Pastor to Pioneer

Everyone knows there's only one way to be a pastor, right? Well…not so much.  In this episode of Pastor to Pioneer the guys talk to Wes Sharp, a pastor in Alabama who began discovering new paths of leadership and disciple making.    Wes shares how his initial understanding of making disciples was that the only way to do that was to go to seminary and become a pastor—to do it the "right" way.  He e...

Transition is never easy, and this week on Pastor to Pioneer, Moy Soriano talks about the challenges of leaving his role as a pastor and stepping into pioneering something significantly more decentralized—in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, but also with a heart for Mexico. Moy shares about going when called, and trusting God in that call.  He discusses the ways in which the church is—n...

Welcome to episode three of Pastor to Pioneer.  This week we hear from John Marshall, a pastor who left a large, successful church in New Mexico to start a church plant in New England.  John discusses how as he attempted to grow this new church, discontent was growing within him as he came to new realizations of what the Bible says about pastors and pastoring. John shares how he became so disillus...

This week on Pastor to Pioneer, the guys talk to Justin Roper, a former youth pastor of a large church on the East Coast.  Justin talks about how he was quickly climbing the "corporate church ladder" and moving to bigger and bigger churches—a hotshot, surefire success of a youth leader.  He was having an incredible amount of what most people would deem success, but no matter how big his youth grou...

In this new podcast, three pastors examine the ways in which the church has shifted, needs to shift, and could be made better.  With insights from weekly guests of various backgrounds, they dive into a subject that is a true passion for each of them—the church. As Pastor to Pioneer kicks off in this first episode, meet the hosts.  Each of them shares a bit of their respective story as they moved f...

The trailer for the Pastor to Pioneer podcast. The podcast is an honest conversation with pastors and former pastors who are exhausted from existing church structures and are seeking a simpler way of being the church and making disciples like we see in scripture.