Michigan Ministry Network L3 Podcast

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode, we have Curt Demoff, lead pastor of Bridgewood church talking with us on what it's like leading a creative church in the community. Why is creativity so important in a local church? "The mission never changes, but the methods do and creativity attacks the method." We...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode, we have Thomas Finley, lead pastor at Fairhaven Assembly of God, sharing on the benefits of diversity in the local church. Should we push for diversity in our churches? Why does it matter so much? We need to have people of different backgrounds cultures, and thoughts because it pa...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode, we have Jim Westheim, Next Steps Pastor at Faith Alive Church sharing about the role executive pastoring and the principles of serving in the role with excellence. How does this role fully function? How are you supposed to carry out the lead pastors vision well? What do you as in...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode, we have Bobby Hill, worship/discipleship pastor at The Gateway Church, sharing with us his wisdom on how to build a worship ministry structure. Most of what goes into a good worship ministry happens behind the scenes. There are different systems that need to be in place in order f...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode, we have Chad Deerman, lead pastor of Faith Alive Church talking about how to cultivate culture in a local church. It isn't good enough just to "create" culture. We need to find ways to sustain and grow the culture as well. "Culture is created from the top, susta...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode, we have Brenda Maurer, Senior Pastor at Cornerstone Assembly of God, sharing with us how to make intentional change within our churches and ministries. We discuss how to get your church excited about the changes, how to deal with conflict that may/will arise, and how you as the le...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode, we have Aaron Robinson, Spiritual Life Director at The Power Company Kids Club sharing with us the importance of understanding different cultures and people groups. Not everyone from the same culture or skin color has the same likes and dislikes, dreams and visions, skills and fau...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode, we have Shannon Shaffer, worship pastor at Auburn Hills Christian Center sharing with us the personal disciplines of a worship leader. If we are called to lead others into a space of praise, awe, and worship, we should be able to find that outside of leading on a stage. We need to...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode, we have Ben Vegh, lead pastor of The Gateway Church. Our discussion today revolves around being able to evaluate where your church is at with honesty. You need to be able to look through the history of the church, the fruit of the people that attend, and answer honestly if your ch...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode, we have Richard Colon, Lead pastor at Santos Church talking about how the church has an amazing opportunity to be diverse in culture to reach the communities around us. We're not all called to look the same, speak the same way, reach the same people. We have a specific communi...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode, we have Kamron Oberlin, lead pastor of Greater Lansing First, teaches us how to move the church's vision forward with limited resources. How can we have big vision with very little resources? What do we do with that vision and how do we truly trust God to fulfill the vision? W...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On todays episode we have Tina Hudson, Youth Pastor at Carleton Assembly of God Church. Our discussion today revolves around being a great staff member. Tina has served under 5 different lead pastors at the same church and has lots of insight into what it's like watching transitions happen around her...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On todays episode we have Travis Buerky, Lead Pastor at Hickory Ridge Community Church, back with us again talking about what it takes to build a successful worship team. How do you balance styles, egos, talents and callings within people when it comes to putting them on stage to lead your people in wors...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On todays episode we have Travis Buerky, Lead Pastor at Hickory Ridge Community Church, sharing with us his experience on both sides of being a worship leader working with a lead pastor, and being said lead pastor. Musical worship is a huge part of our services nowadays. We need to be on the same page ac...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On todays episode we have Rob King, lead pastor at Trinity Assembly sharing with us the mistakes leaders make in ministry and what we can learn from them. If you're just starting out in ministry, or have been in it for 30+ years, there is wisdom for everyone to get something out of today's conver...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On todays episode we have Jeff Haddon, young adult pastor at Trinity Assembly of God. Today we discuss all things young adults. How do we engage them where they are? How can we help them with their call to ministry? What happens if we don't reach out and have a place for them in our churches and team...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On todays episode we have Jamie Kjos, lead pastor of Brightmoor church, helping us through what it takes to make BIG decisions in ministry. If you're in charge of your church or ministry, you need to be able to make big decisions not just for you, but for your team. Leaders sometimes become fearful o...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On todays episode we have our former superintendent, Jeff Hlavin! Today's topic is all about handling betrayal in ministry. One of the first things we need to figure out is if it's true betrayal or just a misunderstanding or feeling even annoyed. What do we do with those true betrayals that come...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On todays episode, we have Christy Demoff from Bridgewood Church. Today, we have a great discussion on keeping your family healthy when in the thick of ministry. There are many attacks that come our way as ministers of the gospel and some of those attacks are targeted at our kids. There's a tension b...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On todays episode, we have James Courter, lead pastor at Faith Church. Discouragement is a part of life, but it's not supposed to define us. Today, we discuss how to recognize and handle discouragement in ministry. We need to address it rather than try to ignore it before we become too acquainted wit...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On todays episode, we have Angelo Fleece, lead pastor at Rock Church. Today, we continue the discussion on church planting. Pastor Angelo shares his wisdom with us about when he was going through the planting process talking about the lessons he's learned along the way. For more information on the Mi...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On todays episode, we have Jim Wiegand, lead pastor of Freedom Center Church talking about the importance of planting new churches. Why do we need more churches? Because the world needs Jesus and we're called to bring the truth to it. We need more church planters. We need those who have a burden and pass...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On todays episode, we have Steve Gallegos, Children Ministries Pastor at Auburn Hills Christian Center. Steve has been on staff for over 21 years serving under the same leadership. There are certain qualities that people look for in leadership to stay on as long as he has. Today, he shares his wisdom wit...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On todays episode, we have John Opalewski, owner of Converge Coaching speaking with us on the importance of rest! As pastors and leaders, we will sometimes push ourselves beyond what we're capable of because we are so passionate about the call. However, this isn't a good long term strategy. We need to le...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On todays episode, we have Dave Barringer, lead pastor at Kalamazoo First. Today, we are talking about marriages! We've seen people do marriage and ministry well, and we've seen marriage take a backseat to ministry at times as well. God's goal is unity in all things and that starts in our marriages. We t...