Exponential Australia Church Leaders Podcast

Chris Podlich, church planter and mentor to church planters for the Lutheran Church shares his unique journey of an emerging vision to plant a church his unchurched friends would attend. Now Beyond Church is a highly successful multiplying church plant in Brisbane. https://exponential.org.au/

Pete and his wife Bee have become globally recognised leaders pressing into renewal in God’s church within the United Kingdom. Having planted KXC (Kings Cross Church) 12 years ago, they have become serial “senders”, sending 7 different church plants of all different flavours. https://exponential.org.au/

Mike and Jenny lead a wonderful young church called Encounter Church planted from within the Uniting Churches in Adelaide. They share about the great challenges of pioneering something new, as well as how do couples lead and minister together with all its relational complexity. https://exponential.org.au/

Amit Khaira works with Compassion in Perth, WA. Amit has been very involved with the birthing of “Movement day” and other such initiatives. He shares with Charlie from Exponential Australia, about a concept called GeoNetworking (Geographical Networking), and how churches can pray, serve, and disciple out of the recognised needs of communities and cities. https://exponential.org.au/

How to Identify & Qualify Church Planters.  Charlie Burke of Exponential Australia interviews Adam Ramsey, Network Director Of Acts 29 Asia Pacific. Adam explains how to identify Church planters and the qualification process, as well as offering other insights into effective Church planting. https://exponential.org.au/

Julie-anne Laird is the Anglican Canon for Church Planting in Melbourne, as well as being part of the Australian City to City team. Here Julie-anne talks about her work with the Anglican Church to stimulate church planting across the city. https://exponential.org.au/

Bree Mills, the Director of Micro Church Australia, talks about micro churches in Australia and describes five components that healthy micro churches should possess. https://exponential.org.au/

NSW and ACT Baptists have an audacious goal of increasing their number of churches threefold by 2050. And they have a well thought out "Blended Ecology" Strategy that identifies four different models of church structure that will suit different planters in different locations. There's a lot that we can learn from the wisdom Jamie Freeman shares as he leads his movement's charge of church multiplic...

James Schleusener shares some of the confronting truths faced in God's calling to church planting, and even some of the mistakes made in the first couple of years. He talks of the temptation to imitate certain models, while God placed the gifts of entrepreneurialism and creativity in his heart. Inspiring and honest reflections for any planter considering the type of Church God is calling them to p...

Edi Stephenson from BDC talks about why building a discipling culture is critical if our churches are to reach people and make disciples. At present in Australia, the average rate at which churches see people make first-time faith commitments is only approximately one person a year per every 100 people attending the church. Edi describes how by coaching leaders in applying the words, works an...