.
Welcome to Momentum
Vision clarity and mission alignment. Why leaders misdiagnose lost momentum — and why the fix is usually doing less, not more.
2 MINStrategic Clarity: The 10 Questions
Identity, direction, execution. The deep-dive to run with your key leaders — who you are, where you're going, and what's in the way.
21 MINAnnual Priorities
Find the gaps between what you say matters and what you're experiencing. Filter by impact, urgency, and alignment. Hope City's five catalytic drivers.
9 MINBuilding 90-Day ITAs
Important Targeted Actions: what you're accomplishing, who owns it (one person), when it's done. Weak vs. strong ITAs, with examples.
9 MINAlignment
Cascade churchwide ITAs to departments and individuals — 3 to 5 each, all pulling the same direction. Kill the sideways energy.
10 MINLead Measures
Lag measures tell you what happened. Lead measures are the actions you control that produce the result. Dictate your outcomes.
11 MINWeekly Execution
The 15-minute weekly accountability rhythm: what's complete, in progress, stuck, and needs attention. Progress visible, drift obvious.
6 MINPutting It All Together
The annual, quarterly, weekly rhythm as one system — plus the stop-doing list. You don't build a healthy church by doing more.
5 MINStop reacting.
Start running rhythms.
Annual clarity. Quarterly ITAs. Weekly execution. Built for the local church — the whole leadership team on one operating rhythm.
Start the course — freeIt's rhythm."— Eric Smith
Eric Smith
Eric Smith is the founding pastor of Hope City Church (4,000 in 4 years), author of Momentum, and co-founder of Pastor Center. He began developing the Momentum system in 2018 to solve the problem he kept running into himself — a leadership team with great vision and no rhythm to carry it through the year. This course distills the refined version of that system, tested in his own church and the churches he consults.
In this course, Eric walks lead pastors, executive pastors, and ministry leaders through the three connected rhythms — annual clarity, quarterly ITAs, and weekly execution — using the same methodology Hope City runs on every week.
You'll walk away with a system,
not another strategy deck.
A leadership team that knows what matters this year, what they're doing this quarter, and how they're winning this week.
Pastor Center is the platform this course was built for.
Eric co-founded Pastor Center — the platform that helps you run what this course teaches, from sermon planning to team building, every week.
Your church doesn’t need more.
It needs momentum.
Eight sessions. About 75 minutes. The operating rhythm that took Hope City from a launch team to four thousand — free, starting right now.
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