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  Hello, everyone! Thanks for listening in to the unSeminary podcast. Today I’m honored to have Hal Seed from New Song Community Church in Oceanside, California . New Song is a church with five campuses that is doing a lot of great stuff and reaching their community with a big impact. It was first planted 23 years ago in Oceanside, California, which has a large military community. Each year N...

  Today I’m excited to be talking again with Larry Hubatka from Elevation Church . For those who don’t know, Elevation Church was founded in 2006 by Pastor Steven Furtick and his wife Holly in Charlotte, NC. Elevation Church has now grown to 13 locations–10 in the Charlotte area, 1 in Raleigh-Durham, 1 in Roanoke, VA, and 1 in the greater Toronto area. Elevation Church always wanted to...

  We’re happy to be back and talking today with Josh Whitehead from Faith Promise Church in Knoxville, TN. Faith Promise has been around for 20 years and started in Oak Ridge, TN, without a pastor. The original group wanted to impact the unchurched in their community by being a different kind of church. The church now has 5 campuses and reaches over 6,000 people at its locations. Listen in as...

Subscribe to the  un Seminary Podcast: [ iTunes ] [ RSS ] [ Stitcher ] [ TuneIn ] //  [ VIDEO iTunes ] [ VIDEO RSS ] Programming Note // The unSeminary Podcast is going to be on a hiatus until September. We’ll return then with lots of great new episodes with some fascinating church leaders. Enjoy the summer! Today’s episode is a little different than usual. Instead of hosting an interview wi...

  Once again, Frank Bealer from Elevation Church is joining me on today’s podcast. Elevation Church is doing a lot of exciting things in their growth and Frank is here to tell us how they’ve learned to help each other. Helping each other grow It can be hard sometimes to work across departments within a church, trying to work with everyone’s schedules and make sure everything is communicated t...

  I’m super excited to have Adrian Schoonmaker from Grace Community Church in the Hudson Valley, New York, with us today. We’ll be talking about what it takes to develop spiritual coaches that can go out and really spread the church’s message and bring people to Christ. About Grace Community Church Grace Community Church started about 30 years ago. About 5 or 6 years ago, they started to see...

  Have you ever stopped to think how amazing the human brain is? It’s capable of so many reactions in an amazingly short time. God gave us this brain, so doesn’t it make sense to understand it and learn how to use it to the full advantage within your ministry? Today, we have Charles Stone on the show to give us some tips on just how to do that. About Charles’s journey to understanding the bra...

  Today I’m excited to have my friend George Mekhail from EastLake Church again. He’s talked with us before on opening multiple campuses, and today he’s back to talk with another topic his church has recently faced. About EastLake George is always thinking about what’s next in life, society, and church. He’s been with the team at EastLake for four years now and has helped the church face one...

  Today we’re talking with two people who can help us take a new look at missions work. Pastor Randy Hollis joins us today from Believer’s Church in Louisville, Kentucky, and Trip Critz joins us from Poverty Dignified in Charlotte, North Carolina. About Believer’s Church Pastor Randy has been with Believer’s Church for eighteen years and has been involved in missions work for a long time. His...

  Thank you for joining in for this week’s episode of the unSeminary podcast. Today I’m talking with Rodney Arnold of One Life Church in Knoxville. Rodney and I are mutual friends with one of my previous podcast guests, Bobby Williams , and I’m happy to get the chance to speak with him this week. About One Life Church Rodney worked as a worship leader at a church plant in Knoxville that had a...

  Joining me on the unSeminary podcast this week is John Finkelde from Perth, Australia. John has been in the ministry for about 33 years. He spent 10 years as a team pastor, followed by 20 years as a lead pastor. About 3 years ago, John and his wife began a new ministry, “Grow a Healthy Church.” Over the past 36 months, the couple has completed 64 four-day consultations with churches, workin...

    This week on the unSeminary podcast, I was honored to welcome the Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of Communication at Azusa University, Dr. Ryan Hartwig. I first met Ryan while he was doing research for a new book. He visited with me on today’s podcast about that book which he co-authored with Warren Bird, and which was recently rele...

  Welcome to this Thursday’s edition of the podcast here on unSeminary. I’m so excited you’re tuning in this week because today, we’re going global! For the first time here on the podcast, a Non-North American church leader is joining me: Morgan Herselman, of Southpoint Church in Cape Town, South Africa. Morgan starts off the podcast by giving us a little background about himself. He grew up...

    Welcome to this Thursday’s edition of the unSeminary podcast. This week I’m super-excited to be talking to Chris Vacher, also known as Chris from Canada, who is an excellent leader at C4 Church, east of Toronto. Chris got this week’s session started by filling us in on his ministry at C4. The church was founded 30 years ago and has changed locations twice, both times moving eastward,...

    This week I was blessed to have Mike Linch share with me his take on the importance of churches forming relationships with and staying connected to the people in their communities. Mike is a pastor in Kennesaw, Georgia. His church, NorthStar started as a church plant a little more than 18 years ago. Like most churches that begin as “plants,” their goal was to reach people who were no...

  Welcome to this Thursday’s podcast on unSeminary. Today, I had the privilege of talking to Ron Walborn, Dean of Alliance Theological Seminary. We talked about assessment and how to determine if people are growing. I asked Ron what sort of things we should be thinking about as pastors when it comes to assessing people’s growth. Ron explains that the word “assessment” is increasingly on the l...

  This week on the unSeminary Podcast, Tim Cool with Cool Solutions joined me for a tremendously informative and enlightening conversation about stewarding the facilities God has entrusted to us. Tim is the father of 18-year-old triplets who are in their last quarter of high school, almost ready to take the leap into college. He is in the business of helping churches build, plan and design their b...

  Today’s podcast is a replay of one of our very first episodes because I think it’s important for leaders to wrestle with what this leader has to say. We’re launching a brand new course in unSeminary Premium called Email 201 … it’s all about leveraging email as a marketing and communications tool for your church. This interview is with a church leader who is alr...

Subscribe to the  un Seminary Podcast: [ iTunes ] [ RSS ] [ Stitcher ] [ TuneIn ] //  [ VIDEO iTunes ] [ VIDEO RSS ] Internships are all about investing in the next generation! On today’s podcast I have two friends and collegues – Sara Defazio & Jason Yost  – and we have a conversation about what we’ve been learning about internships at Liquid Church. This episode is pe...

Subscribe to the  un Seminary Podcast: [ iTunes ] [ RSS ] [ Stitcher ] [ TuneIn ] //  [ VIDEO iTunes ] [ VIDEO RSS ] Today’s conversation is with three leaders who work to help churches like yours and mine in the whole area of generosity and systems. We discuss a brand new report that that explores the relationship between donor behavior and new technologies like mobile giving and online giv...

  Sarah Stanley is the Youth Support Pastor at The Meeting House … a 15 campus multisite church! In this interview Sarah gives some great insights into how to motivate students to engage in compassionate outreach into their communities. She talks about some the lessons they’ve been learning about seeing students get out of their seats and onto the streets to serve! This is a fanta...

Subscribe to the  un Seminary Podcast: [ iTunes ] [ RSS ] [ Stitcher ] [ TuneIn ] //  [ VIDEO iTunes ] [ VIDEO RSS ] Tim Stevens is a team leader with the Vanderbloemen Search Group, an executive search firm that helps churches and ministries find great leaders. Previously he was the executive pastor at Granger Community Church in Indiana. During his twenty years there, he helped grow the church t...

Subscribe to the  un Seminary Podcast: [ iTunes ] [ RSS ] [ Stitcher ] [ TuneIn ] //  [ VIDEO iTunes ] [ VIDEO RSS ] Jordan Schiller is a part of the leadership team at Real Thread . This is fantastic conversation as we chat about how t-shirts can be a ministry tool. Real Thread produces hundreds of thousands of shirts every year and in this conversation we dive into what they’ve learn from...

Subscribe to the  un Seminary Podcast: [ iTunes ] [ RSS ] [ Stitcher ] [ TuneIn ] //  [ VIDEO iTunes ] [ VIDEO RSS ] Scott Cochrane is the Vice President of International Ministries at the Willow Creek Association . The WCA was birthed out of the Chicagoland church called Willow Creek Community Church and has a passion for helping leaders develop around the world. In this conversation, Scott talks...

Subscribe to the  un Seminary Podcast: [ iTunes ] [ RSS ] [ Stitcher ] [ TuneIn ] //  [ VIDEO iTunes ] [ VIDEO RSS ] Dan is the the Executive Pastor of 12 Stone Church in Georgia. He’s been known as the “pastors’ coach” because he provides practical and encouraging insights for pastors across the country. In this episode Dan gives us a behind the scenes look at 12Stone Church and it’s Pionee...