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  Welcome back to the unSeminary podcast and thanks for spending your day with us. Today we’re chatting with  Joshua Mauney , founding pastor of Turning Point Church in Lexington, Kentucky. Turning Point Church is a fantastic church whose mission is to be known for the restoration of the family. When you step through its doors, Turning Point should feel like a breath of fresh air in your lung...

  Happy Thursday, everyone, and thanks so much for joining us for this week’s unSeminary podcast. Today we have Christa Hesselink with us. She works in the church and non-profit context and is currently the Director of Next Generation Engagement with the Brethren in Christ in Canada. At 24, Christa was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. She knew it would be a difficult time, but she faced...

  Welcome to this week’s episode of the unSeminary podcast. We’re happy to have you join us today as we talk with Mark Molina of Westover Hills Assembly of God in San Antonio, Texas. Westover Hills Assembly of God has three campuses and about 4,000 people who come to hear God’s Word. The church was started in 1986, back when, as Mark says, “the only things here were Seaworld, QVC, and our chu...

  Thanks so much for taking the time to listen to the unSeminary podcast today. I’m honored to have Darren DeLaune from New Life Church in Arkansas with us today. New Life started in 2001 and now has 10 locations with 12,000 people. One of the fastest growing churches in the country, they describe themselves as a relational church—their ministry and the way they work is all centered around re...

  Welcome to this week’s episode of the unSeminary podcast. I’m pumped for today’s conversation with Clay Gatlin from Faith Christian Community in Anchorage, Alaska. Faith Christian Community is a non-denominational church in Anchorage, which was created by the merging of two other churches. Clay says that Anchorage is an extremely diverse city, full of broken people who need a welcoming plac...

  Hey, everyone! Thanks so much for joining us today for the unSeminary podcast. We have a great guest today, Joel Schmidgall of National Community Church in Washington, DC. National Community Church was started in 1996 by Mark Batterson and is known as the Theater Church because it has several locations in old theaters. Joel is the executive pastor at NCC and oversees launches of new locatio...

  Welcome back to the unSeminary podcast. Thank you for joining us today. Our guest for this week’s episode is John Cox from Watermark Church . Watermark Church is in Dallas, Texas, and has three campuses with an average of 14,000 people each Sunday. Watermark has set out to reach people who have been turned off by church in the past and invite them to come back and experience a real relation...

  Welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast! We’re honored to have you join us today and we are honored to have Mike Ash from Next Level Church in Florida talking with us. Next Level started in 2002 and is a multisite church with two campuses and about 3000 people attending each Sunday. For about nine years Next Level was a portable church and they just moved into a permanent location about t...

  Welcome to the unSeminary podcast. Today we’re honored to have Layne Schranz from Church of the Highlands . Church of the Highlands was started in 2001 and now has 12 campuses with 31,000 members. It was started as part of an experiment among a small group of pastors and was so successful, it developed into a new model of church planting which became the Association of Related Churches (ARC...

  Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining in to this week’s episode of the unSeminary podcast. Today our guest is Mark Mellen at Elevate Life Church in Florida. Elevate Life has about 1200 attendees and is one of the fastest growing churches in the country. Mark describes Elevate Life as a contemporary, young families church with a senior pastor who is 35 years old. Mark is the executive p...

  Welcome back to this week’s episode of the unSeminary podcast. I’m excited to have Darin Poli, Executive Pastor of River Valley Church , with me today. River Valley Church is a great church in the Twin Cities metro area of Minnesota and is celebrating their 20th anniversary this year. They have an attractional model of church—they want to attract people to the church and then send them out...

  Hello, everyone! Welcome to this episode of unSeminary. Thank you so much for tuning in. I’m honored to have Brent Dolfo from Leadership Network today. I like to say Leadership Network guys are the smartest guys in the room! They’re an organization that is really dedicated to increasing the impact churches are having by networking together thinkers and doers from dynamic churches around the...

  Welcome to this episode of the unSeminary podcast. Today I’m excited to have Bob Smith of 2|42 Community Church on the show. 2|42 Community Church was started in 2005 and has been one of the fastest growing churches in the country for a few years in a row, now having about 4,000 attendees. Bob was the campus pastor at the largest campus in Brighton for the last five years, but he now focuse...

  Hey, everybody, and welcome back to the unSeminary podcast. Thank you so much for taking the time to listen to today’s interview. We have Greg Curtis with us today, from Eastside Church in Anaheim, California . Eastside Church has two locations, one in California and one in Minnesota. Greg  first came to Eastside Church at the age of fourteen and his experience in the youth group there chan...

  Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of unSeminary! Today I’m excited to be speaking with Deborah Ike of Velocity Ministry Management . What is Velocity Ministry Management? It’s a company that helps church leaders implement systems to manage their churches better. Deborah has a heart for ministry and a head for business. She’s worked with many different churches over the years a...

  Thank you so much for taking the time to listen in during this busy season. Today I’m honored to have Kevin Negaard with us. Kevin is the executive director at Sunnybrook Community Church . Sunnybrook was started in the 1960s, but had a turnaround in the early 2000s and became almost a new church. Kevin never intended to work for the church and actually led the search committee for the next...

  Welcome back, everyone. Today I’m honored to have Mark Lunsford of Hope Fellowship with us today. Hope Fellowship is one of the fastest growing churches in the country. It started with 51 people in Frisco, Texas, in 2001. It now has 3 campuses and over 5,000 attendees. Mark is the executive pastor at Hope Fellowship. He partners with lead pastor, John Mackenzie, to plan what’s next at Hope...

  Welcome back to the unSeminary podcast! We have a great episode today with our guest Pastor Derwin Gray . You may have heard of Pastor Derwin – he leads the multi-ethnic, multi-generational Transformation Church . It is a mission-based church with four campuses near Charlotte, North Carolina. Derwin grew up unchurched, but attended Brigham Young University, where he met his wife, who...

  Hello, everyone! I’m so glad you stopped by to spend some time with us here at the unSeminary podcast. Today I’m talking with Darryl Taliaferro . Darryl is the executive pastor at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee . Mt. Zion was started in 1866. The current pastor started there in 1992 with just 75 people, but the membership has now grown to 22,000 people a weekend. Being the...

  Thanks so much for taking time out of your busy schedule to listen in to today’s podcast. I’m excited to be speaking with Jayne Poli from River Valley Church . If you aren’t already following River Valley Church, you should be. It is a fast growing church that is made up of nine campuses and about 6500 people. Jayne is Life Teams Director at River Valley. Life teams are serving teams that u...

  Welcome back to the unSeminary Podcast. Today I’m really pumped to be speaking with Ryan Britt of Church of Eleven22 in Florida . Ryan is the Executive Ministries Pastor of Church of Eleven22. Originally beginning as a young adults service at 11:22 AM at Beach Church, the service had such an incredible turnout, it eventually launched into its own church, led by Pastor Joby Martin. The refer...

  Thanks so much for joining us again for today’s episode of unSeminary. I’m here today with Clayton Walker from Experience Life Church in West Texas. Experience Life Church was started in 2007 and has grown phenomenally, now with 5 locations. Clayton is the executive pastor and he oversees the campuses and ministries. He also speaks each week at one of the church’s campuses at Texas Tech Uni...

  Today’s guest and I have literally tried for months to get together and so I’m honored to have her with us today. Christine Kreisher is a connections pastor at GT Church in Pennsylvania . As the connections pastor, Christine oversees the first time guest’s experience and discipleship with GT Church. Christine also works with volunteer services and is co-author of the book, The Volunteer Pro...

  Thanks for listening in today! I’m honored to have Jim Pourteau from Destination Church joining me on the podcast. Jim is both an executive pastor and campus pastor at Destination. He started as a volunteer who was looking for a place to worship, but in the process of serving, Jim fell in love with Destination Church and found his home there. Destination Church started in 2011 and is growin...

  Hello, everyone. Today I’m happy to be chatting with Chad Fisher from Rock City Church in Columbus, Ohio . Rock City Church has been pegged as one of the fastest growing churches in the country for two years in a row, so obviously they’ve gotten some things figured out around those parts. Chad was a young man who wanted to serve in ministry, but found that there was a real disconnect genera...