Microchurches

Welcome back to the Microchurches Podcast! We are kicking off Season 3 with hearing from Microchurches from around the world. In this episode, we'll hear from Miranda and Samir doing mission in Paris. We'll discuss the barriers they face in caring for and ministering to refugees they come across, and hear some of the amazing stories they have to tell. Register for the Microchurch Network Intensive...

To wrap up this series of microchurch stories from various networks, we hear from Lucas and Tomy once again as they debrief just some of the lessons and themes that came up in talking to these leaders. You will learn how although microchurch models are often so beautifully adapted to their contexts, there are underlying themes and values that allow them to be the church wherever they are planted....

This week we are doing a bonus episode with Matt Ulrich of Greenhouse church, who the Underground is partnering with to host the upcoming Microchurch Conference. You will hear about how microchurch DNA is in everything they do, despite having their largest attendance on Sunday mornings. By focusing on making disciples in a way that is organized but organic, the Greenhouse community continues to em...

In this episode of Microchurches, we continue our series with Matt Newman and Jerad Sears of Samaritan Church. While part of their rhythm includes a Sunday service as a traditional church would, they have adapted the microchurch model to empower and release missionaries to live and love like Jesus in their neighborhood - and in turn build bridges to sustainable relationships in the community. Join...

In this episode of Microchurches we hear from Pastor Will Francis of Be The Church Network, as he talks about how the callings and needs of their community came together to create this movement in Atlanta. You will learn more about what it looks like to contextualize the microchurch model given diverse leaders, location, and spiritual giftings. Join us in March of 2022 for the first ever Microchur...

Continuing in this series of hearing from network leaders and their microchurch stories, today we hear from Shawn Mitchell and Isaac Federiuk of the Catalyst Network in Portland, Oregon. Their team has done mission largely through construction and facility/home improvement projects. You will hear how what started as simply serving neighbors and community members with their skills became a chance f...

In our next episode of the series we talk with Taylor Rogers, the director of Wildfire Network in San Antonio, Texas. You will learn about the different ways that they engage with the needs of their community and be faithful to where Jesus calls them. In their contextualized version of microchurches, in what they call missions, you will hear about how they’ve cultivated a family in these smaller s...

This week we are kicking off a new series where we hear more stories from people doing mission in a microchurch setting, but specifically looking at the network model. In this episode we sit down with Joel Repic of Greenhouse Network, where he shares the development of their  network, the movements that have branched out from it, and the ways they’ve continued to grow and adapt according to t...

To wrap up the Microchurch Phases series, Tomy and Brian talk about Expansion and growth. In a culture where numbers and size are often what determine a church’s success, the goal of a microchurch is to model Kingdom mission by discipling and sending. You will hear how multiplication and expansion look different on a micro-scale, but are foundational to the journey of a missional community. Resour...

For this next episode and next Microchurch phase, we discuss Codification. In this particular phase, a microchurch leader will begin to notice what approaches and practices work for their community and the population they are trying to reach. After having gone through iteration and experimentation, this next phase allows for a microchurch to be shaped by where they’ve seen God move, and really be...

In this second episode of this conversation around microchurch phases, we sit down with Brian Sanders once again to discuss the phase of iteration. Some of the most important lessons that are learned in the journey of a microchurch happen in the process of trying things, adjusting, and continuing in some form of mission even when you fail. Resources mentioned: Microchurches by Brian Sanders

In this next series of Microchurches, we talk with Brian Sanders about how microchurches often begin, and what the ideation phase often looks like. You will learn best practices for answering the call to start a microchurch, as well as why this sacred process is such an important part of missionary life. Resources mentioned: Microchurches by Brian Sanders

To conclude the Missionary Journey series, we are joined again by Stacy Gaskins and Jeremy Stephens as we dive into experimenting, pivoting, and persevering. In this episode, you will hear about why missionary peers are so critical to these last phases of the journey of a missionary, and the ways that these moments of failing and pivoting continually bring us to a place of humility and dependence...

In this week's episode of Microchurches, we continue through hearing from Stacy Gaskins and Jeremy Stephens in our breakdown of the Missionary Journey. In this particular conversation, you will hear about the various ways that God calls us to start something new and how we can walk with those we are leading through listening to Jesus and having the confidence to answer the call to action. Resource...

In this week's episode of Microchurches, we continue through our conversation with Stacy Gaskins and Jeremy Stephens in our breakdown of the Missionary Journey. You will hear about the first two stages in the journey of a missionary, and how we can make spaces for our people to experience their own “altar moments” with the Lord, as well as walk with them through liminal moments that they may encou...

Welcome to Season 2 of Microchurches! This season, we are kicking things off with a deep dive into the Missionary Journey. In this episode, Stacy Gaskins and Jeremy Stephens give us a 30,000-foot view of the missionary journey, how it began as a study of persevering microchurch leaders, and how it's impacted missionaries since. Resources mentioned: Underground's Missionary Toolkit

In this episode of Microchurches, we continue in our conversation with Jeremy Stephens about the foundations of what a microchurch is. To conclude this series, you will learn about suffering within the missionary journey, and the ways that it brings us into intimacy with Jesus while simultaneously reminding us to surround ourselves with other missionary peers to journey with us. Resources mentione...

In this episode of Microchurches, we continue in our conversation with Jeremy Stephens about the basics and foundations of microchurches. You will learn how discipleship must be tailored to microchurches and shaped around those they are discipling. And yet, a basic discipleship plan that includes spiritual formation, missional engagement, and accountable life is the place to start, with the goal t...

In this episode of Microchurches, we continue in our conversation with Jeremy Stephens about the foundations of what a microchurch is. Now that we’ve unpacked the ecclesial minimum, you will now learn how these 3 values that make up the church often exist in 2 spaces: Modalic and Sodalic. Worship, Community and Mission happen in both spaces, but in distinctly different ways. Resources Mentioned: U...

In this episode of Microchurches, we continue in this series where we discuss the very minimum that defines what the church of Jesus must be. We call this the Ecclesial Minimum, which is the beginning of how we would define a microchurch - and not a box in which it is limited to. In this particular episode we dive into the value of Mission with Jeremy Stephens. You will hear the ways that mission...

In this episode of Microchurches, we continue in this series in which we discuss the very minimum that defines what the church of Jesus must be. We call this the Ecclesial Minimum, which is the beginning of how we would define a microchurch - and not a box in which it is limited to. In this particular episode we dive into the value of Community with Jeremy Stephens, and the ways that while forms o...

In this episode of Microchurches, we begin a new series in which we discuss the very minimum that defines what the church of Jesus must be. We call this the Ecclesial Minimum, which is the beginning of how we would define a microchurch - and not a box in which it is limited to. In this particular episode we dive into the value of Worship with Jeremy Stephens, and the ways that it is embodied not j...

In this episode of Microchurches, we will hear from the Underground’s Executive Director Lucas Pulley and our Tampa Director Tomy Wilkerson, as they unpack the lessons and common threads that can be found in hearing the stories of some of our microchurches. Resources Mentioned: Underground’s Calling Lab and Microchurches by Brian Sanders

As we continue in this series of hearing from microchurch leaders and the stories they have to tell, we are joined in this episode by Stacy Hester of Solo Moms. Her microchurch seeks to love and reach single mothers, often struggling with more than just navigating motherhood alone. You will hear how her calling was made clear from a lot of her own story with a God who continued to prove faithful a...

As we continue in this series of hearing from microchurch leaders and the stories they have to tell, we are joined in this episode by Derek Scanlon of Beer & Bible, and more recently - Whiskey Club. You will hear how despite any judgements or false assumptions from others in the Christian sphere regarding alcohol and ministry, they’ve been able to create a space of trust, vulnerability, and an...