The KC Underground Podcast

Obedience-based Disciple-making – Drew Jones (Episode #26) Cory and Brian interview Drew Jones for week 2. Drew has years of church planting experience in the states and internationally. You’ll hear how obedience is a primary expectation for disciple-making in movements and how it has shaped him as a follower of Jesus. It’s only God who can make a movement [4:20] Let’s make sure what we’re doing i...

Obedience-based Disciple-making – Drew Jones (Episode #25) Cory and Brian interview Drew Jones. Drew has years of church planting experience in the states and internationally. You’ll hear how obedience is a primary expectation for disciple-making in movements and how it has shaped him as a follower of Jesus. Introductions [0:45] Drew’s Story [2:20] How my metrics changed [7:10] The model is the me...

Obedience-based Disciple-making – Rita Salter (Episode #24) Cory and Brian interview Rita Salter. Rita has spent many years working with unreached and unengaged people groups in West African countries. Part of that experience is using a gospel planting method of “Storying.” This is where stories of Scripture from Creation to Christ are shared, repeated and the invitation to obedience, along with a...

Cory and Brian interview local KC leader and spiritual father/grandfather, Roy Moran. Roy is a catalyst and coach for disciple-making movements and a dear friend of the Underground.   Cory’s Introduction of Roy Moran [1:30] Roy fills in the details from his angle [3:45] Where does the pushback come from [8:30] Obedience is the core piece in learning to trust God [13:30] We think of obedience as du...

Obedience-based Disciplemaking (Episode #22) Cory and Brian introduce the idea of “Obedience-based Disciple-making” as we make a new paradigm shift in our series on disciple-making movements. John 14 [1:15] Is obeience a bad word? [2:45] Many of us agree with Jesus, but we don’t surrender to him [8:50] Instill spiritual muscle memory early [10:09] What are we inviting people into [13:40] Obedience...

Context Map and BLESS 5 (Episode #21) Cory and Brian are back a training on “Planting the Gospel.” This podcast revolves around two tools we use in the Underground that we’ve integrated into one tool: Context Map and BLESS 5. How Do I Start? [1:15] Know Your Context/Pray With Authority and Mission [2:55] Context Map Training [4:00] BLESS 5 Prayer [10:00] Just the Training [14:00] Resources Mention...

Myron Pierce #2 (Episode #20) Cory and Brian are back with Myron Pierce for a third interview. Why Businesses [3:00] Colorado Springs Story [4:30] We’re a Dream Factory [21:00] Myron Speaks into Us [26:00] Resources Mentioned in Podcast myronpierce.com Next step with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground

Myron Pierce #2 (Episode #19) Cory and Brian are back with Myron Pierce for a second interview. Shenanigans [1:00] Multiplication Ladder [6:00] Wrung 1: Disciple [12:45] Multiplication is happening [23:00] Our presence in the inner city is an apologetic [31:00] Community Engagement [36:37] everyinnercity.com [43:01] Resources Mentioned in Podcast myronpierce.com Next step with the Underground: Sub...

Myron Pierce (Episode #18) Rob and Brian interview Myron Pierce. Myron describes himself as a follower of Jesus, husband, father, pastor, church planter, author and entrepreneur. At the age of 18 he was facing a life sentence in prison for his life of gang banging, drugs and crime. He surrendered to Jesus and heard the Spirit say, “I’m going to get you out of prison to plant churches.” Through a s...

D’Markus Thomas-Brown (Episode #17) Cory and Brian interview D’Markus Thomas-Brown. D’Markus is leading a church in Columbia, MO that is driven by disciple making movement principles. He originally moved to Columbia with the idea of planting a church but quickly realized that to make an impact in the lostness of that city, attractional models of church planting were not going to work. D’Markus, li...

Regina Foard (Episode #16)   Cory and Brian interview Regina Foard. Regina is local to KC, and a missionary connected to the Underground. She served for a long season as a mission pastor in the local church. She has a heart for the nations in KC and a clear favor among the international community. You’re going to be moved by her knowledge of the diversity of the nations in our city. We often talk...

 Hugh Halter (Episode #15)   Cory and Brian interview Hugh Halter. Hugh & Cheryl Halter began their ministry starting things from scratch in Portland, Oregon. Hugh and Cheryl have done it all from church planting to house painting to starting hockey teams for children with disabilities. Hugh has been one of the primary influencers for the Underground in learning about incarnational living and gosp...

The KC Underground Podcast Plant the Gospel  In this episode we're moving to the next big shift in the conversation of "Mindset to Movement," which is the move from Church Planting to Gospel Planting. We don't plant churches, we plant the gospel, make disciples and the church emerges out of new disciple-making. This is an introduction episode to the next several weeks where we will interview frien...

This episode is a walkthrough of the Prayer of Examen. 

Episode 12 is all about the Prayer of Examen as we continue in our series on Extraordinary Prayer and Fasting. We've already had one training episode on Activating Prayer that was more about a breathing out type of prayer. The Prayer of Examen is a breathing in type of prayer. It's less about active mission and more about Jesus and His gospel, through the Spirit and the everyday stuff of life spea...

Lucy Boston (Episode #11)   Cory and Brian interview Lucy Boston. This week we’re focused on fasting. Lucy is based in Kansas City, Missouri, and is and Executive Associate and Prayer Strategist with Global Catalytic Ministries, a ministry network of Underground Churches in the Middle East bringing Muslims to Christ through Disciple Making Movements. Lucy serves this growing network through Commun...

The KC Underground Podcast  Lucy Boston (Episode #10)   Cory and Brian interview Lucy Boston. Lucy is based in Kansas City, Missouri, and is and Executive Associate and Prayer Strategist with Global Catalytic Ministries, a ministry network of Underground Churches in the Middle East bringing Muslims to Christ through Disciple Making Movements. Lucy serves this growing network through Communications...

Lee Price (Episode #9) Cory and Brian have a second interview with Lee Price. This week we asked Lee to walk us through each of the steps in Activating Prayer. Rather than this just being an interview about Lee’s work, this is more of an equipping podcast with some “on-the-field experiences” mixed in. The stories will demonstrate what this type of prayer looks like in action. Some of these stories...

Lee Price (Episode #8) Cory and Brian interview Lee Price who is a missionary with NOVO’s Pioneering Initiatives Team. He has been a missionary for over 15 years with a focus on simple church, reproducible discipleship, and activating prayer. He lives in Colorado and has a real passion to ignite a disciple making movement and help equip emerging leaders with missional practices and strategies. He...

In this episode of the Underground Podcast, Brian and Cory interview Sam Metcalf, the president of Novo. Sam and Patty Metcalf were one of four families that founded Novo in 1980, and he has served as president since 1985. He holds an undergraduate degree with honors from the University of Virginia, a master’s degree from the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Seminary, and a doctorate from...

Extraordinary Prayer and Fasting (Episode #6) Cory and Brian talk about how movement catalysts need to make certain paradigm shifts and the first extraordinary prayer and fasting. It’s the beginning of every movement. It’s the beginning of our “missionary pathway” in KC Underground. How do we begin to live into this deeply? Cory’s Article [1:30] We’re all invited to be disciple-making leaders [2:0...

Cory and Brian interview Becca Patton. Becca is a campus minister at the University of Evansville in Indiana. In this role she engages and disciples students to become confident carriers of the Gospel through outreaches, discipleship training, leadership development and ownership of Christ’s Kingdom vision. Becca’s calling is to make disciples of Jesus that impact their campus, community and the n...

Find the One to Reach the Many Cory and Brian interview Phil Alessi about the idea of having a mindset for movement. Phil unexpectedly launched a movement within a prison in Indiana through his meetings with just one inmate, Donnie, and now can chronicle about 3,200 new disciples who have come to Christ through this movement in three years. The story of what’s happened in Indiana has inspired many...

Cory and Brian interview Chris Galanos and learn about a network aiming at movement in Lubbock, TX.

An interview with Joe Reed, the founder of Exponent Group. Joe has had experience in “macro” and “micro” church planting. After several years exploring missional communities in the context of Pretoria, South Africa, Joe and his family moved back to the states to begin a new work in Boston. Joe also leads Accelerate, a network that serves as a platform for those who are sharing resources and learni...