Advance Movement Podcast

The UK Conference was hosted at KCC, Southampton. 15 - 16 November 2019. Donnie Griggs - Life is cruel, but God is good and mission is everywhere One of the characteristics of exile is the suffering around us. The natural response is to run away from it or turn a blind eye. What would it look like if we, who know the God of all comfort, chose to take the opportunity and the responsibility to comfo...

The UK Conference was hosted at KCC, Southampton. 15 - 16 November 2019. Drug and alcohol addiction is increasingly common in our towns and cities, in every demographic. Millions are impacted by this reality. In this session, Travis Evans from One Harbor Church (Morehead City, NC) shares about One Harbor's journey to push back the darkness of addiction in their area.

The UK Conference was hosted at KCC, Southampton. 15 - 16 November 2019. Focusing on the life of Jeremiah, Andrew Sampson sets out four principles to help us understand the kinds of leaders we need in our cultural context.

The UK Conference was hosted at KCC, Southampton. 15 - 16 November 2019. As society grows more secular, young people are less and less likely to be churchgoers. We need to avoid quick and superficial solutions in order to reach young people. Instead, we need to think about the deeper currents that are causing this trend to take place, and then unearth the resources we have in the gospel to make a...

The UK Conference was hosted at KCC, Southampton. 15 - 16 November 2019. What is the role of hospitality in our churches and why should we invest our time and energy into creating a welcoming environment? Keela Waters shares experience from the One Harbor hospitality ministry, unpacking the ministry philosophy, team structures and leadership focus.

The UK Conference was hosted at KCC, Southampton. 15 - 16 November 2019. The story of Samson is both comic (killing a thousand men with a donkey’s jawbone) and brutal (killing a thousand men with a donkey’s jawbone). It is also a story rich in applications for us. In his encounter with Delilah (told in Judges 16), Samson provides us with a picture and metaphor of the dangers of entanglement with t...

Eldership teams gathered at Reconciliation Road Church, for a day together on 19 October 2019. Sessions revolved around the theme 'Multiply'. Mosala Balatseng (Grace Generation Church) challenges us to ask 'What has God put in my hand?". He works through four steps toward a posture that will allow God to multiply our own impact and effectiveness for His Kingdom.

Eldership teams gathered at Reconciliation Road Church, for a day together on 19 October 2019. Sessions revolved around the theme 'Multiply'. Gregory Cassim exhorts us to go in faith. He uses the story of the disciples in Acts 8 to highlight the priority of Gods mission, over our own comfort and convenience.

Eldership teams gathered at Reconciliation Road Church, for a day together on 19 October 2019. Sessions revolved around the theme 'Multiply'. Gareth Bowley (Reconciliation Road Church) gives us four compelling reasons that church planting should remain a priority for every community of believers.

Mosala Balatseng (Grace Generation Church) delivered the plenary session at the Western Cape Hub Celebration evening, hosted at Jubilee Community Church, Cape Town, South Africa. Date: 10 October 2019. Mosala spoke on the theme of stewardship, investigating the origins of the word and concept to give context to our modern day understanding. He notes the crucial link between stewardship and humilit...

Conference sessions from the North American Eastern Hub Conference, 19-21 September 2019. Hosted at One Harbor Church, Eastern North Carolina. Donnie Griggs asks the question, 'What sort of leaders do we need when living in exile?'. He contrasts our inclination to appoint leaders because of sentiment or need with Paul's instruction to the Philippians; working through a range of characteristics and...

Conference sessions from the North American Eastern Hub Conference, 19-21 September 2019. Hosted at One Harbor Church, Eastern North Carolina. Emily and Kimberley (One Harbor Church) discuss adoption and fostering. Both of their families have welcomed children of different ages into their homes for a number of years. They discuss the heart behind it and Biblical perspectives. They close with pract...

Conference sessions from the North American Eastern Hub Conference, 19-21 September 2019. Hosted at One Harbor Church, Eastern North Carolina. Donnie Griggs and Travis Evans, two pastors from One Harbor give us some background to One Harbor's work in the area of addiction and substance abuse. They share about their own journey as a church, what they have learned and a couple of practical steps chu...

Conference sessions from the North American Eastern Hub Conference, 19-21 September 2019. Hosted at One Harbor Church, Eastern North Carolina. Bryan Hart (One Harbor Church) speaks to the challenge of pastoring people through politicized issues and gives us four strategies to overcome them. He mentions the unhelpful marriage of conservative politics and religion, the difference between political i...

Conference sessions from the North American Eastern Hub Conference, 19-21 September 2019. Hosted at One Harbor Church, Eastern North Carolina. Corey Sanders (The Movement Church). As exiles, it often seems we want to embrace the world in all the ways we shouldn’t, while avoiding engaging the world in all the ways we should. We are gospel people, mission people, which means we must remain engaged w...

Conference sessions from the North American Eastern Hub Conference, 19-21 September 2019. Hosted at One Harbor Church, Eastern North Carolina. Brian Recker (One Harbor) delivers a punchy session looking at the poignant issue of singleness, celibacy and LGBTQ people in our churches. He suggests three practical steps for churches, including: - that we aim to unite, rather than waste time hand-wringi...

Conference sessions from the North American Eastern Hub Conference, 19-21 September 2019. Hosted at One Harbor Church, Eastern North Carolina. Donnie Griggs (One Harbor Church) opens the conference with an exhortation to seek the welfare of our cities. Firstly, to accept that our faithfulness to Christ mean that we are living in exile, surrounded by a culture that does not celebrate or support the...

Session recordings from the Advance Global Conference, hosted in Cape Town, South Africa from 29 - 31 May, 2019. Matthew and Grace Hosier lead Gateway Church, on the South Coast of England. Matt preaches the final session of the Global Conference, charging all present to fight the good fight. To fight for genuine relationships, for confidence in our calling, for a robust faith and for a clear cons...

Session recordings from the Advance Global Conference, hosted in Cape Town, South Africa from 29 - 31 May, 2019. Donnie and Jill Griggs lead One Harbour Church, a thriving church based in a small town in North Carolina, USA. Donnie reminds us that one of Advance's distinctive values is genuine relationship. He speaks of his own experience in leadership, and how the next generation must fight for t...

Session recordings from the Advance Global Conference, hosted in Cape Town, South Africa from 29 - 31 May, 2019. Raman begins his session by reminding us that a fatherly posture in the church is not only for those who are older, but a mandate for each of us. That as leaders, our ministry is in fact stewardship; of our people and their gifts for the glory of God. That regardless of age, we have a r...

Session recordings from the Advance Global Conference, hosted in Cape Town, South Africa from 29 - 31 May, 2019. Mosala and Makhosi Balatseng are based in Pietermaritzburg, on the East Coast of South Africa. Mosala shares his passion for the next generation, and what is required of the older generation in order to raise up strong men and women to lead our churches in future. He emphasizes the need...

Session recordings from the Advance Global Conference, hosted in Cape Town, South Africa from 29 - 31 May, 2019. Alan and Rynelle Frow lead Southlands Church, in Southern California. In this session, Alan interrogates the story of Achsah in Joshua 15. Alan begins with a quote from Charles Spurgeon, which aptly summarizes the session “This brief account of a family appears twice in the Bible, and I...

Session recordings from the Advance Global Conference, hosted in Cape Town, South Africa from 29 - 31 May, 2019. Ryan and Sachi Saville are part of the team leading Jubilee Community Church's inner city plant, alongside the Lex and Jo Loizides. Ryan delivers some powerful thoughts on the importance of destroying the idol of race. He emphasizes that successful urban ministry in particular requires...

Session recordings from the Advance Global Conference, hosted in Cape Town, South Africa from 29 - 31 May, 2019. "Live with Gospel intentionality" is the charge from Lois Franks. Lois and Ben planted into the Rhondda Valley's of South Wales a few years ago, and have been steadily growing a healthy church in a community facing significant socio-economic challenges. Despite the challenges, she refle...

Session recordings from the Advance Global Conference, hosted in Cape Town, South Africa from 29 - 31 May, 2019. Corey and Robin Sanders planted into Homestead, Florida a couple of years ago. Corey speaks to his peers, the Zennials, and charges them to hold high three things: Good relationships, Character and Risk for the sake of the Gospel.