The KC Underground Podcast

In this episode, Cory and Brian interview Jon DeWitt. Jon is one of the primary leaders within the Share the Hope network. His story begins as a person attending Share the Hope to currently serving as the Coaching Director for the Share the Hope Hub. In this role, he coaches microchurch leaders as they reproduce disciples and microchurches among formerly incarcerated men and those walking out of a...

In this episode, Cory and Brian interview Chad Chambers. Chad has been engaged in disciple-making within the rodeo context for years. The Chambers family plays a significant role in shepherding the microchurch among the youth rodeo circuit. Chad shares his own story of meeting Jesus and how he continues to join Jesus in disciple-making with the people to whom he and his family feel the greatest le...

In this episode, Cory and Brian interview Ryan and Bre Wiebe. Ryan and Bre are founding members of the KC Underground. They are disciple-making and microchurch leaders in the Western Shawnee area. Bre is the ongoing coaching director of the Underground, and Ryan is the aquatics director for a local municipality. We'll walk through the story of how their microchurch emerged and what Jesus has taugh...

In this episode, Cory and Brian interview David and Cheryl Johnson. David and Cheryl are founding members of the Kansas City Underground. They are disciple-making and microchurch leaders in a couple of different contexts from neighborhoods to the state prison. We'll talk through why this paradigm is so important to them, how their microchurches have emerged, and the real stories that have shaped t...

The podcast you listen to will be the fifth in a series during 2022 around the themes of grace and supplication. These episodes will be dropped at various points throughout the year. We hope that you will head over to kcunderground.org/prayer-fasting and grab the prayer guide associated with this podcast. As the KC Underground, we believe that we can only go as far and as fast as we can on our kne...

Cory and Brian talk through the definition of a microchurch for the Kansas City Underground. We say that the KC Underground is a network of missionaries and microchurches, but what do we mean by that. In this episode we'll talk about the biblical foundations for microchurches, what we mean when we use the word, and what we don't mean. Over the next few weeks, we'll hear from local microchurch lead...

Cory McElvain and Brian have a conversation with Desiree Foster and Moses Tasse, two of the summer interns who have jumped into mission with the KC Underground for the summer of '22. We'll share a few stories of what they've done over the past eight weeks, how it's shaped the way they see disciple-making and the church, and how they see Jesus leading them forward. Next steps with the Underground:...

Cory McElvain and Brian interview Creighton Smith-Allaire, a committed missionary to high school students in Kansas City. What makes Creighton perfect for this? He is a high school student. We discuss Creighton's specific roles with the Zero Hour Hub and how he has been equipped by this Hub to be an effective disciple-maker in his school. "I know I'm called to people who are not believers at my sc...

Cory, Cory, and Brian talk through an update with the Zero Hour Hub of the Kansas City Underground. This Hub is specifically engaging the next generation in disciple-making within the area high schools of Kansas City. We discuss what the Zero Hour team has learned over this last year, what's new, and where they're headed. "Gen Z is hungry to lead!" - Cory McElvain Next steps with the Underground:...

Cory and Brian interview Matt Barnes, disciple-maker and microchurch leader in the Kansas City Underground. Sarah and Matt Barnes helped launch the KC Underground in 2019 and currently lead the elder task force, creating training for governing elders within the KC Underground network. Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground

Cory, James, and Brian set up a series of podcasts on "How the Church Engages People." In the CAWKI model it's about people being the customer. In the DMM paradigm, it's about the person owning the mission. This episode really explores our identity as the church and the implications of owning that identity. Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching S...

Cory and Brian spend a third week with Chris Caputo, the director of Relational Wholeness within the Kansas City Underground. This week is all about partnering with the Holy Spirit in Gospel Movements. "Wherever the gospel goes there are signs and wonders. Some are dramatic, some are mundane. We believe in a full gospel demonstration and gospel proclamation. Sometimes the demonstration is the proc...

Cory and Brian interview Chris Caputo, the director of Relational Wholeness within the Kansas City Underground. We continue the conversation around the importance of the prophetic within disciple-making movements, specifically the need for emotional maturity. Chris explains why the relational wholeness team exists and how they serve leaders in the city and around the country. For more information...

Cory and Brian interview Chris Caputo, the director of Relational Wholeness within the Kansas City Underground. In this episode we explore the role of the prophetic within the fivefold. Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground

Cory and Brian talk through the practical ways the Underground utilizes APEST for organizational leadership. Primarily we use a tool called Five Voices to inform how we relationally connect. Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground

Cory and Brian interview Tim Catchim. Tim functions as a multi-vocational entrepreneur. He has started several business, to include a curbside recycling business, a Go Green Initiative, as well as Trimtab: A Coaching and Consulting agency that helps people apply APEST in their life, leadership, teams, and organizations. In this conversation we focus on an overview of the five-fold gifts found in E...

Cory and Morgan interview David Broodryk on multiplication in movements. David has been involved in pioneering God Movements and mentoring leaders worldwide for over 30 years. I am focused on coaching and mentoring leaders in strategies for launching and leading God Movements that multiply. "Find the leaders and invest in them, because they're already investing in others. Movements today are a lea...

The podcast you listen to will be the fourth in a series during 2022 around the themes of grace and supplication. These episodes will be dropped at various points throughout the year. We hope that you will head over to kcunderground.org/prayer-fasting and grab the prayer guide associated with this podcast. As the KC Underground, we believe that we can only go as far and as fast as we can on our kn...

Cory and Brian work through 6 ways we see multiplication in movement. "Multiplication is never clean and simple, it comes in multiple ways, and we don't need to hold the weight of making it happen." Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground

Cory and Brian have a conversation around multiplication thinking. If want to see movement, we have to have a mindset for multiplication. "Movement is predicated on multiplication." Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground

Cory and Brian interview him in this second episode on making the supernatural, natural. In part two we explore more practical tools on how to train ourselves and others in prayer practices that help us discover our missional assignments and then act on them. Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground

The podcast you listen to will be the third in a series during 2022 around the themes of grace and supplication. These episodes will be dropped at various points throughout the year. We hope that you will head over to kcunderground.org/prayer-fasting and grab the prayer guide associated with this podcast. As the KC Underground, we believe that we can only go as far and as fast as we can on our kne...

Cory and Brian interview him, a missionary trainer with NOVO. he walks us through the importance of engaging the supernatural when we think about movements. In part one of this interview, he walks through his own story and the paradigm we need to embrace. Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground

Cory and Brian interview Rick and Alice Bush who are missionary leaders with the Kansas City Underground. While serving with the Share the Hope community, Jesus invited them into a new context with the homeless community in Kansas City. Rick and Alice don't just "do ministry for" the people to whom they've been sent. They do ministry with the people in their context. They followed the Missionary P...

In this episode, Cory and Brian celebrate 100 episodes of the podcast. They take a look back at what the Underground has learned in the past two years. The five primary points of learning are: 1) Pray different, 2) Pivot, 3) Seek Unity, 4) Disciplemaking is the point, 5) train for endurance, not speed. Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter   Connect with us for Coaching...