Backstage With The Simple Church

Our Lifegroup Coordinator (and mom) Amber McDonnold is on the podcast today to talk about Mother’s Day at the Simple Church THIS SUNDAY, May 9th. Amber shares some of her own personal Mother’s Day stories, talks about all that we’re doing at the Simple Church, and plays Scott in Mother’s Day Trivia (play along and see if you did better than them). Here is more info about Mother’s Day & how you can...

This week we are joined by Dr. Michell Yetman and Speech-Language Pathologist Rebecca Durr from the Children’s Center at LSU Health to talk about their work with families of kids who are diagnosed with Autism. They share great information on what they do to help families at LSUHC, why early diagnosis is critical, and some interesting facts you may not have known about Autism (including how the US...

This week on the podcast we feature 2 members of the Bike Life Group, a group of men who have donated over 2,000 bicycles in 30 schools around Shreveport / Bossier. Curt Joiner and Chris Bullock share about what inspired them to start this group, why being a part of a Life Group is so important, and how you can help Do Good by playing some Golf on Friday, May 7th in our Do Good Golf Tournament (or...

This week we revisiting our very first podcast from January 20th, 2020 enjoy this time before the world changed with one of our newest staffers, Caleb Kwok.    We will be back next week with a new episode, we'll be talking about our 6th Annual Do Good Golf Tournament on May 7th and how playing golf can help changes a kids life. You can check it out now here: https://6th-annual-do-good-golf-tournam...

We are back at the convention center also! Join Evan and Scott as they re-cap Easter and talk about the (new) old Simple Church at the Shreveport Convention Center.   Subscribe today!

This episode features special guests, James Ward from Heart for Lebanon and Jennifer Ward from Lighthouse Family Retreat on Zoom, as well as our Do Good Coordinator Robyn Horton to talk about our Easter Do Good project, Rebuilding Lives with Legos. Be a part of doing good with us this Easter, get a brick and find more information here: https://bit.ly/3m91Ezc Check out what Heart for Lebanon is doi...

Welcome Amiee Sandifer and Emily Petzold to the podcast! These two ladies have been apart of Simple Kids for years both on and off the stage. Get a little history of SK programs and what FX and Easter have to with each other!

Justin is back on the podcast. We are continuing our discussion about Easter. Why it's important for you to come back and what it looks like going forward! As always though he has to give Scott a hard time! Listen, laugh and subscribe today! Get a ticket to attend this Easter here: https://www.itickets.com/events/452270.html   Volunteer this Easter here: https://juliemitchell.wufoo.com/forms/z1rhj...

This episode features special guest Peri Reed, a licensed professional counselor and runs the Shreveport Counseling and Restoration Center.   Peri shares how the pandemic has affected people from a counseling perspective, and why we are meeting in person again this Easter.   Get connected to a counselor at SCRC here: https://shreveportcounselingandrestorationcenter.com/   Find out info on Easter,...

Today’s episode of the Backstage with the Simple Church Podcast features Dr. Suzanne Tinsley, who is a physical therapist and Assistant Vice Chancellor of Institutional Advancement at LSU-Health. Dr. Tinsley is currently working with COVID-19 survivors, and updates us on what the pandemic looks like in Shreveport / Bossier and what they are finding in patients who have had COVID-19. We also have p...

Thats right it's time to talk about racing and more life groups!!  If you didn’t know Simple Church has been involved with racing for years. Not nascar (yet), but we have been in go cart racing and dirt track racing.  If you wanna know what that history is all about then listen up to Joel Burris (crew chief of the GO Cart team) and Cliff Tupper (Dirt Track race car driver). So listen up and subscr...

Special guest Larry Otwell joins us today to talk about our friends at the Shreveport / Bossier Rescue Mission. Larry is the Executive Director at the mission, and talks about what the mission is doing during the pandemic, and how we can help to #DoGood. Then stick around at the end for an unusual way to help solve the national debt   https://www.barrons.com/articles/can-trillion-dollar-coins-cove...

On this Valentine’s Day podcast we have, wives! Mallory, Tyler, Jordan, Evan, and Scott play the newlywed game! We also talk to Tyler about what it is like being an RN in the health system right now.

Today our guest is Amber McDonnold, the director of life groups at the Simple Church. Amber is here to explain what a lifegroup is, why it is so important to do life with someone, and how to join one as they kick back off for a new semester. She also comes with Bernie Sanders memes and why she was encouraged by the country unifying over mittens. Subscribe today and if you have a suggestion or topi...

We talk to Robyn about doing good locally and globally. As well as talk about outer space... https://youtu.be/60ZJQ4I7_3M

On this podcast Evan and Scott talk about how we helping feed food insecure kids in our community through the school system. They also have some fun with pop culture references as well. Subscribe today and if you have a suggestion or topic you’d like us to discuss email, scott@thesimplechurch.tv. 

Welcome to 2021 Podcast! We are glad to be back! New surprises and topics coming up, like a new permanent co-host, Evan Semanco! Join Evan and Scott as they talk about 2020 and new things coming up I’m 2021!

We end with Justin and Christi R with our Staff Christmas Special Podcast!

Today we have Evan and Amber talking about some of the favorite and worst Christmases they have had.

Today we are talking to Bryan and John about their favorite Christmas memories.

We have a series of Christmas theme podcasts coming up with various staff members all about their Christmas memories.  We begin with Blake and Jonah talking some of their favorite Christmas past times.

Today we have Hannah Haigler on the podcast. She is Justins daughter and as many of you know she is going through a lot of health issues right now and she is joining us to talk about those as well as how she able to keep looking for hope while facing the unknown.

Chip and Jordan join us on the podcast today, talking all about the behind the scenes effort that goes into making Sunday happen both in the past and now. It may get a bit technical but if you ever wanted to the effort that goes into a Sunday morning now is your chance.

We brought Evan Semanco back to talk about his podcast, Parentstuff! Here is the link, https://parentingstuff.podbean.com.  Yes it is a simple church podcast, wait does that make us a network?  Anyway,  we talk about parenting in general as well as the parent stuff podcast. Listen and subscribe today! 

Listen and Brittany, Hailey, and Brandy talk about their walk for those with out clean water! 118walk.org is the website you can go to and give to the cause as well as learn more on why they would do this crazy long walk!