Cultiv8ing Ministry

Welcome to the Cultiv8ing Ministry Podcast. In this week's episode our team jumps into a conversation around hospitality and the role it plays in ministry. Many congregations and ministries describe themselves as friendly and/or welcoming, but hospitality takes it a step further. We share our thoughts around what defines hospitality and what doesn't and why it is important to enahnce your...

Welcome to the Cultiv8ing Ministry Podcast. If you are connected to the United Methodist world, you know that General Conference began this week in Charlotte, NC. Our team is joined this week by Amanda Onks, a delegate to General Conference from Johnson City, TN to talk about what we expect from General Conference. We talk about what we expect to see, where we find hope and much more in this episo...

Welcome to the Cultiv8ing Ministry Podcast. Our teams noticed something interesting as we walked through the recent solar eclipse. There was a lot of talk around what was going to happen. Was the world ending? Would our computers still work? And on and on. That got us to thinking about how fear is a major factor in our culture each and everyday. So on this week's pod we talk about the prevalen...

Welcome to the Cultiv8ing Ministry Podcast. Our bi-monthly book club is back this month as we discuss Tod Bolsinger's book Canoeing The Mountains. Bolsinger's book addresses adaptive leadership by taking a look at the exploration of Lewis and Clark. We give our take on the five key principles that Bolsinger identifies in the book that is designed to help you navigate leading through unchar...

Welcome to the Cultiv8ing Ministry Podcast. This week, we return to our regular routined of sharing our take on leadership in ministry by talking about how we can do MORE by doing LESS. It is quite the paradox, but we offer some insight into how we have sen this play out in our own lives leading ministry, and offer some tips to help you mazimize your potential as well. We wrap up our pod with the...

Welcome to the Cultiv8ing Ministry Podcast. For the Lenten season this year we are trying something a bit different on the Cutliv8ing Ministry Podcast. Rather than talking about a specific leadership topic, we will spend the season of Lent sharing weekly reflections on weekly scripture readings for Lent. This week we discuss Mark 1:1-11 as we have a conversation about Jesus' entry into Jerusal...

Welcome to the Cultiv8ing Ministry Podcast. For the Lenten season this year we are trying something a bit different on the Cutliv8ing Ministry Podcast. Rather than talking about a specific leadership topic, we will spend the season of Lent sharing weekly reflections on weekly scripture readings for Lent. This week we discuss John 12:20-33. The discussion, as is usually the case, goes all over the...

Welcome to the Cultiv8ing Ministry Podcast. For the Lenten season this year we are trying something a bit different on the Cutliv8ing Ministry Podcast. Rather than talking about a specific leadership topic, we will spend the season of Lent sharing weekly reflections on weekly scripture readings for Lent. This week we discuss John 3: 14-21, which contains John 3:16, probably the most qouted passage...

Welcome to the Cultiv8ing Ministry Podcast. For the Lenten season this year we are trying something a bit different on the Cutliv8ing Ministry Podcast. Rather than talking about a specific leadership topic, we will spend the season of Lent sharing weekly reflections on weekly scripture readings for Lent. This week we discuss John 2:13-22, that familiar passage where Jesus turns over the tables of...

Welcome to the Cultiv8ing Ministry Podcast. For the Lenten season this year we are trying something a bit different on the Cutliv8ing Ministry Podcast. Rather than talking about a specific leadership topic, we will spend the season of Lent sharing weekly reflections on weekly scripture readings for Lent. This week we discuss Mark 8:31-37. The discussion revolves around how we have experienced nays...

Welcome to the Cultiv8ing Ministry Podcast. This week we begin start something a bit different on the Cutliv8ing Ministry Podcast. Rather than talking about a specific leadership topic, we will spend the season of Lent sharing weekly reflections on weekly scripture readings for Lent. This week we discuss Mark 1:9-13 as Jesus is baptized by John, and then sent into the wilderness. After our discuss...

Welcome to the Cultiv8ing Ministry Podcast. This week is a busy week as we have seen as Super Bowl, Fat Tuesday, and now have Valentine's Day and Ash Wednesday on the same day. We cover a bit of all of that, but focus our time talking about Ash Wednesday and our plans for the lenten season here on the Cultiv8ing Minsitry podcast. Our random fact of the week might be worth a lot of money if you...

Welcome to the Cultiv8ing Ministry Podcast. This week we mix things up a bit and rather than having a specific topic, we take turns sharing something good that we have experienced in the last month or so of ministry. The conversation turned into discussion around why we tend to focus on the negative in ministry rather than celebrating the good things. We also have way too long of a conversation ab...

Welcome to the Cultiv8ing Ministry Podcast. This week we have a fantastic discussion about building trust in ministry as we share our thoughts from an article by Jen Bradbury entitled 5 Ways to Cultivate Trust With Teens In Your Youth Ministry. These tips apply not just to youth ministry, but to any ministry setting in our opinion, so take a listen to hear our thoughts and insigh into each of them...

Welcome to the Cultiv8ing Ministry Podcast. Welcome to the sencond part of our first ever book club podcast. We kicked off the book club podcast last weekand will wrap up our thoughts on Growing Young in this week's episode. In this episode we talk abou the last four of 6 essential strategies that churches can implement in order to be effecitve in connecting with young people. Take a listen, t...

Welcome to the Cultiv8ing Ministry Podcast. We are staring something new this year at the Cultiv8ing Ministry Podcast... we are launching a book club. Every other month or so on the podcast we will announce a book for you to read along with us and then we will record a podcast recapping what we learned from the book. The first book we are focusing on is Growing Young. We start walking through the...

Welcome to the Cultiv8ing Ministry Podcast. As you are settling in to the new year, maybe you are already thinking about how to better yourself in 2024. This week on the pod we talk about lifelong learning and the importance it plays in leading in ministry. Why is lifelong learning important, where do you start if you are looking for opportunities, and much more comes to light in our discussion. O...

Welcome to the Cultiv8ing Ministry Podcast. Happy New Year friends! We kick off the pod for 2024 with a discussion spawned from a Carey Niewhouf that challenges Christians and the church to move beyond simply attracting other Christians and towards reaching people for Christ. We talk about why this has become the norm, as well as offer some tips to focus more on reaching people for Christ and maki...

Welcome to the Cultiv8ing Ministry Podcast. This week we wrap up our 4 part series discussing each of the four themes of Advent (hope, peace, love, and joy) and what role they play in leading ministry. This week we focus on joy discussing the difference between joy and happiness, the importance of joy in leading ministry, and share some personal stories of how joy has been a part of our lives even...

Welcome to the Cultiv8ing Ministry Podcast. This week we continue our 4 part series discussing each of the four themes of Advent (hope, peace, love, and joy) and what role they play in leading ministry. This week we focus on love discussing the ultimate love that God showed for us by sending his son at Christmas. Additionally, we talk about the importance of love in leading ministry and the role l...

Welcome to the Cultiv8ing Ministry Podcast. This week we continue our 4 part series discussing each of the four themes of Advent (hope, peace, love, and joy) and what role they play in leading ministry. This week we focus on peace as we talk about how we define peace, where we find peace, and the role of peace in ministry. Sometimes it can be difficult to find a moment of peace during the advent s...

Welcome to the Cultiv8ing Ministry Podcast. This week we begin a 4 part series discussing each of the four themes of Advent (hope, peace, love, and joy) and what role they play in leading ministry. This week we focus on hope and dive into where to find hope this season, how hope impacts ministry and much more. We close out with the random fact of the week as Chris struggles to pronounce the work &...

Welcome to the Cultiv8ing Ministry Podcast. This week we are once again joined by our friend Tim Beck, a real live youth worker in a local church in Ohio to talk about the changing tides in ministry. We talk more about relevance, curiosity, the shift in how young people connect and what he church can learn from Taylor Swift. The random fact of the week is about an old school way to build your drea...

Welcome to the Cultiv8ing Ministry Podcast. This week we start a conversation with our friend Tim Beck, a real live youth worker in a local church in Ohio to talk about the changing tides in ministry. Ministry has never been easy, but it is made even more difficult by the rapid rate of change in our culture coupled with changes in church and teen culture as well. With the many changes happening ar...

Welcome to the Cultiv8ing Ministry Podcast. Newsflash: churches are shrinking all around the US. As church sizes diminish, there are more and more leaders are learning to navigate leading ministries in a small church context. This week Brad Fiscus, author of Small-er Church Youth Ministry joins the pod to share some insight and tips for leading in a small church context. It is a great conversation...