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More Surprising Findings from Our Latest Review of the Numbers
Two weeks ago, Amy and I started a conversation on some unexpected findings related to ministry leadership in growing and declining churches from The Unstuck Group's latest research. As promised, we are back with more to share. While the results may surprise you, remember that the information is based on numbers and not opinion—even if the truth is hard to swallow at times.
In this video, we discuss:
The impact of mobilizing lay leaders on church growth
What span of care looks like in growing and declining churches
Why giving more people a voice is a mark of decline
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Podcast Transcript
Amy Anderson: 00:12
Welcome to The Unstuck Church podcast. I'm Amy Anderson here with Tony Morgan, and each week we share a conversation our team's been having about getting churches unstuck; and today we're sharing more learnings from our quarterly unstuck church report. And, Tony, you started this conversation last month in our podcast about what we're learning to be the differences between growing churches and declining churches. So just before we dive in,
Amy Anderson: 00:35
remind us what prompted this discussion.
Tony Morgan: 00:36
Yeah, so again, you're right. We talked about a couple of the categories from the report last month, and we have a couple more that we want to hit today, but it's funny… As soon as we start talking about growing and declining churches, people were interpreting these to be my personal opinions on what churches should be doing to grow or decline. I'm just reporting the data folks, so you can argue with the data if you want to, but I'm not… It's not me. Okay. It's just me—I'm just reporting the data as I am reporting the news. Here we go. So what we did is we looked at the data from the churches that both grew by and declined by more than 5 percent in attendance over the last 12 months. In essence, we pulled out all of the data of all the churches in between because we wanted to see are there any differences that the data tells us between the growing and declining churches.
Tony Morgan: 01:36
And just as a reminder, again, Amy, this is not—this is not about the size of the church because both groups in the growing churches and in the declining churches, we had churches have less than 100 people in attendance, and we had churches have more than 2,000 people in attendance. So both sets of data included both small churches and megachurches. So this has nothing to do about the size of the church that has to do with the direction of momentum. Was the church growing or declining? And when we started to look at the data, we did identify some… some differences. In some cases there's some significant differences between the two groups of churches.
Amy Anderson: 02:18
Well, let's talk about growing churches first. I know in our conversation, you know, we, we know that all growth is not always healthy growth, but you indicated last month that these growing churches look fairly healthy, right?
Tony Morgan: 02:30
Yeah. In this case, you're right, Amy, not—not every growing church we've encountered I would say has been healthy, and I'm sure even within the data that we collected from all these churches, there were some unhealthy churches that were growing, but overall, when you look at all the churches that were in the growing church category from the data, these churches were healthier if making new disciples is any indicator of health because the growing churches had a much higher percentage of salvation and baptisms than the declining churches did. So there's some indication beyond just growth that these growing churches also are healthier than the declining churches that were included in this data. Okay. So let's—let's look to ministry leadership. Um, what were some of the key differences between growing and declining churches when it comes to ministry leadership? Yeah. This one was a bit of surprise to me, but I think there's some explanation for it.
Tony Morgan: 03:32
But, uh, overall growing churches have fewer paid staff members than declining churches, and there's a bit of a gap here. Um, so, and again, Amy, this involves math. So hang with me here at growing churches. Yes, that's right. Growing churches hire one staff person for every 71 people in attendance. And by the way, when we look at staff, we're looking at all staff, whether they're in the ministry staff leadership role or a supporting ministry role support staff type role. And, Amy, as you know, uh, we look at both part time and full time and figuring out what the full time equivalent is. So growing churches hire one staff person for every 71 people in attendance, on the other hand, declining churches, hire one staff person for every 50 people in attendance. So there's a gap there. If you work it out, then what that means is a declining church with a thousand people in attendance actually has six full time staff members more than a growing church with the same attendance.
Tony Morgan: 04:42
So adding more staff is not necessarily what you want to do to help your church reach more people. And the other… the other interesting fact around ministry leadership was this, and this was actually I think of all of the distinctives between the growing churches and the declining churches where we saw the biggest gap within the data. So you'll want to listen closely to this growing churches develop and empower more leaders than declining churches. And here's the data on this. The churches that are growing have one identified leader for every 11 people in attendance at the church. In other words, their span of care is one to 11. Essentially for declining churches though they only had one leader for every 19 people in attendance. And so you can see there's quite a… there's not quite double the amount of leaders and growing churches compared to declining churches.
Tony Morgan: 05:45
And so here you have to think about the level of ministry discipleship that's happening in ministry teams in small groups and Sunday school classes, whatever the case might be. There's a… there's a healthier span of care when it comes to leadership in growing churches complete compared to the churches that are in decline. So again, it's interesting, and it's almost a dichotomy here. When it comes to empowering leaders, growing churches have far more leaders than decline in churches, but they have fewer staff members, and so that's interesting. What that tells me then is, is growing churches are mobilizing lay leaders more effectively than declining churches.
Amy Anderson: 06:33
Yeah, that's fascinating. It links a little bit to our conversation we had a week or so ago on just leadership capacity and pipeline.
Tony Morgan: 06:40
That's true. That's very true.
Amy Anderson: 06:43
Okay. So related to ministry leadership, um, there were also some pretty interesting findings related to board and committees. Talk a little bit about that.
Tony Morgan: 06:51
Yeah, and again, the data here is, it's pretty amazing, and this is probably not surprising to you, but let me just, let me just give you these two, these two tidbits. The first is this, I always like it when I can include the word tidbits and one of our podcast. So here, here it is. Declining churches have twice as many committees as growing churches. Again, probably not a surprise, but what this tells me is that growing churches have streamlined their governance structure to eliminate any unnecessary committees. And then of course the meetings at those committee members are a part of and what this allows then is for more people to be engaged in ministry rather than going to meetings, but the other thing we're seeing is it really does create a nimbleness, if you will, among the growing churches to make decision making happened faster and so they're not getting bogged down in decision making.
Tony Morgan: 07:53
And I do believe that is a key difference that we see on a routine basis between growing churches and declining churches. The other complimentary factor here is growing churches have smaller church boards, so if you strip away all of the committees and just look at the overarching board, whether that's an elder board or whatever your structure is, that top leadership board, the average size of the church board in growing churches is only six people. The average size and a declining churches is eight people so slightly larger. And in fact we've seen some churches, one church board, they had over 200 people on it. I would not. It wasn't a megachurch by any means. So the data really does confirm what my gut has known for some time, giving more people a voice in decision making about spiritual matters and ministry strategy does not improve the church's health.
Tony Morgan: 08:59
Instead we want people that are gifted in qualified Biblical leaders leading the ministry strategy and the spiritual direction of the church and when churches get the right people in those roles and not trying to capture everybody's voice in decision making then we're seeing churches end up being healthier, at least growing more. And as I indicated earlier, it looks like healthier as well. Yup. Alright.
Amy Anderson: 09:27
How about ministry finances, what were the key differences there between growing and declining churches?
Tony Morgan: 09:33
Well, this is probably no surprise based on what we just talked about related to staffing, but as it relates to budgeting and finances, declining churches are spending more money on staffing as well. And so declining churches are spending 54 percent of their budget on staff a dollars in benefits and salaries and things like that. Growing churches are spending only 50 percent of their budget on staffing.
Tony Morgan: 09:59
Um, where, where, uh, there's a bit more of a surprise though, is this, when it comes to giving per capita, giving is actually higher in declining churches and it's significantly higher. What we're seeing is each person in a declining church is giving three, four percent more than the people who attend growing churches. Um, and uh, you know, if you think about it, growing churches tend to reach a more new people, uh, and they tend to reach more people who either are new believers or not yet committed in their faith to Jesus. And as a result of that, it really takes time for new people not only to connect to the church and connect with their faith, but then ultimately to be giving financially to the church. And we've talked about this for many years. There's definitely a giving lag that exists in growing churches. And so this is one of the reasons why in the unstuck church book I mentioned one of the key symptoms of a church in the maintenance phase of the life cycle is they actually have healthy giving.
Tony Morgan: 11:10
And mainly that is, I think because the people that are connected to the church have matured in the faith, they've started to be very generous with their finances, good stewards of the resources God's given them, they're giving more to the church. But the challenge for churches in the maintenance phase is they don't have many new people, new people either new to the faith or are new people that Church hill are still considering the claims of Christ. And as a result of that, we do see one of the key differences between growing churches and declining churches is that giving is actually higher and declining churches. Um, now, uh, what I thought was going to happen on this third piece is we would find, because the third piece I want to highlight is how much debt growing churches in declining churches have. My suspicion was because giving us less and growing churches and because they're growing that more that growing churches would have a higher level of debt.
Tony Morgan: 12:14
But to my surprise, the, it's actually the exact same amount of debt in growing churches and declining churches. And so even though churches are declining, they're still spending money on something, it's still going into debt even though they're giving is much stronger and they still have the same amount of debt is growing churches. And so bottom line on all of this, uh, when, when we look at finances and the differences between growing churches and declining churches, I don't think you can spend your way out of decline, whether that's hiring more staff, whether that's increasing the giving, whether that's incurring debt to to accomplish something related to expanding vision or expanding facilities or things like that. I don't think you can spend your way out of decline. And I think it goes back to some other principles that we've talked about in the past, amy, primarily identifying if we are in decline, do we know why we exist as a church?
Tony Morgan: 13:18
Do we know where we're going in the future? Do we know how we're going to get there? And then in all of that, to remembering who is it that primarily God's positioned our church to reach and are we—do we have that person in mind when we're designing everything that we do as a church from the weekend services to our discipleship path, to how we communicate to that intentionality that we have of reaching people outside the church and outside the faith. I think that's where the turnaround really does begin. If you are hoping to move from being a declining church to becoming a growing church again.
Amy Anderson: 13:58
Really well said. That was worth the whole podcast, Tony.
Tony Morgan: 13:58
You think so?
Amy Anderson: 14:03
Those last 30 seconds.
Tony Morgan:
That math wasn't… the math didn't do it for you though, Amy?
Amy Anderson: 14:06
No, there's a lot of math in there. Really. Well, hey, if a leaders want to learn more, Tony, about growing and declining churches, what would you recommend?
Tony Morgan: 14:17
Yeah, so it was just about a year ago that "The Unstuck Church" book came out. And again, that book is all about the life cycle of churches, and I detail several different phases of growth and then decline that churches experience. And my hope with the book was that churches could identify what phase we're in because in the book, then I give some specific next steps that churches can take regardless of which seven phases of the life cycle of the churches in today. So as a first step in a relatively cheap step, if you haven't read "The Unstuck Church," I would encourage you to pick up the book at Amazon and check that out because it will give you some next steps you can take whether your church is growing or declining. But then the other new offer that we have, Amy; we've talked about it a little bit more in recent weeks, is the Leading an Unstuck Church Online Course.
Tony Morgan: 15:13
And that online course goes a step further from the book in that we give you not only some things to consider, but some specific exercises to do with your team. Some specific conversations to have with other ministry leaders. Some things that you can be doing in your leadership to hit several of the core issues that we're seeing in both growing and declining churches. And so again, for a relatively little amount of money, we're hoping to give you some real practical tools to take your next step in leadership and help your church get unstuck. So those are, those are two recommended resources, whether your church is growing or declining, that I'd love for you to consider.
Speaker 1: 15:57
Alright, well thank you, Tony, and thanks to our listeners for joining in today. Um, if you were interested in finding out more about that online course that Tony just mentioned, you can go to our webpage theunstuckgroup.com/equip. And if you're interested in the Unstuck Church Report, you can just nose around on our site, and you'll find it there as well. So we hope you join in again next week. Be sure to subscribe on ITunes, Google Play, or wherever you get your podcast, so that you don't miss an episode. We'll see you next week.


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Try this Honey Cotton Cheesecake recipe, a delicious recipe and a different take on a traditional cheesecake.
It is officially holiday season around here and I could not be more overwhelmed. It's kind of funny how spending money can snowball so quickly. We started off Friday morning with a clear cut list of what we needed for the weekend, yet we came home Saturday evening having spent way too much and with things that were definitely not on our list but will definitely make our holiday season, as well as others' holiday season, a little brighter. Plus, I got some adorable ankle boots for only $8.98 from Target. It obviously wasn't on the list but at $8.98, hello, I had to.
One thing that I'm realizing as the children get older is how much I love for them to experience holidays like I never got to. As I'm an only child, I never got to buy or make presents for my siblings. It was really fun last weekend to see them explore Target, trying to find the perfect gifts for each other. We also let the kids get us (parents) gifts and that was really cute. My son was so worried that my husband doesn't have enough tools so he wanted to get all the tools and gadgets that Target had to offer.
After all that shopping this weekend, there was definitely nothing better than going home to some delicious desserts that we had made throughout the week. My body is definitely mad that I'm not eating healthier but my brain absolutely loves me.
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1/2 cup cream cheese
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1/4 cup honey
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 egg yolks
- 1/4 cup cake flour sifted
- 1 tablespoon corn starch sifted
- 2 egg whites
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice or white vinegar
- 1/4 cup sugar
Double boil the milk and cream cheese on the stove top. Mix well until there is no lumps left.
Remove the milk and cream cheese mixture from the stovetop. Add butter, honey, and vanilla extra in one at a time and mix well. Then mix egg yolks in.
Mix the flour and starch in until the texture is smooth without any lumps. Set aside.
Now onto the egg white better (meringue). Add lemon juice into the egg whites first. Use handheld mixer to whip out big bubbles first and then mix in half of the sugar. Keep mixing for another minute and then add the rest of the sugar into bowl. Turn the speed up to whip the batter until the batter forms a soft peak.
First fold 1/3 of meringue into the egg yolk batter and gently mixing them together by folding. Continue to fold another 1/3 of meringue in in this manner. Once it's well combined, fold in the rest of the meringue.
Line the entire 6-inch springform with parchment paper and preheat the oven at 355°F. Pour in the batter and place the springform on the lower rack of the oven. Bake it for 15 minutes and then lower the temperature to 245°F and bake for another 45 minutes. Broil for color if desire.
This recipe was converted from grams. Below are the ingredients in grams which will create a better cheesecake as we had to round slightly on some of the ingredients.
- Egg yolk batter: Milk 55 g, Cream cheese 60g, Butter 25g, Honey 32g, 2 t vanilla extract, Egg yolk 2, Cake flour (sifted) 30g, Corn starch (sifted) 8g
- Egg white batter: Egg white 2, Lemon juice or white vinegar 1 t, Sugar 35 g


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Homoeopathic fraternity condemns the FDA advisory against homoeopathy teething tablets & gels
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Dr. A.K.Gupta ,President Homoeopathic Medical Association of India (HMAI), Delhi (The largest body of Homoeopathic Doctors) said that the homoeopathic fraternity at large condemns the recently published news of US FDA : Homoeopathic Teething tablets harmful . strongly
Homoeopathic fraternity at the outset rejects it & argues the Hypocrisy in the reports time to time onslaught by the sceptics and Pharma industry , like it was said earlier that "Homoeopathy is just Placebo" and does not have any substance and if it doesn't have any substance then how can it have any harmful effect as per latest " Homeopathic Teething Tablets Harmful" . said Dr. A K Gupta emphatically.
He says that though Homoeopathy is a safer medicine , but still it should be taken under the guidance of a registered homoeopathic doctor. Since homeopathic remedy is individual and symptom based. Dr. Gupta lauded by saying that "Homeopathy Ensures Health Safely" to be taken judiciously.
When one so-called homeopathic toothpaste or gel is banned, how can they say homeopathy is harmful to kids???? Shame on those paid media people for this cheap news reports! People are not fools to get misguided by such paid reports!!! Says Dr Rafeeque from Kerala
some gel used for dental cleaning, banned by FDA, not clearly known, but the local media is celebrating as if homeopathy is harmful to kids.
Toothpaste is patent product….
How they can say regarding Whole Homoeopathy….it's really shameful…. I personally Condemn..!
This is dogmatic & derogatory … It's just an effort to dissuade people sply the parents to use Homoeopathy. As Homoeopathy has been widely accepted & used for the young children. Even Allopathic doctors & their families have been known using Calc Phos for teething problems in children widely. Most of the chemists keep it & sell it as OTC. Strange at one time they propagate that Homoeopathy is placebo & later say it has side effects. Which to believe…NONE. Both statements are wrong.
Dr Sumodh NairThe modus operandi adopted by this allopathic people is to undermine the system of homeopathy as its effective and cheap medicines have become a headache to the allopathic industry
Dr Sunil Singh said Toothpaste is patent product….
How they can say regarding Whole Homoeopathy
Dr Geetha Thomas said Healthy toothpaste selecting on the basis of colour code below the tooth paste our gum fort gel is black colour mark which means more chemical is added in it . our. medicine so safe
These were the reactions from homoeopaths.
Meanwhile the Hyland toothpaste company has given their clarification and advisory on the report. https://www.hylands.com/media/news/hylands-response-fda-advisory-regarding-homeopathic-teething-tablets-and-gels
Prof.Dr.A.K.Gupta, President HMAI urged the media to restrict the malafide intentions of the big Pahrma industries calculated onslaught on Homoeopathy. On the contrary Homoeopathic medicines are not only safe and are very effective& showing good results in treating the present scenario of Chikungunya, Dengue . Homoeopathy is a system of medicine based on the principle of Similia Similibus Curenter discovered by German Physician Dr.Hahnemann and survived more than 2oo years because of its efficacy and curative powers and treating even rare diseases also concluded Dr.Gupta.


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"No man is an island," wrote John Donne, the 16th Century English poet and cleric. In politics, this metaphor seems especially relevant. It is convenient, especially with social media, to be insular and self-protecting of our cherished political beliefs. We often hang out with people who feel and believe as we do. What is not easy—what takes courage—is to open our minds and listen to other points of view on climate change, immigration, women's reproductive rights, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict…you name it. Anyone unswervingly committed to one position needs to engage in civil discourse with someone equally committed to another position. This is choosing debate over polarization. It's building a bridge, not a wall. It's allowing our political institutions to breathe again, and be effective before they break down and break our country apart. In my new novel, The Beginner's Guide to Winning an Election, I was pleased to be interviewed on a podcast by a smart, savvy sixteen year old student activist. I gave him my thoughts about my 18-year-old heroine, Brit, who learns the necessity of speaking up about politics —dispassionately, diplomatically, and using research and history as her guide. History teaches us that being "islands"—going it alone without interacting, helping, or learning from others—is to capitulate to cynicism, apathy and stagnation. The lesson every generation should learn, starting in middle school and high school, is not to shy from politics but to embrace them.
Try to have one of your characters do or say something in the course of the narrative that's totally original…something that's never been done in another movie or film. This is not easy to achieve, but if you have an imagination, have some fun with it. You'll go down a lot of dead ends, but if you're lucky, you'll end up on a mountain peak. Remember that the event has to be plausible, but originality is usually memorable. No matter how many crime stories we read, for example, the great ones take our thoughts and emotions to unexplored places. It's what readers talk about in reviews and blogs.
Building a character arc should be done over the span of the novel. Just like it's a writing sin to have an information plot dump in the first chapter of your book, likewise your characters shouldn't reveal themselves right away. One aspect at a time—brought out by action rather than exposition—keeps the reader engaged.
Most writers are more comfortable delineating one sex (or gender) over another, which often dictates their main characters and the genre a writer chooses. You can still be a male and write fantasy romances, or a female skilled at describing war scenes, but whatever your strength, play to it.
Very few writers do everything well. The best write about what they know, and their characters evoke passion, empathy or curiosity in a reader.
It's great to surprise a reader with the unexpected, helping give a twist to the plot and the character, but whatever transpires, it must have credibility. Unless she's a prodigy, a twelve year old girl is not going to solve the murder of her parents that happened ten years earlier. A surgeon who graduated from Harvard is not likely to leave a sponge behind in his patient's abdomen. If you go for low probability events, or extreme twists, you have to back them up with plausible explanations. The "willing suspension of disbelief" only goes so far. Once a reader becomes skeptical that the writer doesn't know what he or she is talking about, it's tough to win them back.
Great characters, to enhance their arc, should have a fourth or fifth gear that seems to come out of nowhere. For example, villains can turn into heroes with an act of kindness that we would never have anticipated, yet when we read the novel closely, we realize that the seed of kindness was planted by the writer from the beginning. Similarly, characters we start off admiring suddenly disappoint us when they hurt someone they love. If they don't realize what they've done, figuring out the "why" makes them even more interesting. Well-conceived characters can help with plot troubles, too, if the writer wakes one morning and isn't sure where his or her story is going (happens to most of us). Instead of robbing a bank, for example, your destitute character decides to give away his last fifty dollars to a stranger. The wife who has been cheated on, instead of taking revenge on her husband, is filled with insights about her father. A deeply-felt, richly-imagined character is your writing buddy, your co-conspirator, and their importance to the final product can't be overstated.
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Most writers begin the writing process by working on plot. While plot is obviously important, I also like to know everything possible about my main characters, even if I never use many of their details in the novels. Whether you take voluminous notes about them, or talk out loud to them (and they talk back to you), it's rarely enough. You need to imagine what they would do off the page, i.e., if they had to attend your Uncle George's July fourth barbecue, or somehow landed in another novel altogether. Make them your best friends or worst enemies. Whether they come from your imagination or real life (or a combination thereof), you should be inside your characters a few hours every day—before you write a single word. Think of method acting. Characters aren't simply pawns in a plot—they transcend it. They are what you remember long after the plot is often forgotten.
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Michael French is a graduate of Stanford University and Northwestern University. He is a businessman and author who divides his time between Santa Barbara, California, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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I love the Tate Modern! You're so lucky being able to pop by after work.. I need to be living in London already! I agree it's good going on your own then you can just see the bits you want to!ReplyDelete
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I'm not a fan of this place, I think I'm stuck in the dark ages with my love of the V&A haha. Glad you liked it though, if I lived in london I'd mooch around galleries on my own too xReplyDeleteReplies
I flipping love the V&A! I need to go back there soon xxxDelete
Let me know what day you're going and what time you'll be there and I'll make sure I'm about, wearing a creepy parka and breathing heavily. If someone spills a drink on you next time you're in the v&a, it's me, giving you a sign that I'm aboutDelete
not really Reg, I wouldn't do that to you x
I've got to admit I have never set foot in the Tate Modern, I will probably be shot down in flames for this, but I just don't get it, it is everything that I don't 'get' in art. 2 lines down a red screen doesn't do it for me. I'm a fan of the old Masters so you will find me bumbling around The Tate.ReplyDelete
Lve artwork and history, haven't been to the Tate since I was a kid, looks amazing :)ReplyDelete
I'm not a big Tate modern fan, I'm too much of an Impressionist girl.. but still it's free so it's always nice to walk around every now and then and wonder at what some people call art! xxReplyDelete
I've never been to the Tate, would love to though! xReplyDelete
Impromptu trips are the best! Like Rachel ^, I'm not particularly an impressionist sort of gal, it's lovely but just not my taste!ReplyDelete
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How cool that you can just pop into Tate! I've never been to an art gallery. Really must correct that xxReplyDelete
Impromptu trips like that are great! Patrick and I go on a lot of museum and gallery dates. So much fun, even better if there are nice restaurants and views :)ReplyDelete
I've always wanted to go to art galleries and look at paintings in order to try and get some perspective of what i say. Unfortunately i haven't done much of that but i am hoping to this year. I especially love the 1st and 3rd paintings you've posted. Thanks for your comment on my guest post on Vanisha's blogReplyDelete
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FIFA Soccer
Price: Free to play
FIFA Soccer is arguably the most popular soccer game on mobile. Of course, that means it's a shameless cash grab by EA Sports! There are some likable things about the game, much like their other sports offerings. It has outstanding graphics, decent mechanics, and a lot of content. That includes a single-player campaign mode, online PvP, online leagues, players from over 550 teams, and more. It has more content than just about any other game in the genre. However, its freemium tactics are a little aggressive for our taste. Enjoy, but tread carefully.
Kevin Tom's Football Manager
Price: $3.49 + $0.99
Kevin Tom's Football Manager is a neat little soccer simulator. The graphics won't win any awards. It's basically stick figures playing on a field and kicking four or five pixels around. However, the game is much deeper than that. You pick a team, buy and sell your players, use some strategy, and try to win everything. There are four divisions, various tournaments, and more. It's a port of an old C64 game, and the graphics reflect that. It's a nice retro football manager with some nostalgic value for older football fans. The game runs for $3.49 and you get the whole game for that.
PES 2019 Pro Evolution Soccer
Price: Free to play
PES 2019 Pro Evolution Soccer is FIFA's biggest competitor on mobile. Many believe it to be a better game as well. The game features good graphics, outstanding mechanics and controls, a team building mechanic, online multiplayer, local multiplayer, and more. FIFA has more stuff to do, but PES is a funner game to play. That should help most people make the right choice for them. PES 2018 is also a freemium game and that will get in the way eventually. Until then, this is an outstanding soccer game.
Rumble Stars
Price: Free to play
Rumble Stars is one of the newer soccer games on the list. It's an arcade soccer (football) game with colorful graphics, ridiculous abilities, and animals. The game features PvP online game play with tons of characters and customizations. You also get clubs, various leagues and other competitive challenges, and you can even watch game streamers in the game itself. This one requires a network connection, but its arcade goofiness takes the edge off of the competitive aspects of the game. It's not bad if you want to just play to have fun.
Soccer Star 2019
Price: Free to play
Soccer Star 2019 is a fun soccer game. However, it skews closer to average than it does to great. It's built for mobile. That means there are a ton of players and items to collect. The game starts out easy enough. The controls are simple to learn and the graphics are pretty good. However, the game gets difficult over time unless you take advantage of the freemium mechanics. Still, it's a fun game, at least for a little while. It's nowhere near as good as some of these other games, but it's definitely better than most others.
World Soccer League
Price: Free to play
World Soccer League is a bit of a dark horse on this list. It's better than most soccer games. However, it doesn't have the mass reception of games like FIFA or PES. The game features full soccer games, around 120 teams, 2,000 players, four game modes, achievements, leaderboards, and support for 15 languages. The mechanics are simple enough, even if they are a bit slow and the graphics are above average in this genre. It's a freemium game because of course it is. However, that's about the worst thing about it.
If we missed any great soccer games or European football games for Android, tell us about them in the comments! You can also click here to check out our latest Android app and game lists!


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The quarterfinals were played on February 2 and 3, with a total of 10 goals being scored. On Saturday, FC Goa and FC Pune City secured their place in the last four as the Goan side defeated SAI Guwahati by a 3-1 scoreline while Pune got the better of East Bengal 2-1 with two goals from Laldawngkima.
Sunday saw Minerva Punjab secure passage into the semis, after a penalty shootout victory against Mohun Bagan. The teams were locked at 1-1 after extra time but it was the Punjab side that held its nerve in the tie-breaker, which ended 6-5 in their favour. In the last quarterfinal, Aizawl FC recorded a 1-0 win over Chennaiyin FC as R Lalthanmawia scored the only goal in the 16th minute.
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CONCORD, N.C. – Austin Theriault finished 12th in the PASS-sanctioned Mason-Dixon Meltdown 200 at Concord Motorsports Park on Saturday, wrapping up an impressive debut with Brad Keselowski Racing (BKR) this month.
Theriault made his first start with the team in the crash-marred World Crown 300 at Gresham Motorsports Park in Jefferson, Ga., two weeks earlier.
"The opportunity to race for BKR is something not a lot of people can say they have," said Theriault, 17, of Fort Kent, Maine. "Just being able to show your talent on the southern stage is something a lot of people want to be able to do. Anything we can do in the future with (Gary Crooks and Wayne Setteringon) at BKR will be great for us.
"Everything's looking pretty decent right now. We came out of these two races looking like there's going to be an ongoing future relationship. I'm not sure about specifics right now – it's too soon to know anything for certain – but I'm excited about whatever the future holds."
Theriault made just his fourth career Super Late Model start in the Mason-Dixon Meltdown 200 and qualified seventh out of 35 cars on the fast, challenging half-mile tri-oval at Concord Motorsports Park. He ran with the leaders inside the Top-10 until losing track position following an early pit stop for adjustments, where a one-groove race track and a long green-flag run made it difficult to get back to the front.
BKR crew chief Gary Crooks said the No. 29 Brad Keselowski's Checkered Flag Foundation Dodge team was impressed with Theriault's performance.
"We're all racers and we all want to win, obviously," Crooks said. "But Austin really did a great job. He's learning the cars, learning how to give feedback, all of that stuff. He held his own out there, and we were really happy with the job he did for us."
Theriault first joined BKR for the World Crown 300 in mid-November, qualifying 19th in a stellar field. An early wreck not of his doing took him out of contention in that race – but his performance in both practice and qualifying before the green flag earned him a second shot in the BKR ride.
Theriault, who finished third in the ACT Late Model Tour standings in 2011, said there has been a learning curve in moving to Super Late Models.
"It's been different," Theriault said. "Going from Late Models to Super Late Models, there are some adjustments you have to make. They actually drive pretty similarly – but there's different learning curves. There's a whole lot more you can do with a Super Late Model as a driver, in terms of giving feedback about what the car is doing.
"Really, it's all about giving feedback to Gary (Crooks) and all the guys on the BKR team, and just jelling in with the team at this point. Everything's clicked pretty well. It's been a great experience. I've learned a lot."
Finishing 12th and on the lead lap at Concord was a big step in the right direction for Theriault.
"The race didn't quite turn out the way everybody had expected – but from practice to qualifying and even into the race, everything seemed to go pretty well," Theriault said. "You can always look back at what you could have done different during a race, but overall – for how tough that track was – we came out pretty well with the car in one piece.
"It was important to go out and finish the race. Finishing great is a plus, but what is it they say? You've first got to finish before you can finish first, right? So I'm happy with how things have gone."
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Shlohmo - Dark Red
Dark Red‰۪ is the second full length album from Shlohmo, aka 25 year-old Los Angeles native Henry Laufer. The record is an uncanny marriage of his ever- evolving, richly textured sound with shades of 90s IDM, R&B, cassette-tape Jungle and, in an unexpected turn, sludge metal. ‰ÛÏIt sounds like if Electric Wizard tried to make an R&B record,‰ he says, ‰ÛÏor Boards Of Canada meets Burzum by the River Styx.‰
Shlohmo‰۪s music thus far exists in the poles between the subtly textured tracks of ‰Û÷Bad Vibes‰۪ and the booming sinister synths and hi-hats of his production work and remixes (such as his split EP with Jeremih, Banks‰۪ ‰Û÷Brain‰۪, remixes for Drake and The Weeknd). ‰Û÷Dark Red‰۪ utilizes Shlohmo‰۪s existing palate but also mines the noises and imperfections inherent in analogue production and naturally damaged sounds. Side-stepping current trends that lean towards pristine, computer-generated production, ‰Û÷Dark Red‰۪ explores natural distortion, fuzz and noise as compositional tools, intentionally distressing sounds to echo the feeling of the icy menace and emotional charge found on early black metal tapes. The result is a deeply personal listen, Shlohmo‰۪s boldest statement yet.
This isn‰۪t an album which fades into the shadows. The eerie, squalling synths of ‰Û÷Ten Days Of Falling‰۪ usher in a world of phosphorescent disintegration and decay; from the looming claustrophobia of new single ‰Û÷Buried‰۪ to the minimalist pindrop orchestration of ‰Û÷Remains‰۪ and the carnal hum of ‰Û÷Ditch‰۪, there is palpable anxiety and discord. ‰Û÷Relentless‰۪ and ‰Û÷Slow Descent‰۪ explore an internal sense of pain and sorrow that adds a stark emotional charge to the record.
Laufer explains, ‰ÛÏWhen I started working on ‰Û÷Dark Red‰۪ about two and a half years ago, I had just moved back to LA and built a small studio in my apartment, mostly with my dad‰۪s old gear from the 80s. I had just lost some people close to me and was dealing with another loved one's health issues. I was all over the place mentally, and I think it reflects in this record whether I like it or not.
‰ÛÏThe only thing I did know going into it, was that I wanted this one to be loud, and not just loud but really really f***ing loud. I wanted the sound of the thing to be devastating and violent. Recordings that force you to feel something even if that something isn‰۪t good. I‰۪m proud to have made something polarizing, a record that's strong and undeniable even in its moments of pure anxiety and confusion. It‰۪s tragic and painful at times, but that‰۪s all part of it and I want that to be heard and felt. You don‰۪t have to like it, just listen to it.‰


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Wireless networks have come quite a long way in the past 10 years, but there's still improvements that can be made and it's likely we'll see some of those improvements as we move towards the next generation of network, 5G. Right now there are no currently up and running 5G networks but carriers around the globe are surely beginning to research how to evolve their technology to get to this point, and a company called Kumu Networks could have a solution to help things along. A current problem with cell networks is that they don't allow for people's devices to transmit and receive radios at the same time. Kumu's technology, which is a Full Duplex radio transmission system, may be able to help with that.
To understand why they're calling it Full Duplex, it's simply because Half Duplex is already the term for how the radio transmissions operate on carrier networks now. Half Duplex essentially is the solution to an issue called Self Interference, which makes it impossible for radios inside a device to transmit and receive on the same frequency at the same time. Full Duplex, aims to allow this to happen which could end up doubling the amount of data being transmitted as it could be received and sent out simultaneously. Full Duplex won't necessarily be part of the future 5G networks, but while Kumu was showing off their technology at MWC this week, carriers SK Telecom and Telefonica took notice and both believe that it could have an important role to play as a standard for future 5G networks.
Kumu already allegedly has a working and commercially viable Full-Duplex radio. Kumu states that they were able to achieve this by listening, which consisted of scanning the radio environment at all times according to Joel Brand who is the company's Vice President of Product Development. Full-Duplex is already used in regular phones, so Full-Duplex isn't something that Kumu themselves created, rather they came up with a tangible way to apply the use of Full-Duplex within the wireless phone networks to further expand the capabilities of the radio transmission and retrieval. Why this is such a big deal is because if carriers were able to utilize the full capacity of their networks to simultaneously transmit and receive data through the same frequencies, it could allow them to increase the number of connections present on their network at any given time, which would be strengthening their network and allowing more people to take advantage of it.


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Toshiba introduces the IK-HD5H camera, the latest 3-CMOS camera innovation, a progressive-scan full-HD 1080p/1080i video camera featuring 3G-SDI/HD-SDI and DVI-D outputs and removable optical low pass filter (OLPF) for dual-mode imaging applications switchable between visible light and near-infrared visualization.
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Album of the Week – Francesca Prihasti 'Night Trip'
'Night Trip' by Francesca Prihasti is Eastside Radio's Album of the Week. Eastside is proud to help promote this young up-and-coming Sydney based pianist who exhibits a talent far beyond her years. The Jakarta national graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium with a Bachelor of Music (Jazz Performance) in 2012, after discovering a love for the Jazz tradition in high school. Her studies brought her into contact with the crème-de-la-crème in Australian and global Jazz including Judy Bailey, Kevin Hunt, Mike Nick, Greg Coffin, John Harkins, Matt McMahon, Aaron Goldberg (USA) and Aaron Parks (USA).
Prihasti took no time to start to pay her dues in and around the Sydney live scene, appearing at the Jazzgroove Association, Venue 505, Foundry 616, Colbourne Avenue, Dome Bar, and the Manly Jazz Festival. She has also shared the stage with the likes of Dave Goodman, Richard Maegraith, Carl Dewhurst, James Waples and Dale Barlow. 'Night Trip' showcases Prihasti's intuitive talent to meld her influences from Latin, Classical, Pop, Folk, and Ethnic Music through the catalyst of Jazz. The album was recorded in late September of 2014 and features New York City musicians bassist Marco Panascia, and drummer Ulysses Owens Jr, as well as Sydney local Nic Vardanega (guitar). Vardanega is also a featured artist within Prihasti's core quartet alongside Dave Goodman (drums), David Groves (double bass).
Be sure to tune in to Take One this Friday form 12-2PM to hear my one-on-one interview with Francesca Prihasti herself as well as a few tracks from the 'Night Trip' album. Be sure to stay in the loop with Prihasti via FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE, INSTAGRAM or at her website http://francescaprihasti.com.au/
Also be sure to tune in this week to 89.7FM EASTSIDE RADIO for your chance to WIN a copy of Francesca Prihasti's release, 'Night Trip'. You must be a supporter to win so make sure to sign up at http://eastsidefm.org/support-us-2/. Don't forget you can also stream the station at www.eastsidefm.org.