Exponential Australia Church Leaders Podcast

🎙️ “Let Me Show You How to Build My Church”In this compelling episode of the Exponential Australia Church Leaders Podcast, we sit down with keynote speaker Nadia Marychurch in the lead-up to Exponential Conference 2025. From years in a prominent New Zealand church to planting from scratch in Ottawa, Nadia shares her deeply personal journey of simplification, soul work, and the unexpected beauty of...

In this special episode of the Exponential Australia Church Leaders Podcast, we’re joined once again by Jon Tyson, Lead Pastor of Church of the City New York and a keynote speaker at this year’s National Conference. From the heart of Times Square to the local streets of Australia, Jon shares his deep sense of hope for the global Church—pointing to signs of spiritual hunger, unity across movements,...

🎙️ New Episode: “Thou Shalt Not Burn Out” with Mindy CaliguireIn this rich and timely conversation, Charlie sits down with spiritual formation leader and Soul Care founder Mindy Caliguire ahead of her keynote at the Exponential Australia National Conference. Together they explore the deep and often overlooked connection between leadership health and soul health—and why a life at “Godspeed” might b...

🎙️ New Episode – Jackie Pullinger: Called to Go, Compelled by Love In this special episode of the Exponential Australia Church Leaders Podcast, we’re joined by one of our 2025 National Gathering keynote speakers, Jackie Pullinger — a missionary icon whose decades of ministry in Hong Kong’s infamous Walled City have stirred faith and bold obedience around the world. Jackie shares her remarkable jou...

HINGE MOMENTS & FRESH FACES This is one of our more exciting episodes of 2025. This fortnight we are joined by four different church planting couples from across Australia, and from four different denominations, all being called to plant great churches in 2025. We hear of their exhilarating and unique journeys, the stirring that led to their planting, and the creative and unique contributions...

WHERE THERE IS DISCIPLE MAKING, THERE IS MOVEMENTThis fortnight we are joined by a bit of an Aussie Church Planting legend, in Colin Stoodley. Late last year Colin released his manifesto, after many years of church planting and consultancy, across multiple denominations and networks, entitled "The Genius in the Kingdom". In this podcast Colin talks about some of the sustainable markers of healthy...

THE GOD WHO SEESThis fortnight we are delighted to be joined, all the way from the UK, by Kate Coleman. Kate shares her journey as one who is passionate about breaking ground for God. Both as one that was saved from no Christian background, thrown into Christian leadership in a tradition that initially did not recognise her as a leader, and a multiplicity of ways that she has been breaking ground...

THE FUTURE IS BI-VOCATIONALThis fortnight we are joined by author, Andrew Hamilton. This is a touching episode as we dive both into his recent family tragedy, and the pains and promises of God that come with that. As well as focusing upon Andrew's big passion of Bi Vocational Ministry; opportunities to vocationally work alongside our ministry for the purposes of mission, pragmatics, and financ...

ECOSYSTEMS & PLANTING This fortnight we are joined by our friend across the ditch, Jonathan Dove. Jonathan both leads Grace City Church in Auckland, in addition to helping to lead the Auckland Church Leaders Network. In this conversation Jonathan shares about the significance of ecosystems, and the WHOLE church in its flourishing. Morover, Jonathan shares about how integral planting is, and th...

WE DIDN'T PLAN FOR THIS! This fortnight we are joined by another pair of incredible church planters, husband and wife Carla and Seb Ferla. They share some of the journey of coming out of an existing church in the middle of the pandemic, and the growing call to plant a new church all the while being bi-vocational in their ministry endevours. Sometimes the Lord just lays things on our hearts, th...

GATHERING & MOBILISING THE GLOBAL CHURCH Welcome back to the Exponential Australia Leaders Podcast! We are kicking off with a bang, hearing from Jennie Allen, Founder and Leader of a global initiative, GATHER25! Hear directly from Jennie about what its all about, how you and your church can get involved, and the unheralded opportunities for the church in Australia amongst other nations in 2025...

CULTURAL SHIFTS Oxford in many ways has been the centre of intellect, adademic, and also secularlism over the last 50 years. Yet quite incredible, it has a remarkable Christian heritage, that the Lord is re-writing as we speak! This fortnight we hear from Stephen Foster, who is the Rector and Leader of St Aldates Instagram - www.instagram.com/exponential_australia Facebook - www.facebook.com/expon...

JUSTICE & KINGDOM TRANSFORMATION This fortnight we are joined by Beck Wilesmith, Senior Advisor as part of the team at Micah. Micah is doing an incredible job around the country with respect to relational advocacy, and speaking up in a reasoned way on behalf of the church when it comes to aid, politics, and some of the significant global and local issues in our community. Whether we like it or...

WORKERS FOR THE HARVEST This fortnight we are joined by the National Leader of Circuit Riders, a US founded ministry, now flourishing here in Australia. Madison shares some of their strategy, and their enormous heart in particular for campus' ministry, mobilizing the body towards evangelism and the Great Commission. This happens through events, evangelism schools for young adults, and vigor and pa...

LEADING FROM A PLACE OF REST This fortnight we are delighted to be joined by author and Spiritual Director, Strahan Coleman. Strahan brings some beautiful insights with regards to leading and pioneering from a place of rest, and the difference between fruitfulness and productivity in ministry. This is a huge challenge for church planters and pioneers! Strahan also speaks to the emergence and conve...

JOIN US NEXT MONTH! We are delighted to be hosting Sarah and her husband Tom, in Australia just next month! This is Sarah's second time on the podcast, and first time joining us part of an Exponential Australia regional tour. As part of their time here, we will be hosting mini-events in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. These events will focus on Church Leaders and Planters, and how...

GOSPEL FAITHFULNESS This fortnight we are joined by well known Church Planting leader, Andrew Heard. Andrew is the planter, and leader of EV Church on the Central Coast of NSW, as well as being involved in a wide range of initaitives including Reach Australia and the "Fellowship of Independent Evangelistical Churches". Andrew shares from his many years of planting churches, presenting th...

LIFELONG LEARNING & LEADING IN PAIN This fortnight we are joined by the wonderful Sue Irwin. Sue is the Senior Pastor of "The Grainery Church" in Newcastle. Sue share both her journey, as well as some of the elements that have made her into the lifelong learner that she is, and some of the deep seasons of pain and grief she has endured. There are so many nuggets to cling to here! The...

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DEVELOPING PATHWAYS & TRAINING TEAMS The Church Co. builds church websites completely for free. They will handle the migration of your existing website over to their platform and can even manage it ongoing for you. The Church Co. is a complete digital platform for churches including websites, apps, giving, prayer, small groups, SEO, Google advertising and more. Best of all it's integrated...

NOT WHAT YOU EXPECT This fortnight we are joined by well known author and speaker, Jeff Vandersteldt. Jeff shares widely concerning his experiences with Willow, Acts 29, and more recently in his passion for make disciples through missional communities. Yet this episode is not what you expect. Jeff's life taken a wild ride towards the interior life of leaders, and the attachment or detachment m...

ON THE CUSP This fortnight we are joined again by church planters who are on the front line, giving it a go! We are joined by Daniel and Michiko who are planting Cultivate Church. We hear how God has taken them into the unexpected, and used all there different ministry experiences and passions to be used for and by him. We also hear some of the very real pressures that planters face first hand. He...

PIONEERING AND INSITUTIONALISM This fortnight we are joined by Jason Elsmore. Jason along with his wife Susan, incredibly both leads Gateway Baptist as well as leading the leadership and ministry initiatives of the Queensland Baptists. Jason is a rare cut of a leader, who share about his incredible story of being impacted by Jesus through the local church. Jason shares particularly around the dich...

WHAT QUESTIONS ARE OUR COMMUNITIES ACTUALLY ASKING? This fortnight we are joined by Nic MacKay, who leads an exciting community orientated initiative known as NAYBAH. The foundation of all church planting should be the gospels engagement with the communities around us. And so accordingly, how can we get to the bottom of this? Nic speaks at length about the ways we can audit and understand what our...