Backstage With The Simple Church

Co-Hosts Scott Odom and Evan Semanco talk a lot about ducks on this episode! Do Good Duck Day is Sunday, March 19th, 2023 and we are #DoingGood for Lighthouse Family Retreats and families that are experiencing childhood cancer. We'll meet at the LA Boardwalk from 10-Noon with inflatables, games, food trucks, and a duck derby with a grand prize of a free trip to the beach this summer! You can enter...

This week host Evan Semanco is joined by Lifegroup Coordinator Amber McDonnold to talk with Victoria Salder, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and new Lifegroup Leader! Victoria talks about the great content she will be leading this semester, The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman, for FREE! If you are married and looking to improve your marriage, this is the group fo...

A pastor's kid who is still involved in church as an adult and leading a Lifegroup??? It has actually happened, and hosts Evan Semanco and Scott Odom are joined by Caroline Reed on this week's podcast. Caroline shares what it was like growing up in the Simple Church her whole life, being a PK (her dad is Care Pastor Bryan Reed), how great her youth pastor was, and why she is leading a Lifegroup th...

Guests Carly and Chet Benner join Evan & Scott this week to talk about their experience attending the Simple Church, then volunteering (Chet against his will), then trying different Life Groups, not finding the right fit, trying again, and eventually becoming Life Group Leaders.  Life Groups are the best way to make a big church seem small, and if you're interested in Chet and Carly's Group or any...

Kinsley McCall is the owner of Tap and Zap Laser Spa ( https://www.tzlaserspa.com ) and is giving away a free tattoo removal to someone in the Simple Church so we brought her on to talk about starting a business, the craziest tattoos she has ever seen, and how removing a tattoo can help change someone's life.    LINKS FROM THE EPISODE Check out Tap and Zap on Facebook , Instagram , and TikTok Chec...

This week Backstage with the Simple Church brings in Angie Haigler to share her personal experience with regrets early in her life, how she worked through marrying a pastor and feeling judged in church, and starting counseling later in life to work through parenting and family issues in her life.    LINKS FROM THE EPISODE: Monroe, LA is one of the most dangerous cities http://www.thebiblerecap.com...

This week Backstage with the Simple Church brings back Andy Bond, a NCCA Certified Pastoral Counselor, PSAP, and Certified Enneagram Coach to continue last week's conversation about having less regrets in 2023. Go back and listen to Part 1 before you jump in today to hear about the Enneagram personality system and how you can use it in your life to help have less regrets! RESOURCES FROM THE EPISOD...

Backstage with the Simple Church is BACK for 2023. and we're kicking off the new year helping YOU to have less regrets. Today co-host Evan Semanco talks with Andy Bond, a NCCA Certified Pastoral Counselor, PSAP, and Certified Enneagram Coach about what to do if you already have regrets, how to change patterns and behaviors to prevent more, and then a tease about the Enneagram helping you in all wa...

Happy New Year! We're looking back at our most downloaded episodes from 2022, check out this one from Clint Davis and we'll be back next Wednesday with new episodes! Today mom of teenagers (and Life Group Coordinator) Amber McDonnold fills in as co-host with Evan Semanco to talk to the founder of Clint Davis Counseling, Clint Davis, about parenting. Clint shares some shocking statistics about kids...

Happy New year! We're looking back at our most popular episodes from 2022, Justin and Angie Haigler did a two part series talking about their own families in our Family Matters Series last March.  Justin and Angie Haigler return to the podcast to continue their conversation about Family Matters with Angie's counselor, LaNita Proctor from Clint Davis Counseling. LaNita is a Licensed Clinical Social...

We're looking back at our most popular episodes of the year, Justin and Angie Haigler did a two part series talking about their own families in our Family Matters Series last March.  Lead pastor Justin Haigler returns to the BWTSC Podcast and brings his better half, Angie Haigler, to talk about their own family, how difficult family can be, how counseling has vastly improved Angies life in the las...

From all of us here at the Simple Church, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We will be re-airing our more popular episodes from 2022, and we'll be back with more podcast-goodness January 18th, 2023! And remember, there are no in-person services on Sunday, December 25th and Sunday, January 1st, 2023. We will be back on Sunday, January 8th at the Shreveport Convention Center at 9:30 and 11 a.m. wi...

Merry Christmas from the Backstage with the Simple Church Podcast! Co-Hosts Scott Odom and Evan Semanco are joined by Blake Lawson to look back on 2022 and their own lives, their favorite things in pop-culture, and Scott's dislike of Top Gun: Maverick and Cope Middle School Theater Productions.  Then we brought on the Simple Church Staff to say thank you to a volunteer or group of volunteers who h...

This week co-hosts Evan Semanco and Blake Lawson got the interview of a lifetime with Kris Kringle himself. In this exclusive interview find out things you've never heard anywhere else like the worst Christmas Santa ever had, information about Elves health insurance, how Santa and Mrs. Claus meant, and more.  After you listen to this podcast and you're in the Christmas spirit, join us for Christma...

Merry Christmas! We kicked off our new Christmas Series this week, and we'd love for you to join us in person or online this year! We went Backstage with our Productions Pastor Chip Mitchell to talk about how Christmas actually comes together with dozens of volunteers building sets, why he doesn't actually hate Christmas (now), our favorite Christmases past, and a speed round of Christmas question...

Can you believe it is 2022? We go back in time to our first Christmas podcast in 2020 this week, and we'll be back next week for everything new at the Simple Church in Christmas 2022: Arcade Edition!  If you have feedback for the podcast, have a guest suggestion, or just want to talk to Scott, e-mail Scott@thesimplechurch.tv and follow us on Instagram @thesimplechurchpodcast. Leave us a 5-star rev...

Happy Thanksgiving Eve! Co-Hosts Scott Odom & Evan Semanco are joined by producer Jordan Phillips to talk all things Thanksgiving. What are the best Thanksgiving foods? Thanksgiving Traditions? Then enjoy some Thanksgiving trivia you can share around the family dinner this Thanksgiving. If you have feedback for the podcast, have a guest suggestion, or just want to talk to Scott, e-mail Scott@thesi...

Special Guests Brittney Reeve and Haylie Hayes join Backstage with the Simple Church today to talk about having their lives changed in Honduras, raising money for Honduras Water Project, and the extremes they've gone to #DoGood the last few years!  Find out more and donate at www. Walk118.org . CLICK HERE for their previous podcast. CLICK HERE for Beau's Podcast. Check out Honduras Well Projects H...

Special Guest Host Robyn Horton, the Do Good Pastor at the Simple Church, fills in today to talk all about the incredible work Africa New Life is doing in the country of Rwanda, what child sponsorship can do to change a life forever, and why you should consider becoming a sponsor.  CLICK HERE if you're interested in becoming a sponsor.  Check out www. AfricaNewLife.org  for more information about...

It's the triumphant return of Justin and John's Dad, Pops, on the Backstage podcast this week. Justin, John and Pops join Scott to talk about the holidays, what it was like growing up, and what's coming up at the Simple Church this holiday season. Plus lots of non-sense.    If you missed the 2021 Father's Day Episode with Pops, click here to check it out.   If you have feedback for the podcast, ha...

Happy Halloween Week! Blake Lawson fills in for Scott Odom again, and Evan, Blake, and producer Jordan Phillips talk about their Halloween costumes as kids, their favorite candy, and then play a Halloween Trivia game! If you listen to this before October 30th, join us at Hurricane Alley behind Beauxjax for Worship Night! We are also having baptism and will take communion, check out all the upcomin...

Today we brought on the former most interesting man in the Simple Church, Bill McConathy, to talk about 15 years of the Simple Church doing good and trying to help feed people and combat hunger while #DoingGood. Co-Host Evan Semanco and fill in co-host Blake Lawson talk about mission trips we've taken, the tens of thousands of people we have helped feed, and we we need to keep Doing Good.  Join us...

Today on Backstage with the Simple Church it's all about baptism, co-hosts Evan Semanco and substitute host Blake Lawson (Middle School Pastor, regular co-host Scott Odom replacement) talk with Simple Church Care Pastor Bryan Reed, our staff seminarian, about what baptism actually is, why it is so important as a Christian, do you need to be baptized multiple Times, and more.  Then Blake throws Bry...

This week's podcast set the record for most guests on one podcast in history of Backstage with the Simple Church! Recorded in the "Closet of Regret" at the Shreveport Convention Center, we had Greg Walker, Matt Moseley, Mary Allred, Ben Abshire, and Daniel Nelson from the rotating Simple Church Band with co-hosts Scott Odom and Evan Semanco to talk about why we do music differently then most churc...

Our special guest on this episode was Beau Hayes, partner in Beauxjax Crafthouse and  the Eastbank District in Bossier City and Simple Church Partner. Co-Hosts Evan Semanco and Scott Odom talk to Beau about how he got started with a food truck, barely making it and stories from getting started, how Beauxjax actually happened, and his struggle with alcohol and hitting rock bottom. It's a great stor...