LAUNCH Podcast with Anthony Delaney

Church Leadership – local, national and global Anthony and Ness discuss the challenges and opportunities of leading a church and a network of churches. Ness expressed her gratitude for being able to lead a local church and a network, as it allows her to connect with the complexities of church leadership and pass on her experiences.   They also touched on the importance of humility, love, and grace...

Paul Lloyd with his wife Vicky leads Victory Outreach Church in Salford and they travel globally as part of that incredible ministry. He had a background in combat sports but after an injury in his teens he fell into depression which took him into the world of Eastend and Essex gangs, heroin addiction and crime. He talks with ex-cop Anthony about why people get addicted and how at 27 years of age...

Anthony and Graham discussed the importance of integrating faith and sports, emphasizing the need for a holistic approach to ministry that supports athletes beyond their achievements. They explored the challenges and opportunities in engaging with different cultures through sports, highlighting the transformative power of faith and the influence of Christian athletes. The conversation also touched...

Jon is the co-founding pastor of Community Christian Church in Chicago where he provides leadership in new ventures. COMMUNITY has grown from a handful of people to a church with hundreds of leaders and thousands of people celebrating at locations throughout Chicagoland. Jon is also one of COMMUNITY’s Lead Teaching Pastors. In addition, Jon led in the launch of NewThing, a church-planting movement...

Luke Greenwood is passionate about evangelism and discipleship among alternative scenes of the Global Youth Culture. He lives in Wrocław, Poland with his wife Ania and two children. As Steiger Europe Director, Luke’s vision is to see Jesus proclaimed to young people all over the continent, and to establish dynamic, long-term City Teams in key urban centres, that reach and equip the Global Youth Cu...

Geoff has been in ministry for 40+ years as a lead pastor and executive pastor. He was one of the early pioneers of the multisite church movement, overseeing the campus expansion of Seacoast Church and Saddleback Church. He also served as the Managing Director of Exponential and has authored or co-authored four books. For the past 15 years Geoff has coached leaders across the U.S. and Europe (incl...

Daniel Ghinn leads Worship Works, formed from a passion to see business transforming lives and the kingdom of God going beyond an hour on Sunday.  Paul wrote to the Colossians that when we work with all our hearts as though God is our boss, it's worship.  Listen in as Anthony finds out more and they discuss the theology of work as a blessing - not a curse, as a calling - not a chore and as God's s...

Steve Small is passionate about Jesus and mission, especially in our urban estates and schemes. Steve is part of the staff team at Ivy Church leading us on deployment for mission. He has three young boys and is married to Sarah and together they head up the Eden Network for the Message Trust.    Anthony says... “When I first came back to Manchester, Steve was one of the first people I met at Ivy C...

Mary Thomason is the WTC Theology Hub Director in Manchester. She is passionate about theology, people, God’s presence and the Kingdom of God. Born and bred in Manchester, but has lived in Uganda, the U.S, and even venturing down south near London for many years. Mary has a BA and MA in Theology, and has worked in mission, church ministry and in business management. Over the years she has been inv...

We just celebrated 20,000 downloads! Thanks for being part of that. Please help us share the podcast. Write a review on your favourite platform to encourage others.   Today Anthony is the guest, and he asks himself various questions including:   Will the local church make the world go WOW this Christmas (I mean in a good way, not ‘Wow – that’s so lame!’)   How can we make the most of the opportuni...

My friend Patrick O’Connell is the Global Director of NewThing, the network which I and Ivy Church are privileged to be part of, which exists to partner with movement makers and catalyse reproducing disciples, leaders, churches, networks, and movements.  Here he tells the story of how he came to faith, having met his wife in a punk rock mosh pit, joined the army, he went into business and while fi...

I met Julian Richards at a wedding recently, and as we chatted immediately he felt like 'a brother from the same Father...'!  He's the National Leader for New Wine Cymru (that means Wales in case anyone wonders), working together with over 700 other churches to collectively and collaboratively grow to help leaders develop healthy churches to win the nation.  With his wife Sarah he leads Cornerston...

I met Chris Wickland last year when he came as one of the guest speakers at a leader's retreat. I’ll never forget his incredible story of how he went from witchcraft to Christ.  Having been aware of the supernatural realm and its realities more than most, Chris described seeing and hearing visions and dreams which have led to him publicly declaring major words regarding the church and the nations...

An apostolic missionary to the UK, Jonathan came from Nigeria in 1991 to the UK for three weeks - when God told him he is here 'by divine design' - so he stayed!  Having planted many churches and movements including the Global and National days of prayer, filling stadiums and raising faith - he focuses on claiming the rejuvenation of the church to continue the story from the book of Acts in our da...

I met today's guest when I overheard him in a coffee queue sharing in a very understated way how miracles started happening more and more, when he actually started praying for them! "I'd never seen a blind person see, but now it's happened quite a lot." I rather rudely interrupted - desperate to find out more, and if you are too you'll love to meet Thomas.  He will be joining us at LAUNCHCATALYST....

EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE, KNOWING JESUS. Well talk about a big vision! How can it become a reality?  Dr Rachel Jordan-Wolf will be joining us at this year’s LAUNCH (See launchcataylst.org for the best deal available for you and your team.   Rachel is executive director of HOPE Together in the UK, having worked closely with the initiative since 2010, when she was the Church of England’s National Missio...

William Vanderbloemen is a former pastor who went into the business world and became on to become an entrepreneur as CEO/ founder of Vanderbloemen Search Group, an international executive search company that has helped thousands of churches, ministries, schools, universities and faith-based organisations build great cultures with great people in the right place.  He will be sharing with us at LAUN...

Oscar is Executive Leader of Deliverance Church International in Kenya which meets in 4 locations currently under that name but because since its inception in 1984 their vision's founding scriptures in Matt. 28:19 and Gen. 1:22) have led them to not only grow to 10,000 in attendance there but also planting 2000 churches across the nation and surrounding nations. He is an author and serves on the b...

"Three wheelchairs were left on the streets of Leicester, people healed and saved, wonderful things happening! We are at the verge of a great move of God that is more out there than what is with in the four walls of our church… We have found a 30 to 40% increase of people wanting to know about Jesus!”  Are we seeing the end of the powerless church - while at the same time the Lord is raising up a...

We are back! Subscribe so you don't miss any of the others we've got in the pipeline. Over 16,000 downloads in, post sabbatical Anthony is more excited than ever about this podcast and it helps greatly if you review us and share with others please.  Today (after he actually forgets the name of his own podcast) Anthony interviews Rev John McGinley, leader of Myriad, a ministry with the tremendous v...

This conversation with Dr James Emery White covers a large number of topics, drawing lessons from 40 years of leadership, discussing CS Lewis vs Tolkien and the dangers of the ‘lotus position’. Do join us at LAUNCH RE:PLANT on October 3rd and 4th where Dr White will be one of our speakers. Enjoy this great conversation and see more from Jim on the Church and Culture blog and podcast .

This is Part 2 of a conversation with Keri Ladouceur, a pastor in Naperville, Illinois and founder and lead coach at New Ground Network. The conversation Anthony had with Keri touched on so many important points and is therefore split into two episodes. Following Part 1 this conversation continues to go into great resources for culture formation, things people misunderstand about Keri and what wor...

This is Part 1 of a conversation with Keri Ladouceur, a pastor in Naperville, Illinois and founder and lead coach at New Ground Network. The conversation Anthony had with Keri touched on so many important points and is therefore split into two episodes. In this first episode they speak about what it means to establish goodness cultures that truly mean that what we are multiplying is the the cultur...

James Ray is the UK leader of XCC, the ' Xtreme Character Challenge ' which takes men on mind, body, soul adventures. Anthony and around 30 men from Ivy Church went to Scotland on one of these 72 hour events in Scotland. Anthony says in this episode that the XCC was the most significant spiritual experience he has had personally in the last 20 years of ministry, a sentiment echoed by all of the Iv...

This conversation touches on much of what we'll be diving into at LAUNCH RE:PLANT in October. Steve Uppal ( All Nations Movement ) will be one of the speakers joining us there and we're excited to be able to share this conversation with Anthony with you today.  This episode dives into the struggles leaders face when they're truly pioneering new things, the importance and opportunities present when...