The Endurance Factor
A community commited to helping ministry leaders avoid burnout, live well, and finish strong.
Join the Community
Introducing the Endurance Factor Digital Community from Pastors Collective. Our online space for Pastors and leaders who want to live well and finish strong. Here you will connect with one another, share wins, join us for online events, and most importantly, give and receive words of encouragement and learn from one another.
ENDURANCE FACTOR
CIRCLE COMMUNITY
$10/MO
What’s Included
Endurance Factor Book
Get a Free digital and hardcopy
Free digital copies of The Endurance Factor Study Guide
Online Community
Weekly discussions, group challenges, meet-ups, LIVE events (including online worship gatherings just for you).
Monthly live “Office Hours” with Chip & Greg where we will discuss what’s on your mind.
Most importantly, connection to others trying to “live well and finish strong.”
Book Club
Read 4 books/year with Chip Judd.
Kick the club off with a weekly live review of The Endurance Factor book on 10/4, with Chip & Greg
Private Podcast Feed
More conversations, more off the cuff, a bit more unplugged.
More stories, a wider array of voices, encouragement, and other content you won’t want to miss out on.
Audio of all gatherings and events you missed.
Video Library
You will have later viewing of all gatherings and hangouts that were not private.
All of this for only $10/month!
And remember, your investment benefits not only you, but helps pay for pastors to “live well and finish strong”
PASTORS'
ENDURANCE FACTOR
CIRCLE COMMUNITY
$25/MO
Includes everything in the Endurance Factor Community membership PLUS:
Up to 4 additional free staff memberships in the Pastors Endurance Factor Community
Your church staff will have access to all the Endurance Factor resources
You can order additional copies of The Endurance Factor book at 15% discount
Optional involvement to interact in “pastor only” spaces.
Extra support and additional hangouts, just for pastors.
Over time, we will be forming a strategic support system for you as pastors, aiming to provide more personalized support
A monthly pastors only “Office Hours” with Chip & Greg to discuss whatever is on your mind.
All of this for only $25/month!
A value of $5/person per month for yourself and 4 additional staff members
Get your free hard and digital copy when you join the community!
Whatever you need to finish the race, God has already provided.
Marathon runners are known for their endurance-they train, they master the habit of discipline, and they persevere through pain. Fortunately, even marathons end. If you have picked up this book, you are likely running a marathon of your own-the marathon of ministry leadership.
The Endurance Factor will transform you into a ministry athlete! In this book, Lead Pastor Greg Surratt and Pastor of Leadership Care Chip Judd of Seacoast Church provide ministry leaders with practical wisdom and hope to help them finish the race strong with a captivating double narrative. You will learn practical principles about how to:
Fight for your spiritual well-being by embracing the discomfort of vulnerability
Invest in your ministry without sacrificing your relationships
Get painfully honest about your character flaws without losing sight of God's unfailing grace
Build teams on the basis of God's enduring love to create a culture of resilience
Your primary ministry is to rest in God's love, the love that conditions the weary soul to win every race set before you!
Coming Soon
Living well and finishing strong doesn't just happen. It takes a plan as well as discipline and effort.
Tune in as Pastor Greg Surratt and Pastor Chip Judd, along with their guests, share lessons learned over the decades on what it takes to gain and hold on to the endurance factor.
Both hosts spend a lot of their time helping pastors across the country find their endurance factor and, episode by episode, share their learnings and experiences.
You will be able to find the Endurance Factor presented by Pastor’s Collective on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Meet the Authors
Greg Surratt is the founding pastor of Seacoast Church, which he planted with a small group of like-minded people in 1988. Together, they made 16,000 phone calls to people in the area to better understand what they look for in a church.
Today, Seacoast has a dozen campuses throughout South Carolina and North Carolina, as well as a thriving online community.
Over the past several years, Greg has grown increasingly concerned with the mental health of pastors, with studies showing as many as 42% of them are in various stages of burnout. In 2018, Greg founded The Pastors Collective to address this growing crisis, and opened The Retreat at Church Creek in 2021 to provide a refuge for pastors to rest and make lasting connections with others.
Greg is a co-founder of the Association of Related Churches (ARC), which is a global church-planting initiative that has established over 1,000 churches worldwide since its founding in 2000. He is the author of the books IR-REV-REND, Re-visioning, and The Endurance Factor, as well as a contributor to various podcasts and magazines.
Greg is married to his childhood sweetheart, Debbie, and together they have four children and fourteen grandchildren. He enjoys photography, fishing, golfing, and rooting for the Cubs, Broncos, and Gamecocks.
Chip Judd is the Pastor of Leadership Care at Seacoast Church in Charleston, SC, where he invests in the health and development of the staff and campus pastors. He is honored to work under Greg and Josh Surratt to help leaders “Live Well and Finish Strong.”
He is also the Founder of MorphQuest, a 501(c)(3) through which he counsels, coaches, and consults with individuals, leaders, and organizations helping them to identify, challenge, and change their counterproductive patterns of thought, belief, or behavior.
Chip has been in pastoral ministry for over forty-three years and counseling has been a large part of his ministry from the beginning. He received his Master’s in Counseling at The Citadel and started a counseling practice in addition to continuing to pastor. Chip’s counseling and pastoring experience combine to give him unique and powerful insight into blind spots and blockages in marriages, families, churches, and their ministry teams.
He seeks to present Biblical truth mixed with "sanctified psychology" to bring about real freedom and lasting change.
Chip and Coleen have been married for forty-seven years and have three married adult children, two great sons-in-law, a great daughter-in-law, and seven amazing grandchildren.
Join our Endurance Factor
digital community
The Endurance Factor Community, presented by Pastors Collective, will transform you into a ministry athlete! In this community, we provide ministry leaders with practical wisdom and hope to help them finish the race strong.