The Ralph Moore Podcast

This is the third installment of a highly informative interview. Following a near-fatal car accident at age 17, pastor's son Jarrell Flowers got serious with Jesus. That set him on a path toward fruitfulness in the commercial music world as well as in ministry.   He's involved in live concerts, music production and community engagement. His songs are featured in both mainstream and Christian...

This is the second part of a three-part interview. Following a near-fatal car accident at age 17, pastor's son Jarrell Flowers got serious with Jesus. That set him on a path toward fruitfulness in the commercial music world as well as in ministry.   He's involved in live concerts, music production and community engagement. His songs are featured in both mainstream and Christian markets. Jarre...

Following a near-fatal car accident at age 17, pastor's son Jarrell Flowers got serious with Jesus. That set him on a path toward fruitfulness in the commercial music world as well as in ministry. He's involved in live concerts, music production and community engagement. His songs are featured in both mainstream and Christian markets. Jarrell aspires to make music that brings people together in a...

In the second part of this interview, Dustin brings advice to others in "God's waiting room." He specifically addresses those who might not be in a situation as good as his. You may hope to plant a church, but your current church isn't warm to the idea. Dustin and I get into the possibility of planting a church bivocationally while keeping your job in your home church. Finally, we discuss avenues...

Dustin Anderson is on deck to plant a church - but he's been there a while. Dustin leads community outreach and disciplemaking groups in a thriving Southern California church while anticipating an eventual plant. For some, that feels like living in God's waiting room. His experience may parallel your own. This is also the story of an exciting young church broadening its footprint during the pandem...

Meet my friend Joe Mabe. He's a fourth-generation church planter from my days in Hope Chapel Hermosa Beach. We sent 20-year-old Jeff Fisher to plant what became Hope of the Valley Church with a bunch of his surfer buddies. Our youth guy, Dale Yancy, accompanied him as staff pastor/babysitter. A few years in Jeff and company sent Dale to plant a Hope Chapel in Nashua, NH. Dale later sent Tom Johnst...

This is the second part of a hugely instructive interview. While many young pastors minimalize or even erase, the history of a church; Steve chose to build on the heritage of the church he pastors. Planted by two young women on bicycles in nationwide poverty immediately following World War 2, the church had suffered a leadership crisis on a seven-year cycle until Steve recognized and broke it. Thi...

This interview is hugely instructive. While many young pastors minimalize or even erase, the history of a church; Steve chose to build on the heritage of the church he pastors. Planted by two young women on bicycles in nationwide poverty immediately following World War 2, the church had suffered a leadership crisis on a seven-year cycle until Steve recognized and broke it. This is a rapidly growin...

Bob Mallord joined the first Hope Chapel in its earliest days. A natural leader, and a bit of a rebel, he stood out as a person others were eager to follow. However, he didn't see himself as a leader and struggled when I did. Our friendship ran deep but he resisted the ICNU talks over and over. Eventually, he grabbed the reins after starting a Bible study in a very tough town, Venice, California....

Bob Mallord joined the first Hope Chapel in its earliest days. A natural leader, and a bit of a rebel, he stood out as a person others were eager to follow. However, he didn't see himself as a leader and struggled when I did. Our friendship ran deep but he resisted the ICNU talks over and over. Eventually, he grabbed the reins after starting a Bible study in a very tough town, Venice, California....

Neil is an apostolic catalyst for the global organic church movement. He’s the founder of Church Multiplication Associates, CMAResources and Starling Initiatives. He’s written more than a dozen books, including Organic Church , Cultivating a Life for God , Church 3.0 and Primal Fire . His journey in God's kingdom brought him to serve in a mega church, a local community church and now small rapidly...

Neil is an apostolic catalyst for the global organic church movement. He’s the founder of Church Multiplication Associates, CMAResources and Starling Initiatives. He’s written more than a dozen books, including Organic Church , Cultivating a Life for God , Church 3.0 and Primal Fire . His journey in God's kingdom brought him to serve in a mega church, a local community church and now small rapidly...

Beginning with a crucial decision by Mercy Road Church, Multiply Indiana was born. With vision for the entire state, the group has multiplied 18 churches on their way to 100 by 2030. They hosted recent event, "March for a Million," anticipating a couple of hundred people gathered in Monument Circle in the center of Indianapolis. More than a thousand showed up. The crowd represented 72 congregation...

This interview was a romp. Peyton is my near neighbor and a great friend. We have much in common which renders this podcast a little different from the norm -- we just had fun talking. The new book, Church Plantology, is a textbook dealing with obedience to Jesus, spiritual gifts and ways to earn money if bivo is where you are going. Trained as a nurse, Peyton has served as a staff pastor in the c...

Listen to why Danny let weeds grow around a new church campus for months before taking occupancy. In part three of this podcast, you’ll hear Danny Bennett thanking God for the once-in-a-lifetime gift he gave us all in the midst of the tragedy we call COVID-19. He’ll describe how a bunch of young surfers and skaters received a second church campus gifted from an older congregation. And he gets into...

This is part two. You owe yourself part one before listening to this episode. Danny and Jenny Bennett planted Santa Cruz Hope under difficult circumstances. Sent to help a struggling church they began evangelizing people who wouldn't join that church. Intent on planting, they needed to plant without disrupting the original congregation. They felt constricted by God to pray people into the new cong...

This is the first of three podcasts featuring my good friend, Danny Bennett. Danny and Jenny planted Hope Church in Santa Cruz a decade ago. A congregation of surfers and skaters, eventually turned a church auditorium into an indoor skate park that hosts a church gathering on Sundays. But, that's for episode two. The interview started with their church plant in Portland, Oregon. Beginning at the o...

Ben and his wife, Angela, founded The Village, a church in Greer, SC in September, 2019 shortly before the onslaught of COVID-19. Intent on planting a church while maintaining a career in graphic design Ben was well-placed to flourish in the face of the pandemic. When facing the crisis, the church quickly re-organized as a congregation of online microchurches. When possible they’ve met face-to-fac...

This is one of the most productive podcast interviews in my short history of these attempts. Rob Wegner is a good friend and a super intellect. Better yet, he understands the way forward after the pandemic taught us all the fragility of church as we've known it since Constantine, and certainly the way it looked so long ago back in 2019. You'll laugh, and perhaps cry, through this interview. Cut th...

OCNWTR churches began with a 10,000 bicycle Ride. Dr. Ryan Delamater rode his bicycle from Vancouver Island to the east coast of Canada, back to San Diego and on to the nation of Columbia. Suffering divorce and depressed, he set out on this bicycle to heal and try to find his way in 1010. As he rode, he learned that people don't have clean water in a small village in El Salvador. Upon returning ho...

Part two of this interview moves into more results of following the Spirit without knowing quite where he's leading. It moves into some "how-to" information. But the kicker is what happened in the lives of these two people after they launched Ps150. Not only is the ministry progressing without them but God led and is still leading into new territory. They moved to New Mexico, at the Lord's leading...

This is the story of a police officer and a school administrator renting space (with their own money) and planting a church in one of Honolulu's most difficult neighborhoods. A gang shooting motivated the Kalamas to do "something more." They had already spent an evening each month on the streets of Honolulu's skid row when the violence occurred. That something more took the form of a microchurch t...

Gabe Kolstad leads Westside Community Church, a multisite and church planting congregation. He also leads Multiply PDX, a collective of churches intent on changing the future of Portland Oregon. Join the discussion as we delve into Gabe's experience leading a growing multi-site church that now plants churches, is investigating the hybrid future of the church and spearheads a collaborative, strengt...

OCNWTR is the product of more than 10,000 miles of riding a bike. After a painful divorce, Ryan rode across Canada, then across the United States and finally to Columbia in South America. All in a (fruitful) attempt to find peace and regain a healthy perspective. During the ride to Columbia, he posted a blog in support of an NGO providing water filters in places where drinking water is unsafe. Tha...

Join this discussion of the future of the church as it relates to both the New Testament and the current cultural surround. You'll learn about "boutique" vs "franchise" as those concepts relate to the church you lead, and more importantly, to the churches you may multiply. We'll get into the underlying differences between churches at Level 3 addition, 3.5 multisite, 4 reproduction and the kind of...