Church for the Rest of Us Podcast

CFTROU 0135: Church Reimagined: Standardization vs. Customization To continue our exploration of this season's focus on the church reimagined, today we are joined by Pastor Larry Mayer and Pastor Jose DaSilva to discuss the balance between standardization and customization for your church! There are clear benefits to each of these avenues, and as you will hear from our guests, finding the right am...

CFTROU 0134: Church Reimagined: 52 Special Events a Year On this episode, we are joined by Aaron Filippone, Campus Pastor of Family Church Gardens. Our discussion centers around growing our Sunday morning church services – our 52 special events a year. How do we go about doing this? We talk about some of practical ways we have approached this. Our team shares the tools we've made use of in this se...

CFTROU 0133: Church Reimagined: Church Revitalizations with Mark Clifton from NAMB In previous years, churches that were less attended were ultimately destined to close their doors for good. However, these days there is a new trend towards revitalizing and replanting these churches. Today we are joined by Mark Clifton, Senior Director of Church Replanting at the North American Mission Board and au...

CFTROU 0132: Making Multisite Work – Dean Inserra at City Church in Tallahassee On this episode, we’re joined by Dean Inserra, the founding and lead pastor of City Church in Tallahassee, Florida. Pastor Dean was called to start a church in his hometown while he was the Student Body President at Leon High School. He is passionate about sharing the gospel with the people in Tallahassee. His vision i...

CFTROU 0131B8: Bonus: Full Circle Parenting PRE-ORDER BOOK Family life is important, if you lead a ministry team, or whatever your situation may be. The good news is that you can do everything that God wants you to do with your ministry and family with resources you have, right now! On today's episode, we welcome Pastor Jimmy’s wife, Kristin, and two of their kids Stephen and Anna Kate. We're goin...

CFTROU 0130: Church Reimagined: Large Gatherings Are Out, Neighborhood Church Is In This past year has been filled with uncertainty and now, as we navigate our new reality in a post-COVID-19 world, we are reimagining the way we do church. So what does that mean for us at the church one year on? Our model hasn't changed. We are putting all of our efforts on building up the neighborhood church to ta...

CFTROU 0129 - Church Reimagined - Replant, Renew & Reimagine All of us have to rethink, replant, and reimagine our churches. Even though fewer people are physically attending church due to the new reality we are in, we still have an opportunity to be outposts for the Lord, Jesus Christ. For the next several podcast episodes, we will be talking about the church reimagined – how can we replant, rene...

CFTROU 0127B7: Bonus Episode: CFTROU Conference Live We're bringing you a recording from a recent preconference event at our Church for the Rest of Us Conference. At this conference our team at Family Church shared principles, strategies, and ideas that churches of any size can use with the resources they have – right now. Joining us on this recording is a panel of pastors we have built relationsh...

CFTROU 0126: Regathering During COVID-19: Creative Next Steps Get podcast updates delivered to your inbox. Subscribe for free and never miss out on an episode of Church for the Rest of Us. Subscribe via Email iTunes Google Play Stitcher RSS If you like us, rate us or leave a comment below. Hopefully, this episode has given you principles, strategies, and ideas that you can implement right now with...

CFTROU 0125: Regathering During COVID-19: Kids Ministry 2.0 Get podcast updates delivered to your inbox. Subscribe for free and never miss out on an episode of Church for the Rest of Us. Subscribe via Email iTunes Google Play Stitcher RSS If you like us, rate us or leave a comment below. Hopefully, this episode has given you principles, strategies, and ideas that you can implement right now with t...

CFTROU 0124: Regathering During COVID-19: First Impressions As we regather, we made some changes regarding our hospitality teams and processes in our new reality. On this episode we detail how we have navigated these changes. We noticed that people are willing to come back to church in person, however, they are doing that at their own pace. Today on the show we are joined by Bev Bonner, who overse...

CFTROU 0123: Regathering During COVID-19: Performance Reviews On this episode, we are discussing annual performance reviews. It’s that time of year and these year-end reviews are a big part of our culture here at Family Church. We set goals, we have measurables, we evaluate multiple times a year, and the year-end reviews give us a great opportunity to continue the conversation to develop our peopl...

CFTROU 0122: Being Proactive vs. Reactive As we press forward in our ever-changing reality, we remain focused on our mission and vision. It’s important for us to maintain a learner’s posture, especially as we navigate through this pandemic together. However, when possible, we prefer being proactive versus reactive; playing offense instead of defense. On this episode, our CFO, Scott Crawford, joins...

CFTROU 0121B6: Bonus Episode – How Christians Exercise Their Citizenship As believers we want to keep Jesus at the Center of Our Politics. We've created a video resource on how we can focus on the truths that unite us rather than the politics that can divide us. Invite your family and friends to watch this together. Let’s be united as gospel outposts in the neighborhoods where we serve, work, and...

CFTROU 0121B5: Church Revitalization with Mike Richardson We’re taking a break from our COVID-19 conversations and discussing the topic of revitalization. Revitalization isn’t easy and it takes time. All of us have to think about how to move our organizations forward to what God is calling us to do in this time. On this episode, we welcome our guest Pastor Mike Richardson. Pastor Mike is the senio...

CFTROU 0121: Regathering During COVID-19: Student Ministry Doing life together in community is important to our church family. During the pandemic, there’s an even greater appetite for this, during this season of social distancing. Joining us on this episode are Tyler Core, Pastor to Students and Families, and Garrett Haywood, Minister to Middle School Students. They lead our Student Ministry and...

CFTROU 0120: Evangelize in a Crisis – Sam Chan – Part 2 We continue our conversation with Dr. Sam Chan. An expert on visual communication, he also has a PhD in Theology and works as a surgical assistant. In part 1, we talked about evangelism in a post-COVID-19 world. In part 2, Sam weighs in on how to have important conversations about Jesus and conduct your ministry during the pandemic. He compar...

CFTROU 0119: Evangelize in a Crisis: Sam Chan Part 1 COVID-19 has prompted many churches to pivot to online church. At Family Church, we have built our online presence to offer this as well. We call it Family Church at Home. As we continue to press forward, what will church look like post-COVID-19? On this episode, we speak with Dr. Sam Chan, who is not only a practicing medical doctor, but also h...

CFTROU 0118: Leading Through COVID-19: Ordinances in a Crisis God has continued to work through this crisis and in today’s discuss we talk specifically about how He has done that through the ordinances. We have continued to take the Lord’s Supper and baptize people. In this episode we discuss how we have navigated through these ordinances online and how they’ve impacted people in the form of perso...

CFTROU 0117: Leading Through COVID-19: Regathering FC We recently regathered with our church family this past Sunday. This was our first in-person gathering since March 2020. 10 out of our 12 campuses reopened and on this episode we have representation from several of our neighborhood churches. We talk about how it felt to be back in church wearing masks, how to handle difficult situations, and th...

CFTROU00 0116: Leading Through COVID-19: Chapel Services and Beyond In our last podcast, we discussed our plans for regathering with our church family in-person. Due to inclement weather, we had to postpone our regathering plans until the following weekend, so in this episode we expand on that topic and what we have learned during the coronavirus pandemic. As we were preparing for the possibility...

CFTROU 0115: Leading Through COVID-19: Family Reunion Chapel Services. The safest place to do church is Family Church at Home online, but it’s beginning to be time again for people to have the choice to meet together, face-to-face. We, at Family Church, are about to reopen. We have not been open since March 8th, 2020. For five months we have not been back together, in person! So we’ve decided to d...

Episode 0114: Leading Through COVID-19: Coping Through a Crisis. The shifting winds of the coronavirus can be a blow to any pastor leading a ministry. We don’t know which way the winds are blowing and one can easily feel knocked off your pins. Through it all we’ve been challenged to be adaptable, flexible, and agile as we steer through these out of sync times — not only from an organizational poin...

Episode 0113: Leading Through COVID-19: The Creative Path Forward. What does it take to still maintain a quality online presence as we plan the process of reopening and launching our Family Reunion phase, post the Coronapocolypse? On today’s episode of Church For The Rest Of Us podcast, we talk to Pastors Christian Ramos and Seth Carter about our approach to making our resources work for both a qu...

Episode 0112: Leading Through COVID-19: Communications and Branding As we navigate through the coronapocolypse we see that social media, branding, and design have become critical in how we do church. Our Family Church Network Communications Team joins us today. Led by our Communications and Executive Staff Director, Leslee Bennett, we discuss our network communications strategy in having a dual fo...