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On today’s episode, we have Pastor Becca Reynolds from Valley Creek Church. We dive deep in some practical help for raising up next generation of leaders for your church. Don’t miss this! Thank You for Tuning In! There are a lot of podcasts you could be tuning into today, but you chose unSeminary, and I’m grateful for that. If you enjoyed today’s show, please  share   it  by using the ...

Joanna la Fleur is the Creative Communications Director at C4 Church in the Eastern Suburbs of Toronto, Canada. This is a fast growing multisite church aiming to impact 10,000 people within their community. In this conversation, Joanna provides some uber practical advice on how to balance all the various communications needs in your church! Thank You for Tuning In! There are a lot of podcasts you...

Drake De Long-Farmer is the executive pastor at Gateway Church where he leads various teams  (including HOUSE PARTIES and our Pastoral Team), working with key staff and interns in ministry development and also oversees Gateway operations. Discipleship is at the core of his role and ministry teams. Drake is a passionate Frenchman with a love for God and others. He loves to see people of all ages co...

Josh Baird is the Associate Pastor of The Life Church and serves with his wife, Brittney, as Campus Pastor of the Warrenton Campus. They are the proud parents of one beautiful daughter, Raylee, and 3 sons, Roman, Judah, & Israel. Josh is a passionate, visionary leader who believes in raising up next generation leaders and helping equip people in every generation to live out Christ’s purpose in...

Brookside Community Church resides on the near-Eastside of Indianapolis and David Cederquist is it’s pastor. BCC is a culturally and ethnically diverse family whose primary focus is to walk with each other in our brokenness in love and humility. All the while pursuing Christ as our Savior and Lord opening ourselves up to His transformative work on the cross to atone for, reconcile, and estab...

Hey, everybody, and welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast. We’re happy to have you here today as we talk with Justin Varghese , executive pastor at Venue Church . Venue Church is probably the youngest church we’ve featured on the podcast. It was started in 2013 and is one of the fastest growing churches in America. They have two locations – one in Tennessee and one in Georgia. It’s a non...

Thanks so much for listening in today on the unSeminary podcast. It’s so great to have you joining us and we’re excited to be talking with Matt Robertson . Matt is from Gateway Fellowship Church , which started in 2008 in San Antonio. Gateway has done a lot of amazing things in reaching out to their community and church planting. The church started small in a living room and moved around to variou...

Thanks so much for joining us today for the unSeminary podcast. Today we have Matt Hessel from Traders Point Christian Church . Traders Point Christian Church was founded in 1834. The church has grown a lot in the last eight years. They currently have two campuses and are getting ready to launch their third in downtown Indianapolis. Matt says the church doesn’t have a growth strategy, but their me...

Thanks so much for listening in today on the unSeminary podcast. It’s so great to have you joining us as we talk with Greg Atkinson. Greg has joined us on the unSeminary podcast twice before, and we’re happy to have him with us for a third time. Today we’re talking with Greg about first impressions. He’s just released a new book called Secrets of a Secret Shopper , which is a great resource on how...

It’s been said that success doesn’t really happen until successful succession. Prevailing churches across the country are working on how to move through succession in a purposeful was a generation of leaders consider what their legacy is in ministry. Today’s podcast is an interview with Chris Bonham from Grace Family Church in Florida , a church in the midst of a unique successio...

Thanks for joining us for this week’s unSeminary podcast. We have Jeremy Dager with us, from Mercy Hill Church in Greensboro, North Carolina. Mercy Hill just recently turned four years old and is on the precipice of becoming a multi-site church. Jeremy leads the age-based ministry, which includes the kids, student, and college ministries. Greensboro has several colleges in the area with thousands...

Welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast and thank you so much for joining in. We have Lee Kricher with us. Lee started preaching with Amplify Church in the suburbs of Pittsburgh in 2003, which was really at a moment of much needed revitalization. Amplify started in the late 70s and had very strong growth until about 1990 when it began to decline. In the last thirteen years, they’ve done everythi...

Hey, everybody, and thank you so much for tuning in with us on the unSeminary podcast. I’m honored to have Pastor Shell Osbon with us today from Life Church in Smyrna, Georgia . Life Church of Smyrna started 63 years ago and Shell Osbon has been lead pastor for the past 13 years. If someone were to visit Life Church today, it would look a lot different than it did in earlier years. Whereas previou...

Hey, everybody, and welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast. I’ve been excited about having our guest on today, Katie Allred from Brentwood Baptist  in Tennessee. Katie is the web content manager at Brentwood and is charge of web, email, and social media. Brentwood is an innovative contemporary church right on the edge of Nashville and they work to use social media in an intentional way to engag...

Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to join us here at the unSeminary podcast. Today we have Donnie Griggs from One Harbor Church in Morehead City, North Carolina . One Harbor was planted eight years ago in the small coastal town of Morehead City. It started small and then grew quickly. The church became multi-site four years ago and now have locations in Swansboro and Beaufort, with...

Thanks for joining us for this week’s unSeminary podcast. We have a great guest today, Todd Adkins of LifeWay Resources . Todd is from Kentucky and grew up in small churches where he learned a lot about leadership from his father and uncles who were all pastors. In college Todd studied speech and philosophy and eventually ended up going to seminary and becoming a pastor himself. He served as the E...

Thanks so much for spending some of your day with us at the unSeminary podcast. Today we have a great guest with us, Kent Jacobs of Epic Church . Epic Church started in 2008 and is experiencing tremendous growth in Philadelphia . In the northeast part of the country, most people either have no church background or else follow a pretty traditional church experience. Epic Church is a multi-site chur...

Welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast and thank you so much for taking time out of your busy day to join us. Today we’re honored to have Carey Nieuwhof  with us. Carey is the founding and teaching pastor of Connexus Church just north of Toronto . Carey describes Canada as being a post-modern, post-Christian country. Going to church is the minority among the people. Most traffic on Sunday...

Hey, everybody, and welcome to the unSeminary podcast. I’ve been looking forward to this podcast and am excited to share it with you all. Today we have Dave  and  Scott  from Redeemer Dubai . Dave and his wife started Redeemer Dubai after praying for guidance on where to go to help lead people to Christ. They stopped in Dubai between ministries in China and Kenya and were fascinated by what they s...

Welcome back to the unSeminary Podcast. Today I’m super excited to be talking with John Finkelde again. John is a church leader from Australia and runs an organization called Grow a Healthy Church . Australia is a very secular culture and less than 10% attend church regularly. Australians are a very independent culture probably because of their isolation as a country, and so church leaders have to...

Welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast and thanks for joining us today. We have lead pastor Robert Manda with us from Eastern Light Presbyterian Church in Malawi in the southern part of Africa. Eastern Light was started by South Korean missionaries in 2006. It is a church that is still growing and very focused on the Word of God. They continue to reach out to whole families in their community b...

Thanks so much for taking time out of your busy schedule to join us today. I’m excited to have Ross Lester with us all the way from Johannesburg, South Africa . He’s the pastor at Bryanston Bible Church . South Africa is full of opportunity and challenges as far as ministry goes. There is a lot of poverty in the country, along with the highest HIV infection rates in the world. In South Africa alon...

Hello, everybody, and thanks so much for joining us today. I’m excited to have Yoshito Noguchi with us, all the way from Tokyo, Japan . The greater area of Tokyo is about 36 million people and less than 1% are Christian. There are only 1,000 Christian churches in Tokyo to serve those 36 million people. Yoshito explains that most people he meets have never heard the gospel or held a bible in their...

Thanks so much for joining us today with this week’s unSeminary podcast. This month we’ve been talking with church leaders around the globe about what God is doing in their part of the world and what we can learn in our own ministries. Today we’re speaking with Ken Costa , the founder and author of God at Work as well as the chairman of Alpha International . He’s from the United Kingdom, though he...

Hello and thank you for joining us for this week’s unSeminary podcast. We’re super excited this week to have Tyler Reagin with us from  Catalyst . The Catalyst organization runs Catalyst Conferences around the country. The organization was started about 16 years ago by John Maxwell, who wanted to connect and invest in the next generation of leaders in addition to the generation that was already at...