Backstage With The Simple Church

Co-Hosts Josh Mitchell and Evan Semanco are joined by Lead Pastor Justin Haigler today to recap the Grateful message from Sunday, The Red Clay Strays concert, and share some thoughts about gratitude and the energy that positivity can bring.  Join us live each Monday on Facebook at 3:30 pm via The Simple Church Facebook Page to ask your questions in real time, or email us Podcast@thesimplechurch.tv...

Co-Hosts Josh Mitchell and Evan Semanco are joined by producer Jordan Phillips today to recap the Grateful message from Sunday, discuss their families Halloween, feature some special guest staff, and learn how to pronounce some words correctly!  Join us live each Monday on Facebook at 3:30 pm via The Simple Church Facebook Page to ask your questions in real time, or email us Podcast@thesimplechurc...

Co-Hosts Josh Mitchell and Evan Semanco are joined by Lead Pastor Justin Haigler to recap Justin's message from Sunday, talk Halloween and the excellent costumes on the Simple Church Preshow this week, and why we don't like when God asks us scary questions.  Join us live each Monday on Facebook at 3:30 pm via The Simple Church Facebook Page to ask your questions in real time, or email us Podcast@t...

Co-Hosts Josh Mitchell and Evan Semanco are joined by Lead Pastor Justin Haigler and special guest Angie Haigler, Justin's wife. Angie shares a great resource to help have better conversations, and the couple discuss expressing gratitude and the value words can have.  Join us live each Monday on Facebook at 3:30 pm via The Simple Church Facebook Page to ask your questions in real time, or email us...

Co-Hosts Josh Mitchell and Evan Semanco give a quick update on what's happening this week, we'll be back next week with a full episode! Join us live each Monday on Facebook at 3:30 pm via The Simple Church Facebook Page to ask your questions in real time, or email us Podcast@thesimplechurch.tv . LINKS FROM THE EPISODE Email Prayer@thesimplechurch.tv Download The Simple Church App If you have feedb...

Co-Hosts Josh Mitchell and Evan Semanco are joined by Lead Pastor Justin Haigler and producer Jordan Phillips to recap Justin's message from Sunday, the significance Open Eyes has had in Justin's life and the founding of The Simple Church, and why the voice of fear is often louder than the voice of faith. Join us live each Monday on Facebook at 3:30 pm via The Simple Church Facebook Page to ask yo...

Co-Hosts Josh Mitchell and Evan Semanco are joined by Producer Jordan Phillips to discuss Evan's message from Sunday and talk Ai, trans-humanism, and why the human experience is becoming more rare. They discuss parenting in 2026, why we as Christians even need to talk about this stuff, and scenarios that were science fiction 15 years ago becoming reality like uploading your loved one into a chatbo...

Co-Hosts Josh Mitchell and Evan Semanco are joined by Life Group Coordinator Amber McDonnold and Producer Jordan Phillips to talk all things Life Groups! Life Groups are small groups that meet during the week, and are the best way to make a big church feel small. Amber shares about all the Life Groups that are happening this fall, features some brand new groups like a bike riding group and blended...

Co-Hosts Josh Mitchell and Evan Semanco are joined by Lead Pastor Justin Haigler and producer Jordan Phillips to discuss 19 years of The Simple Church, recap Justin's message from Sunday and why we have to keep moving or we'll die, as well as the instructions from Justin on what every single person in The Simple Church (even his own family) should hear if he died tomorrow.  Join us live each Monda...

Co-Hosts Josh Mitchell and Evan Semanco are joined by Lead Pastor Justin Haigler AND Care Pastor Bryan Reed today to recap the message this week and discuss the seminar Bryan led with his wife Peri on Grief. We discuss the 25th anniversary of 9/11, why so many people attended the grief seminar last week, and how you can work through grief in a healthy way. *We also apologize for the sound quality...

Host Evan Semanco is joined by Producer Jordan Phillips for a quick podcast update on why Justin and Josh are absent, a big update for the Louisiana Boardwalk, and some parenting talk about moving kids out of cribs. We'll be back with a full episode next week on TUESDAY because of Labor Day.  *Normally* Join us live each Monday on Facebook at 3:30 pm via The Simple Church Facebook Page to ask your...

Co-Hosts Josh Mitchell and Evan Semanco are joined by Lead Pastor Justin Haigler AND Producer Jordan Phillips AND Executive Pastor (and Justin's Brother) John Haigler for the first 5 person podcast in a very long time to discuss John and his wife Theresa's seminar from Sunday, talk about parenting, how they tried to install good habits in their kids, and how all of us can start good HABITS now.  J...

Co-Hosts Josh Mitchell and Evan Semanco are joined by Lead Pastor Justin Haigler AND Producer Jordan Phillips finally returns to discuss Justin's message from Sunday about habits. They discuss how we can create good habits, what bad habits drive us nuts, and respond to a listener question about how they pray and why they don't know what to say to God.  Join us live each Monday on Facebook at 3:30...

Co-Hosts Josh Mitchell and Evan Semanco are joined by Lead Pastor Justin Haigler to discuss Justin's message from Sunday about parenting and technology. They discuss how we can work through unprecedented times and how fast the world is changing, Josh and Evan discuss being in the trenches as parents of Middle School and Elementary Schoolers, and what age kids should get a cell phone. Join us live...

Co-Hosts Josh Mitchell and Evan Semanco are joined by Lead Pastor Justin Haigler to discuss Justin's message from Sunday about worry. They discuss how we can work through worry and why it never really goes away, our Family Fun Night on Friday August 7th at the Boardwalk, and recap Evan's vacation police encounter. Join us live each Monday on Facebook at 3:30 pm via The Simple Church Facebook Page...

Host Josh Mitchell is joined by Lead Pastor Justin Haigler to talk about the Chill series, why it is so difficult to Chill, recap the Juarez Mission Trip, and more. Join us each Monday on Facebook Live at 3:30 pm via The Simple Church Facebook Page to ask your questions in real time, or email us Podcast@thesimplechurch.tv    LINKS FROM THE EPISODE Full Message from Sunday Family Fun Night August 7...

Host Evan Semanco is joined today by Care Pastor Bryan Reed to discuss Evan's message from Sunday in the Chill series, about stress. Evan and Bryan talk about parenting stress with school projects, how they relieve stress in their own lives, and answer a listener question about grief and stress and how to work through the loss of a loved one. Join us each Monday on Facebook Live at 3:30 pm via The...

Co-Hosts Evan Semanco and Josh Mitchell are joined by Lead Pastor Justin Haigler to talk about the new series, Chill, recap Josh's week at Middle School Camp, Justin's visit to David Wade Correctional Center, and more. Join us each Monday on Facebook Live at 3:30 pm via The Simple Church Facebook Page to ask your questions in real time, or email us Podcast@thesimplechurch.tv    LINKS FROM THE EPIS...

In a short episode this week Host Evan Semanco is joined by producer Jordan Phillips to talk about the 4th of July weekend, go off on some tangents about soccer and parenting, and discuss our next big event, Family Fun Night on August 7th at 6 pm at the Louisiana Boardwalk.  Family Fun Night is for Babies - 12th graders and their family to play Bingo (and raise money for Honduras), get some free f...

Co-Hosts Evan Semanco and Josh Mitchell are joined by Lead Pastor Justin Haigler to talk about Evan's message from Sunday, Boom at the Boardwalk July 4th, the impacts of Ai Chatbots as the Church, and we go down a rabbit hole about why Penny Loafers are called Penny Loafers. Join us each Monday on Facebook Live at 3:30 pm via The Simple Church Facebook Page to ask your questions in real time, or e...

Hosts Evan Semanco and Josh Mitchell are joined by Lead Pastor Justin Haigler to talk about Man Day, the message from Sunday about the God of Acceleration, how to know when to go and when to wait, and answer a listener question about what healthy masculinity actually looks like to us.   Join us each Monday on Facebook Live at 3:30 pm via The Simple Church Facebook Page to ask your questions in rea...

Host Evan Semanco is joined by Producer Jordan Phillips and Lead Pastor Justin Haigler to talk about the message from Sunday, give some updates on Justin's latest health updates, and talks about how we can walk through difficult circumstances and grow in our faith.  Join us each Monday on Facebook Live at 3:30 pm via The Simple Church Facebook Page to ask your questions in real time, or email us P...

Host Evan Semanco is solo hosting today with two special guests, Do Good Pastor Robyn Horton and Jura Health CEO and Co-Founder Chris Moore for a different kind of episode on ways to Do Good you probably have never thought about. Chris explains Jura Health's mission, the incredible technology they're using to diagnose genetic disorders faster than ever before, and how Chris's family became a part...

Co-Hosts Josh Mitchell and Evan Semanco are joined by Justin Haigler and special guest Angie Haigler to discuss how their family is handling health issues, why we need community, and the ways to find purpose in serving. Join us each Monday on Facebook Live at 3:30 pm via The Simple Church Facebook Page to ask your questions in real time, or email us Podcast@thesimplechurch.tv  LINKS FROM THE EPISO...

Co-Hosts Josh Mitchell and Evan Semanco are all by themselves today to talk about the message from Sunday, give some updates on Do Good projects around The Simple Church, and reflect on parenting as well as local exotic animal races you might not know about.   Join us each Monday on Facebook Live at 3:30 pm via The Simple Church Facebook Page to ask your questions in real time, or email us Podcast...