The Church Around the World

Clint Pressley, President of the Southern Baptist Convention and Senior Pastor of Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Charlotte, NC, joins Dan Ehrman on The Church Around the World to share how he is seeing God at work in the local church and from a broader perspective through the SBC. He shares practical leadership insights from coming into leadership in the church where he was raised, to navigating...

Joining The Church Around the World from rural south-central Florida, Pastor Mark McCarter of First Baptist Church of Okeechobee talks with host Dan Ehrman about how God is drawing a remarkable portion of their county to church. Mark shares glimpses of rural Florida life—farming, alligators, and all—and offers practical insights for church leaders into how the church is engaging its community and...

Isaac Challo  Isaac Challo is a husband, father, pastor, Bible and theology teacher, preacher, and pre-marriage and marriage counselor based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He joins Dan Ehrman on The Church Around the World to share how he sees God at work in his ministry. Challo offers practical insights on using marriage counseling as a tool for evangelism and discipleship while introducing a Wester...

Salvador “Chava” Padilla is a leader at Iglesia Biblica de Irapuato, a Protestant church near Guanajuato, Mexico. On The Church Around the World with Dan Ehrman, Chava shares how God is moving in their congregation as second- and third-generation Christian families worship together for the first time. He offers practical insights on topics ranging from culture and politics and the struggles of wor...

Pastor Eric Vogel, the Next Gen Pastor at Faithbrook Church in Dayton, Minnesota, joins Dan Ehrman on The Church Around the World to share how God is working in young people. He discusses his journey from a teaching career to ministry, his passion for sharing the hope of the Gospel with students, and how to engage a generation with little cultural awareness of the Bible. Gain practical insights on...

 Rev. Dr. Pastor Clay Smith joins Dan Ehrman on The Church Around the World to share practical insights on how God sustained them during a season of uncertainty after taking over for a founding pastor at the end of 2019, the tensions between academic study and practical ministry, finding joy in the call of ministry, loving his wife and family as well as the church, the artistry and imperfection of...

Pastor Jeeva Pakerla was born into a family with a multi-generational commitment to serving the church in India. He is the President of The Bible Mission in Narsapur, the founder of the Maranatha Movement, and leads Jereu Music Ministry. In conversation on The Church Around the World, he shares practical insights for following God's leading and focusing on evangelism and discipleship ministries. A...

Dr. Greg Pritchard joins Dan Ehrman on The Church Around the World to share insights from his decades of experience with the European Leadership Forum, which partners to renew and resource the biblical church and evangelize Europe. Practical insights include discerning God’s call to leave corporate America, developing young ministry leaders, unpacking essential apologetics, and lessons the America...

Rev. Dr. Jon Kelly joins Dan Ehrman on The Church Around the World to discuss practical insights on leading a multiethnic church, navigating cultural differences, and casting a vision for global missions within an urban Chicago context.  Jon’s story is one of profound transformation. Growing up, he cycled in and out of juvenile detention and, at 19, received a prison sentence for his involvement i...

Bruce Strom, CEO and Founder of Administer Justice shares their origin story and the vision churches to open 1,000 Gospel Justice Centers. There is a significant civil justice gap in America. Over 40 million low-income individuals are unable to access basic legal advice.  Administer Justice partners with churches to address this need by establishing Gospel Justice Centers, which provide legal assi...

Juan Riesco, Chicago City Director at Love Life USA, shares how the church can care for women with unplanned pregnancies. Juan Riesco brings passion, love, and a unique perspective to every endeavor. As the City Director at Love Life USA, he is mobilizing hundreds of churches and thousands of Protestants to engage in pro-life efforts, an area traditionally led by the Roman Catholic Church in place...

Pastor Adam Wilson shares insights on engaging rural communities with the Gospel. Pastor Adam Wilson serves at Indian Creek Christian Church in Cynthiana, Kentucky, and joins Dan Ehrman on "The Church Around the World" to share practical insights for Christians looking to engage rural communities with the Gospel. They discuss the unique challenges of pastoring in a small town, the dynamics of rura...

 Rev. Dr. Amy Peeler joins Dan Ehrman on The Church Around the World to share practical insights for Christians on how to engage in respectful disagreements regarding gender roles in ministry without breaking fellowship. They discuss navigating faith as both a Baptist and an Anglican, as well as how Dr. Peeler perceives God's work in both the Academy and the local church. Dr. Peeler is the Kenneth...

Dr. Jonathan Kline, senior editor at Hendrickson Publishers, joins Dan Ehrman on the Church Around the World podcast to share about his leadership in developing a new category of Bible resources through a series called The Preacher’s Companion. In this series, Jonathan examines the Greek or Hebrew of certain biblical passages with a variety of lexical and grammatical tools. Each passage is accompa...

Ian Simkins, lead pastor of teaching at The Bridge Church in the Nashville area joins Dan Ehrman on the Church Around the World podcast today. He shares insights about the unique leadership structure at The Bridge (where he shares duties with lead pastor of strategy, Craig McKown) and his trajectory from heading up a fledgling community church on the brink of closing to holding lead teaching roles...

Chris Shaw has been a shepherd of pastors in Argentina and across Latin America for decades. He has served at the Instituto Biblico de Buenos Aires, Desarrollo Cristiano Internacional, and Apuntes Pastorales magazine. He now joins Dan Ehrman on the Church Around the World podcast to share insights about leadership dynamics in the Latin American church and how he sees God at work in the Church as a...

Rev. Dr. Crawford Loritts is joining Dan Ehrman on The Church Around the World podcast today. He will share practical insights into how he perceives God at work in multiethnic ministry, recount his journey of being guided towards this calling, and discuss his vision for future generations of the church. Dr. Loritts is the founder of Beyond Our Generation, has served as a church planter, spent 27 y...

The Church Around the World Bill and Jen, Co-Founders of Africans Reaching Africa, serve a team of indigenous church missionaries across unreached parts of Africa, joining Dan Ehrman on The Church Around the World podcast to share how they are seeing God move in miraculous ways, even redirecting the heart of a king where Christian faith could be a death sentence. Bill and Jen share how God called...

Dr. Jaime Miron (a.k.a Jim Williams) has served with the Luis Palau Association since 1968 and oversaw the translation of the Bible into contemporary Spanish with the Nueva Traducción Viviente. Today, he joins Dan Ehrman on the Church Around the World podcast to share insights from over 55 years of leadership in global evangelization. He also talks about the challenges of developing a new Spanish...

Mark Vroegop, President of The Gospel Coalition, was serving as lead pastor of College Park Church in Indianapolis and board member of The Gospel Coalition when he joined Dan Ehrman on the Church Around the World podcast to share insights for leading a growing diverse church and the spiritual challenges that led to writing books on lament and waiting.  Church Connect Church Connect - Connect your...

Dave Conrads, pastor of Genesis Church in Coralville, Iowa, joins Dan Ehrman on the Church Around the World podcast to share insights for working as a bi-vocational church planter after coming to faith as an adult and attending seminary mid-career. Church Connect: Connect your church to resources from trusted publishers working to unify all people in our faith and knowledge of Jesus Christ. Episod...

Tristen Meza, kids’ director at The Bridge Church in the Nashville suburbs joins Dan Ehrman on the Church Around the World podcast to share her thoughts on cultural shifts in kids in the church, emerging trends in kids’ ministry, challenges of engaging kids in Bible reading, and her journey to serving in the church today. Afterwards, Dan is joined in studio by Linda Howard, associate publisher of...

Chris Butler, pastor of the Chicago Embassy Church Network, leader in the AND Campaign, author, podcaster, and political advocate, joins Dan Ehrman on the Church Around the World podcast to share insights for church leaders about engaging politically, the distinctions between political advocacy and pastoral calling, and his hope for America and the church. Church Connect - Connect your church to r...

The Church Around the World E. M. (Evan) Welcher, author and senior pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Vermillion, South Dakota, joins Dan Ehrman, an old classmate from Emmaus Bible College, on the Church Around the World podcast to share his resilient hope while carrying the grief of the loss of his first wife, Danielle, to cancer; walking with his now-wife, Rachel, through multiple miscarriages,...