Backstage With The Simple Church

Host Evan Semanco is joined by producer Jordan Philips as we continue The Interview Series here on the BWTSC Podcast. Since 2007 when The Simple Church launched, we've had some incredible guests and we want to bring some of those interviews to the podcast audience! Today we're bringing you Part 2 our 2013 interview with Mrs. Kay Robertson from Duck Dynasty Fame. The Robertson family is based just...

Host Evan Semanco is joined by producer Jordan Philips as we continue The Interview Series here on the BWTSC Podcast. Since 2007 when The Simple Church launched, we've had some incredible guests and we want to bring some of those interviews to the podcast audience! Today we're bringing you our 2013 interview with Mrs. Kay Robertson from Duck Dynasty Fame. The Robertson family is based just up the...

Host Evan Semanco is joined by producer Jordan Philips as we continue The Interview Series here on the BWTSC Podcast. Since 2007 when The Simple Church launched, we've had some incredible guests and we want to bring some of those interviews to the podcast audience! Today we're bringing you Part 2 of our 2019 interview with two of the founding members of the Christian Rock Band Audio Adrenaline, Ma...

Host Evan Semanco is joined by producer Jordan Philips as we continue The Interview Series here on the BWTSC Podcast. Since 2007 when The Simple Church launched, we've had some incredible guests and we want to bring some of those interviews to the podcast audience! Today we're bringing you our 2019 interview with 2 of the founding members of the Christian Rock Band Audio Adrenaline, Mark Stuart an...

Host Evan Semanco is joined by producer Jordan Philips as we continue The Interview Series here on the BWTSC Podcast. Since 2007 when The Simple Church launched, we've had some incredible guests and we want to bring some of those interviews to the podcast audience! Today you can hear Part 2 of an exclusive interview from the band For King and Country that was lost to the archives for over 10 years...

Host Evan Semanco is joined by producer Jordan Philips as we continue The Interview Series here on the BWTSC Podcast. Since 2007 when The Simple Church launched, we've had some incredible guests and we want to bring some of those interviews to the podcast audience! Today you can hear an exclusive interview from the band For King and Country that was lost to the archives for over 10 years! For King...

Host Evan Semanco is back with Producer Jordan Phillips for an BWTSC tradition, interviewing two bright graduates in The Simple Church before Senior Sunday. Samyia Graham from Haughton High School and Drew Kent from Parkway High School join the show to talk about growing up at The Simple Church, the experiences that shaped them in student ministry, and find out on air they both are going into psyc...

Host Evan Semanco is joined by producer Jordan Philips to talk about a new series on the Backstage with the Simple Church Podcast: The Interview Series. Since 2007 when The Simple Church launched, we've had some incredible guests and we want to bring some of those interviews to the podcast audience! We continue the interviews with the lead singer of the band Payable on Death (P.O.D.), Sonny Sandov...

Host Evan Semanco is joined by producer Jordan Philips to talk about a new series on the Backstage with the Simple Church Podcast: The Interview Series. Since 2007 when The Simple Church launched, we've had some incredible guests and we want to bring some of those interviews to the podcast audience! We continue the interviews with the lead singer of the band Payable on Death (P.O.D.), Sonny Sandov...

Host Evan Semanco is joined by producer Jordan Philips to talk about a new series on the Backstage with the Simple Church Podcast: The interview series. Since 2007 when The Simple Church launched, we've had some incredible guests and we want to bring some of those interviews to the podcast audience! We continue the start with (debatably) our most famous guest, NFL Quarterback Drew Brees. We brough...

Host Evan Semanco is joined by producer Jordan Philips to talk about a new series on the Backstage with the Simple Church Podcast: The interview series. Since 2007 when The Simple Church launched, we've had some incredible guests and we want to bring some of those interviews to the podcast audience! We start out the gate with (debatably) our most famous guest, NFL Quarterback Drew Brees. We brough...

Evan Semanco is joined by Lead Pastor Justin Haigler and Producer Jordan Phillips to talk with someone you probably wouldn't know, Erney Chaney, but will after this episode because without Erney, there is no Simple Church.  Justin and Evan go Backstage to find out how Erney got involved in Christian Music in Shreveport, what effect it had on Justin, and why Erney was so influential 40+ years ago a...

Evan Semanco is joined by Producer Jordan Phillips today to talk with the one and only Blake "Tricky" LeVassuer, a Simple Church volunteer staple who has some wild stories about working in the movie industry, using his gifts and talents for good, and why Sylvester Stallone almost ruined his career.  Blake has created incredible sets for The Simple Church over the years, and he opens up about why h...

Co-Hosts Scott Odom and Evan Semanco have a full studio with some of the team fresh off a trip to Honduras! Care Pastor Bryan Reed led the trip, and Stephen Knight and Jessica Beseau are long time Simple Church Partners who are on to share their experiences, why they chose to go on mission trip with young kids at home, and how all of their lives are changed #DoingGood.    LINKS FROM THE EPISODE Up...

Co-Hosts Scott Odom and Evan Semanco are back with Lead Pastor Justin Haigler to talk all things Easter, worship, and 90s Christian Music.  Easter 2025 is going to be unlike any Easter at The Simple Church before, and we'd love for you to join us on Saturday, April 19th at 2, 4, or 6 p.m. or Sunday, April 20th at 8, 9:30, or 11 a.m. at the Louisiana Boardwalk.  We also need more volunteer than eve...

Co-Hosts Scott Odom and Evan Semanco are reunited today with producer Jordan Phillips and Productions Pastor Chip Mitchell, who we realized had known all three of us individually since we were in middle school.  Chip is over all things tech at The Simple Church, and take a deep dive back to the beginning of his ministry career, how he became a Production Pastor, what a production pastor is, and wh...

Host Evan Semanco sits down with one of our favorite and most frequent guests, Amber McDonnold, the Life Group coordinator at The Simple Church. Life Groups are small groups that meet in homes or various places each week, and they're the best way to make a big church seem small.  Every semester we have Amber on to highlight some new groups and share stories of the difference being in a Life Group...

Host Evan Semanco and fill in co-host, Volunteer Coordinator Mallory Semanco, chat with the amazing DiDi Hayes, a long-time volunteer at The Simple Church. DiDi has worn many hats over the years at The Simple Church, and after retiring two years ago she decided to take on a unique challenge: volunteering to clean our buildings every week with a great team to make a big difference. We'll dive into...

On today's episode host Evan Semanco is joined by Do Good Pastor Robyn Horton and two mission trip participants, Britney Spivey and Sally Joiner, fresh off the first ever all women mission trip to Honduras. Robyn explains how the trip came together, what it was like serving women with an all woman team, and how doing things like health care, counseling, and even shopping was transformative in the...

On today's episode host Scott Odom returns for the first time as a new dad, and he's joined by co-host Evan Semanco and Producer Jordan Phillips to talk about Scott's first Christmas as a dad, our first ever Partner Rally on February 2nd, Lifegroup Kickoff and The Superbowl (apparently we can't say Superbowl anymore so it's "Big Game" day).  Find out about everything coming up and then Jordan and...

On today's episode host Evan Semanco is joined by fill in co-host Bill Allred to talk tech with two employees from the Subsplash Media Platform, Kate Morris and Jon Crabtree.  Never heard of Subsplash? If you have used the Simple Church App, you've used a Subsplash product. Kate and Jon talk about being a church tech company, how we can use technology to do church differently, and some exciting ch...

Happy 2025! On our first episode of the new year, host Evan Semanco is joined by Do Good Pastor Robyn Horton to talk reflect back on the "secret sauce" of the Simple Church, Doing Good. if you've been around Simple Church for a while, you can't escape the phrase, but if you're new and wanting to know more about why we emphasize doing good so much, this is a great place to start.  We look back on 1...

Happy New Year from all of us at The Simple Church!  We'll be back with new episodes every Wednesday on January 15th, 2025, but for today enjoy our most popular episode of 2024 if you missed it: This week host Evan Semanco was joined by High School Pastor Jonah Boaz to interview two of the class of 2024. Emma Haigler, a graduate from Benton (and Justin's Daughter) and Chase White, a graduate from...

Happy New Year from all of us at The Simple Church!  We'll be back with new episodes every Wednesday on January 15th, 2025, but for today enjoy our most popular episode of 2024 if you missed it: This week lead pastor Justin Haigler is back to talk with Brandon McComic who shared part of his story in a video, but is here to dive deeper on how an invite to The Simple Church changed his life, his fam...

Host Evan Semanco is joined by Do Good Pastor Robyn Horton to talk with Will and Andrea McGinnis of Hands and Feet Project all about Haiti. Will was a founding member of the band Audio Adrenaline, and he and Andrea have been working in Haiti for 20+ years #DoingGood, and if you haven't been following what's going on in Haiti, it is in a crisis that is almost too unbelievable to understand.  Sunday...