The Leadership Community Podcast

Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.   In this episode, you are listening to our conversation with Tim Alford, Limitless National Director at Elim Pentecostal Church, UK. He has a passion to equip leaders and communicate the gospel.   We talked with him about how Churches can lead the next generation better: What are we getting wrong? Why is identity formation so important? The biggest cha...

Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.   In this episode, you are listening to our conversation with Jon-Michael Shernman on Using AI as a Tool in Church Ministry. Jon-Michael Sherman has served in pastoral ministry, including as an Executive Pastor. Today, he supports and equips Pastors through PastorCenter.com, an all-in-one platform built "by pastors, for pastors," designed to streamline...

Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.   In this episode, you are listening to our conversation with Pastor Ant Lee on becoming a church-planting church.   Ant Lee is the Lead Pastor of Vibe Church, a growing family of churches in High Wycombe, Bournemouth, Florence (Italy), and the Republic of Georgia. He is committed to developing a church-planting culture and to planting 10 churches in 10...

Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.   In this episode, you are listening to our conversation with Mark Ryan where we talk about church growth and breaking numerical barriers.   Mark is an experienced church leader and Bible teacher with a passion to make Scripture accessible and life-giving for everyone. He has pioneered church plants and led growing churches in Bicester, Letchworth, Birm...

Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.   In this episode, you are listening to our conversation with Stewart Elman about growing young leaders. Stewart serves as the National Youth Director for Assemblies of God, UK, overseeing Youth Alive. The vision of Youth Alive is to see 'dynamic youth ministries all across Great Britain in every AoG church'. Stewart also oversees the youth leadership p...

Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.   In this episode, you are listening to our conversation with Gareth Morgan. Gareth is a leadership and elite performance coach, a Church leader, and author of 'The Winning Conversation' and 'The Winning Motivation. He helps to build individuals, teams and organisations to maximise their impact. In our conversation, we talked with him about 'rethinking...

Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.   In this episode, you are listening to our conversation with Dave Belfield, as he returns as a guest on the Podcast. He was the Pastor of Today's Community Church in Wigan, UK, for 25 years before passing the leadership to his Son-in-Law, Ben, and this was the focus of our previous episode.   Today, we are talking about leadership vs ministry ~ the one...

Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.   In this episode, you are listening to our conversation with Tim Farron MP. Tim is the former leader of the Liberal Democrats and has been MP for West Moreland and Lonsdale for more than 20 years.   This is a shorter conversation than usual, but we managed to cover a lot of ground, chatting with Tim about faith & politics, especially how his faith...

Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.   In this episode, you are listening to our conversation with Archie Coates. Archie is the Vicar of Holy Trinity Brompton. Before entering ministry, he worked in sales and later served as HTB's Associate Vicar for several years.   In 2009, he and a pioneering team moved to Brighton to revitalise St Peter's Church, transforming it from a struggling churc...

Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.   In this episode, you are listening to our conversation with Hannah Williamson. For nearly two decades, Hannah has served in the local church in various roles, including as a youth pastor and then as executive pastor.   Hannah has a particular heart for seeing young leaders developed and equipped to live out their influence in both the world around the...

Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.   In this episode, you are listening to our conversation with Pastor Jo Read. She is the Senior Pastor of Generations Church in Louth, Lincolnshire, a vibrant community known for its heart for worship and intergenerational ministry.   Beyond her local leadership, Jo plays a pivotal role in the national landscape as a Zone Leader for the Assemblies of Go...

Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.   In this episode, you are listening to our conversation with Joel Bagnall, who is back on the Podcast. Joel is an Australian living in Denmark with his wife and family. He has a heart to serve local churches in next-generation ministry and is currently the Youth Pastor at KBH Frikirke in Copenhagen, and he also leads Acts Generations, Denmark. At the e...

Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.   In today's episode, we talk to James Shepherd, Lead Pastor of City Church in Newcastle, UK. The transition story of City Church was part of a previous Podcast episode with Ian Galloway, and we continue this with James, as he shares part of his experience of that transition journey. We talked about: His journey into the senior leadership role Vision fo...

Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.   In today's episode, we talk to Chris Denham, Pastor of C3 Life in Leeds, UK. We get Chris talking about his 30 years of leadership, from starting as a University Ministry Leader to the role he now has as the Senior Pastor of C3 Life. These conversations are always full of lived-out wisdom, helpful for any leader in whatever context we might find ourse...

Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.   In today's episode, we talk to Phil Knox, Evangelism and Missiology Senior Specialist at The Evangelical Alliance. We talk with Phil about each of the Missional Trends for 2026, which are drawn from the latest research, listening to EA members and observing the missional landscape. You can read the report here https://www.eauk.org/what-we-do/initiativ...

Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.   In today's episode, we talk to Stu Otten about Leading Through Trauma.   Stu shares his story of how he was brought up in a Christian home, bullied at school, and through circumstances that he explains, got into criminality, violent and aggressive criminal activity   Yet through it all, he held onto some kind of belief in God, and it was anger at a si...

Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.   In today's episode, we talk to Pastor Jamie Daniels about 'Bi-Vocational Ministry'. Jamie is the Pastor of County Durham CLC and also the Director of the Growing Leaders programme at Cranmer Hall, Durham University. Having two jobs doesn't make Jamie unique from a ministry perspective, but it was helpful to discuss what it is like to lead in this way....

Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.   In today's episode, we talk to Pastor Dave Brackenridge about what it looks like to 'Be a Successful Leader'. Dave is the Pastor of Home Church, Scotland, and also the Director of British Youth for Christ. During our conversation, we focus on: Dave's story and what being a leader has cost him personally The importance of culture over vision The challe...

Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.   In today's episode, we welcome back Ps Paul Benger for a conversation as part of our 'How To Series'. Jonny talks to Paul about How To Activate The Gifts of the Spirit in the Local Church. We believe this is a much-needed conversation, as God has given each of us gifts for use within the church and in everyday life. Enjoy listening to Paul as he talks...

Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.   In today's episode, our co-hosts Jonny & Julian continue the How To Series with a conversation on How To Have An Effective Sunday Service. They unpack 4 principles: Excellence Through Consistency Everything Communicates Design Sunday Services for God, Christians and Guests (In That Order) Small Changes, Big Impact   Listen as they explain what the...

Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.   In today's episode, we are in conversation with Rachel Mawston and continue our How to Series as we talk about being a Spirit-led leader.   Rachel is a speaker, author, leader and coach. She is passionate about helping women find their voice. Find out more by following her on Instagram @rachelmawston   We talked about what a Holy Spirit-led leader loo...

Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.   In today's episode, we are in conversation with Gavin Calver, CEO of The Evangelical Alliance, who has been in this role for 6 years.   The Evangelical Alliance is made up of hundreds of organisations, thousands of churches and tens of thousands of individuals, joined together for the sake of the gospel. You can find out more about them at eauk.org  ...

Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.   In today's episode, we are in conversation with Jason Mayhall, Pastor of Bethany Church, a Church of about 350 people, in the North East of England.   Jason is an American leading a British Church, which led to a great conversation about what that is like. As well as hearing how Jason ended upo in the UK, we talked about: The biggest cultural differen...

Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.   In today's episode, we are in conversation with Joe Lowther, CEO of Kick, a Christian organisation committed to transforming young people’s lives, with God’s love, through sport and support.    We talked with Joe about what it means to lead an organisation well. It's a great conversation as we hear more about Joe's own journey as a leader and then abo...

Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.   In today's episode, our co-hosts Jonny & Julian continue the leadership goals series by talking about leading yourself well. Jonny asks Julian some questions about the thought he shares, that leading yourself well makes you a leader worth following.    Listen as Jonny & Julian discuss the following aspects of leading yourself well: Why leading...