Fuel For Pastors

Южная Баптистская Конвенция (SBC): Всё, Что Нужно Знать Что такое Южная Баптистская Конвенция (SBC) и почему она стала крупнейшим протестантским объединением церквей в Соединённых Штатах? В этом видео пастор Богдан Кипко рассказывает свою личную историю знакомства с SBC, развеивает популярные мифы о её структуре и объясняет, как тысячи автономных церквей сотрудничают ради исполнения Великого Поруч...

On this episode of Fuel For Pastors, I am interviewed by my friend Elijah Koryfan. Elijah and I sat down recently in Sacramento, California where he asked me a series of questions that have to do with planting churches in America, as well as the state of the church in America. Elijah is a great interviewer and I was excited to share my thoughts about these topics, that are near and dear to my hear...

On this episode of the Fuel For Pastors Podcast, I interview my good friend and fellow church planter Aleksei Kharlamov. Aleksei immigrated to the San Francisco Bay Area eight years ago from Moscow, Russia. Aleksei and his wife Lera are planting a new church, Spring Church, in Moraga, CA, in the East Bay Area of Northern California. In this interview, Aleksei talks about his experience in going th...

On this episode of The Church Planting Life Podcast, I am joined by my beautiful and wise wife Victoria. To be the wife of a pastor is stressful enough as it is. But to be the wife of a pastor who is also a church planter is definitely not for the faint of heart. Without any filter, my wife will share with full transparency what it's like to plant a brand new church, alongside of me. Men, tak...

On this episode of The Church Planting Life Podcast, I talk about the real reason why we plant a church in the first place - so that we can preach every single Sunday! If that is not one of the main reasons why you planted the church, then are you even a church planter? On this episode, I discuss not only the most popular preachers in the evangelical industrial complex, but I also dissect sermon l...

On this episode of The Church Planting Life Podcast, I talk about what most church planters hugely and almost always exaggerate, and that is the amount of people that come to their church. You already know you are speaking to a church planter when you ask a guy how many people come to their church, and they answer you with "if you count all the women and children and those that come once a ye...

On this episode of The Church Planting Life Podcast, I talk about the Corona Chaos. There was never a class in seminary that taught pastors or church planters how to effectively handle a pandemic. There are no experts. No one knows anything. If anyone tries to tell you otherwise, they are lying to you. What might be right for your church, might not be the best decision for another church. So what...

On this episode of The Church Planting Life Podcast, I outline step by step what Forward Church has been doing for the last seven months when it comes to reaching those that are far from God, on Facebook. God has been breathing on our efforts and we have seen much gospel fruit come forth from our Facebook evangelism efforts. How did we do it and what did it entail? I talk all about it in this epis...

On this episode of The Church Planting Life Podcast, I talk about my philosophy behind how we gauge the success and effectiveness of our outreach efforts, specifically when it comes to streaming church online on Social Media. What counts as a real person? Is a three second video view of your Sunday Service a real metric of how many people came to your church? Is online church going to replace in-p...

On this episode of The Church Planting Life Podcast, I talk about what the church is. But seriously, when was the last time that you actually asked yourself this question and had a nuanced conversation about it. Is church only when we gather together on Sunday or is church when your people are watching the service online in their pajamas? What if tomorrow, social media doesn't exist and the o...

On this episode of The Church Planting Life Podcast, I share with you my top ten tips for church planters. Nothing gets me more excited than speaking with other guys who have a deep desire and passion to start a new church. I love the energy and excitement they exude and they fire me up even more to continue my own church planting journey. In this episode, I share my top ten tips for church plante...

On this first episode of The Church Planting Life Podcast, I share the reason why I decided to plant a church. This is one of the most often asked questions that I get. People always want to know, why is it that I, along with my wife Victoria founded and planted a brand new church in Irvine, California? In this inaugural episode, I am going to talk about how my family immigrated to the United Stat...