The Millennial Pastor

Amy Pelfrey was the daughter of a Pastor. She did her best to avoid the calling, but ultimately God had the final say. Now she is the Youth and Children's pastor for the church she serves in. She is also a wife and mother and speaks at length about all that goes into juggle her work and family responsibilities.

Amy Pelfrey was the daughter of a Pastor. She did her best to avoid the calling, but ultimately God had the final say. Now she is the Youth and Children's pastor for the church she serves in. She is also a wife and mother and speaks at length about all that goes into juggle her work and family responsibilities. 

Chelsea is the Mesoamerica Central Field Coordinator for Global Missions! She is a former Florida youth pastor, current missionary in the Dominican Republic and soon to be Urban Church planter in Update New York. She co-hosts a podcast called the Worthless Servant! She grew up in Arkansas but has since traveled the world! 

Aimee is our new host and for the next few months she is interviewing female pastors from the southeastern United States! Her first guest is Lydia who serves as a Children’s Pastor in a church in Florida.

Aimee is a wife, mother, pastor and now in her spare time she is our newest podcast host! She lives in Florida and during her time as this shows host she will be interviewing other female pastors in the area. She no stranger to the show either, you can catch her in season one by clicking here .

On our season finale we had the privilege of talking with Dr. Carla Sunberg. She is one of our denominations GS's (we have six total) and has been everything form a missionary to a seminary president. Listen as we ask her about mentoring Millennials, about how parish ministry might look in the future and how she thinks we are best served in living out our callings today. 

Olivia Metcalf is a DS. Thats short for District Superintendent. It’s a position that oversees a number of churches and their pastors on a specific region similar to a bishop in other faith traditions. Currently, she is the only female DS in the USA. There have only been four female DS’s before her (in USA/CA) and she just might be the youngest!! Listen to her story as she shares her ministry jour...

 Tiffany has one of the less conventional roads to ministry we have ever heard of. Her story is full or hardship, perseverance, and passion to follow where she feels God has called for her to go. Hear her journey from stripping to pastoring and discover how she ministered to those the Church often misses.  Find out more about Tiffany: JesusLovesStrippers.org   Music Credit: And...

Amy and MG were both raised in fairly stereotypical Evangelical homes. They went to Christians colleges because they both senses a call to pursue ministry. Years after graduating, their paths crossed and they would eventually get married. There was just one potential hurdle their marriage would face: As Amy was pursuing the ministry, MG was walking away from Christianity altogether. Listen to part...

Amy and MG were both raised in fairly stereotypical Evangelical homes. They went to Christians colleges because they both senses a call to pursue ministry. Years after graduating, their paths crossed and they would eventually get married. There was just one potential hurdle their marriage would face: As Amy was pursuing the ministry, MG was walking away from Christianity altogether. Listen to part...

Queering Wesley, Queering the Church is a book written by Keegan Osisnki. Quite a title right!?! If you haven't seen the cover, click the link below to catch a glimpse. However, before you literally judge a book (or it's author) by it's cover, take a second to hear a little about Keegan. She shares a little about her life, her convictions and why she took on a project like this that is giving the...

Every now and then we catch wind that someone is doing church a little different. Ryan Fasani is one of those pastors who is innovating the pastoral role in real-time and may just be paving the way for what it looking like to participate in the life of the church tomorrow. In part one we talk about how he spends his time focused on three vocational areas: church planting, farming, and writing. Rya...

This is a cross-post from our friends at "The Table: A Church Plant Journey" who interviewed the host of this podcast! Josiah share's what has happened in his ministry through the pandemic, and specifically addresses some of why he left the Lead Pastoral roll. He also shared his hopes and dreams for what the Church would and can look like in the future! Here is the link to their podcast: https://p...

Every now and then we catch wind that someone is doing church a little different. Ryan Fasani is one of those pastors who is innovating the pastoral role in real-time and may just be paving the way for what it looking like to participate in the life of the church tomorrow. In part one we talk about how he spends his time focused on three vocational areas: church planting, farming, and writing. Rya...

Goodness... This episode is special. It's special because we had the privilege to hear from our friend Jared. If you don't know him, you will quickly hear how passionate and energetic he is. In fact, due to technical issues, we had to record this episode over phones which allowed Jared to literally run around the farm he lives on while enthusiastically telling us the story of how he ended up livin...

Letiah & Brent re-join the podcast to share a little of what they have gone through over this past year. We also talk about how 2020 has shaped the community gatherings they both currently lead. Letiah has leveraged zoom to create a gathering that would not have otherwise been possible. Bent has taken cues from ancient practices to form a gathering that might seem unusual for a millennial to b...

Josiah and Byron give a brief update on whats going on in their lives as well as with the podcasts. They also have some books they would really love for you to read (affiliate links below). Oh, and they would super appreciate it if you gave them some feedback on the show in general.  The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy - What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous...

Ben Cremer is a pastor, a professor and a podcast host (A Plain Account which is part of The Millennial Pastors Podcasting Network)! On this podcast he shares everything from the rollercoaster that is being a pastor in a pandemic, his own struggle with mental health, as well as his thoughts on the pitfalls of American Evangelicalism as a whole. He also shares his hopes and dreams for what the Chur...

Andrew lived a fairly regular life. He was brought up going to church, and even pursued ministry as a young adult. Somewhere along the line he got fed up and decided to disengage and stopped going to “church.” He never stopped keeping tabs on what was happening in church circles though, because Andrew is actually the younger brother this shows host, Josiah. Both brothers walked nearly the same pat...

Will and Moose are on the show to talk about the different ways they have dealt with the Covid restrictions as it pertains to their worship gatherings. Spoiler alert, they took different approaches! It seems maybe there is not a one size fits all solution to these complex issues! Still, they both agree that our churches have had problems left unaddressed long before Covid made them glaringly obvio...

Byron interviews Ryan and Trevor, two returning millennial pastor guests who share what they are up to lately. Spoiler alert, they are crazy enough to try planting a church in AZ mid-pandemic!!

Alicia and Hunter are back and this time we are talking about what it was like to navigate 2020 as a young Millennial Pastor! Here is there previous episodes in case you need a refresher on them: Alicia - Click Here Hunter - Click Here  Don't forget to subscribe!!!

We're sorry... We have not been around for a while. Classic ghosting millennial move... but we're back! In this episode we explain ourselves and share a little of what happened this past year in our own lives as well as what will be happening with the future of the podcast! Did you notice our neat new intro and outro music? Josiah's brother is a gifted musician Andrew recorded it for us! Check out...

On this episode we have a panel of all female millennial pastors share their journey towards ordination!