The Ralph Moore Podcast

David Owens was a missionary kid growing up with Francis Shaeffer and L’abri as neighbors and family friends. Rebelling against God, he made his way to Australia for life in the film industry. That turned into a stint as a flight attendant. He regained faith but with the “Children of God.” However, his life on airplanes turned into a church plant. As the “Jesus People Movement” hit Australia, evan...

My friend, Troy Evans, is an amazing man bringing imaginative change to a poverty-ridden community. His example bristles with lessons for you and me. Troy leads The Edge, a church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It’s a city of extremes—wealth and poverty. Troy grew up there. Got into gangs. Three of his brothers were shot. Friends killed. After experiencing jail at an early age, he moved around until e...

My friend, Troy Evans, is an amazing man bringing imaginative change to a poverty-ridden community. His example bristles with lessons for you and me. Troy leads The Edge, a church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It’s a city of extremes—wealth and poverty. Troy grew up there. Got into gangs. Three of his brothers were shot. Friends killed. After experiencing jail at an early age, he moved around until e...

My friend, Troy Evans, is an amazing man bringing imaginative change to a poverty-ridden community. His example bristles with lessons for you and me. Troy leads The Edge, a church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It’s a city of extremes—wealth and poverty. Troy grew up there. Got into gangs. Three of his brothers were shot. Friends killed. After experiencing jail at an early age, he moved around until e...

Ed Kang is the son of Korean immigrants. Growing up poor in Los Angeles he was headed for a life of crime and delinquency. That is until he met a postal employee with a vision for discipling adolescents. One man with a guitar, a Bible and a heart for kids changed a bunch of lives in what we might call a microchurch.   As a law student at the University of California at Berkeley Ed worked as a...

Ed Kang is the son of Korean immigrants. Growing up poor in Los Angeles he was headed for a life of crime and delinquency. That is until he met a postal employee with a vision for discipling adolescents. One man with a guitar, a Bible and a heart for kids changed a bunch of lives in what we might call a microchurch.   As a law student at the University of California at Berkeley Ed worked as a...

Ed Kang is the son of Korean immigrants. Growing up poor in Los Angeles he was headed for a life of crime and delinquency. That is until he met a postal employee with a vision for discipling adolescents. One man with a guitar, a Bible and a heart for kids changed a bunch of lives in what we might call a microchurch. As a law student at the University of California at Berkeley Ed worked as a bivoca...

Luke is young, confident and outspoken, “I believe frankly, Ralph, that the future of the church belongs to those who are willing to break up power handing it away and multiplying disciples at a much more efficient rate.” He continues, “Come on dude…the more we can get this message out to younger leaders like me, who definitely had a calling has a calling, but was disillusioned by the one church i...

Luke Edgerton leads Mercy Road Northwest, a large congregation in Indianapolis.   The church is part of a network of churches with the original Mercy Road Church as its epicenter. But this is definitely a network, not a “church with many campuses.” I asked Luke about money as it relates to their disciplemaking and church multiplication efforts. He responded, “I do want to make clear that five...

Carl Moore grew up in a church plant. We launched Hope Chapel Hermosa Beach when he was six months old. At age 12 he became the “head usher” when we launched Hope Chapel Kaneohe Bay. He was 15 when he led his first microchurch. He and a friend, “Sumo” Sato planted Hope Chapel Ontario, CA as college students (the building had bullet holes in the walls). Upon graduation he helped a friend and profes...

Carl Moore grew up in a church plant. We launched Hope Chapel Hermosa Beach when he was six months old. At age 12 he became the “head usher” when we launched Hope Chapel Kaneohe Bay. He was 15 when he led his first microchurch. He and a friend, “Sumo” Sato planted Hope Chapel Ontario, CA as college students (the building had bullet holes in the walls). Upon graduation he helped a friend and profes...

Carl Moore grew up in a church plant. We launched Hope Chapel Hermosa Beach when he was six months old. At age 12 he became the “head usher” when we launched Hope Chapel Kaneohe Bay. He was 15 when he led his first microchurch. He and a friend, “Sumo” Sato planted Hope Chapel Ontario, CA as college students (the building had bullet holes in the walls). Upon graduation he helped a friend and profes...

You'll enjoy part 2 of my interview with my friend, Curtis Honeycutt. Curtis is one of the most interesting individuals that I've ever met. He's super outgoing and an idea-a-minute yet he's an introvert (I relate to the introverversion). His upbringing was both good and horrible. His best friend stuggled with cancer and someone shot his brother. He sought riches then found Jesus. He attended Hills...

Curtiss Hunnicut is an intriguing person. The guy has done a little bit of everything--which usually draws suspician. But not with this guy. After he stopped following Mammon to follow Jesus everything he's done has been with a singular purpose--to expand the Kingdom of God. He's sold insurance. He's run several successful businesses. He's been a marketing director. He planted a church that plants...

This is the audio from the last session of "Doing Church In a Post-Christian Environment." I posted it here to give you a sample of what we're offering. You would get the video and PowerPoints along with the audio. Sessions like these come out twice each month for those participating in the Equippers Lab. Participants get the twice monthly materials plus access to all course materials, past and pr...

This is my second interview with Jim Britts and I hope for more as his story unfolds.   Jim is living on the front lines of a disciplemaking movement in Oceanside, California. The church currently operates a dual operating system as they transition to the new approach.   The congregation serves long-time members on Sunday mornings and then serves microchurch leaders with a less formal ye...

Jim Britts: Second Interview Shows Progress As a Disciplemaking Movement   This is my second interview with Jim Britts and I hope for more as his story unfolds.   Jim is living on the front lines of a disciplemaking movement in Oceanside, California. The church currently operates a dual operating system as they transition to the new approach.   The congregation serves long-time memb...

God is at work in New York City.   The last few years have brought dozens, if not hundreds, of church planters to this incredibly diverse, massively secular and hugely influential city.   After a stint in South Africa, Benjamin Lee returned to New York bent on planting a different kind of church. He's using a podcast mingled with a growing network of friends to launch a string of microch...

God is at work in New York City. The last few years have brought dozens, if not hundreds, of church planters to this incredibly diverse, massively secular and hugely influential city. After a stint in South Africa, Benjamin Lee returned to New York bent on planting a different kind of church. He's using a podcast mingled with a growing network of friends to launch a string of microchurches. He is...

This is as fresh and raw as it gets. Taylor Smith stumbled into a church plant a few years ago. In his first meeting with the leaders, they challenged him to plant a church. Several years later he's a veteran student ministries pastor planting a microchurch in a widely diverse community. The Smiths moved to this location because the people come from so many countries and cultures. So far, they've...

The Simple Church Collective began in 2019 as a prevailing model church startup led by Luis and Melissa Sánchez. As COVID-19 changed the world the church changed with it. Luis and Melissa began to wrestle with the question, "What is a church in its most basic form?"   By the summer of 2020 Luis and Melissa were convinced that biblically faithful churches in their most basic expressions a...

The Simple Church Collective began in 2019 as a prevailing model church startup led by Luis and Melissa Sánchez. As COVID-19 changed the world the church changed with it. Luis and Melissa began to wrestle with the question, "What is a church in its most basic form?"   By the summer of 2020 Luis and Melissa were convinced that biblically faithful churches in their most basic expressions a...

Steve Pike leads Urban Islands Project. The ministry complements the efforts of sending organizations to start urban churches by facilitating real-time peer learning communities called virtual coaching clusters. At any given time, numerous church-planting agencies are busy launching new faith communities in urban neighborhoods. Urban Islands Project serves them by pulling together multiple planter...

Steve Pike leads Urban Islands Project. The ministry complements the efforts of sending organizations to start urban churches by facilitating real-time peer learning communities called virtual coaching clusters. At any given time, numerous church-planting agencies are busy launching new faith communities in urban neighborhoods. Urban Islands Project serves them by pulling together multiple planter...

We've dedicated the podcast to leaders operating in the trenches. Chris McCollough lives and serves on the frontlines of disciplemaking. He got a young start. He was preaching at age 16 which is not uncommon in the spiritual community where he grew up. He entered a Catholic university as a Pentecostal, served in an Episcopal campus missionary and graduated as a Southern Baptist. If you serve in a...