Michigan Ministry Network L3 Podcast

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today, we have Ben Murray, lead pastor of Northville Christian sharing with us how he goes about learning while having to be the one in charge. There's always something new to learn. It's a hard truth for some, and an exciting adventure for others. How are you supposed to go about on a learning journey w...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Happy New Year! We look back at 2024 with gratitude and look forward to 2025 with hope. Pastor Aaron Hlavin shares with us today on the importance of starting this year off with full reliance on God. We're called to fully pursue the Lord and with it being a new year, it's a great time for refresh our spi...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today, we have Brooks McElhenny, the MMN Secretary Treasurer sharing with us about the Acts 2 Journey. The Acts 2 Journey is a transformative process to help you fulfill your vision to strengthen your church spiritually, numerically, and relationally. You and a team of your church leaders would attend fo...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Merry Christmas Michigan Pastors and leaders! We here at the Michigan Ministry Network are so incredibly thankful for you. We are thankful that you choose to LIVE healthy lives, LEAD thriving churches, and LAUNCH into the communities around you. We pray this Christmas season is restful and filled with th...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today, we have Ben Vegh, Lead pastor of The Gateway Church, sharing with us on why Fine Arts for kids and students isn't just about showcasing talents, but giving them opportunities to minister through their giftings. Fine Arts is designed to celebrate the goodness of God through the talents He's given u...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. This episode today is a longer one but is PACKED with good information on how to keep a healthy marriage. Today, we have John and Judy Pyper, the National Directors of AG Marriage Encounter, sharing with us how to have and maintain a healthy marriage. If we can't have a healthy marriage, it's extremely d...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today, we have Jim Riley, our Live Director for the Network talking with us about our resource on conducting funerals or memorial services. This is one of the hardest, but most honoring part of being a pastor. But what do you do when it's a community member outside of your church? How can you connect and...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today, we have Pastor Aaron Hlavin sharing his heart on finding thankfulness in all things. First of all, we are so grateful for you, the pastors and leaders in our amazing state. There are so many reasons for us to be thankful during this time, but it's easy to lose track of those reasons if we don't fo...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today, we have John Opalewski, owner and founder of Converge Coaching which is all about helping pastors getting and remaining spiritually and mentally healthy. Today, we discuss the trends of the current church. The first thing we're seeing is that people are HUNGRY for the Word of God. There is such a...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today, we have Zach Preston, Kids pastor at Mount Hope and Kids Min Liaison for the MMN sharing with us on his passion and role in helping churches in our network with their children's ministries. There's such a massive need for a solid kids program in churches nowadays with many young families wanting t...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today, we have Gerad Strong, one of the directors at CMN (Church Multiplication Network), sharing with us on what it looks like to plant churches no matter the current size of your church. We have such a growing need for churches in this nation. We are all called to make disciples, this also means to tra...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today, we have John Zick, National Director of Called. Called is focused on equipping those who feel called into vocational ministry as quickly as possible. Called is about gaining, training, and retaining future ministers in the AG. This is a great program not just for future ministers, but for lead pas...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today, we have David Boyd, one of our speakers from ACLC and Fire Bible ambassador, sharing with us on the importance of the Fire Bible and the impact it's had on reaching the world. The Fire Bible is for those who want to not just read the Word, but study it enough to be able to teach the nuances of it....

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today, we have Julie Pratt, AG Director of Children's Discipleship, and one of our keynote speakers at our ACLC event sharing with us on how to minister to the next generation. How do we go about discipling the next generation? This is the most creative generation that will work jobs that don't even exis...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today, we have Bill Leach, former Michigan AG Superintendent sharing with us his lessons he's had to learn from 50 years of ordained ministry. "You have to love what you do." Pastor Bill has many years of ministry experience in all aspects and shares how God has pulled him through the toughest times and...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today we have Tom Forgo, Executive pastor at Vision Pointe Church talking with us on the importance of having fun and doing life with the people you lead. A culture of fun helps people in the church be less defensive, more productive, and more contagious. Vision Pointe has seen a culture of serving and v...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today we have Jeremy Gyorke, lead pastor of Wyandotte Family Church, sharing on the importance of taking care of not just your spirit, but your God created body as well. Why should physical health be important to us in ministry? Because our physical, spiritual, and mental health is all connected with eac...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today we have Steve Samonek, senior pastor of Abundant Life Assembly, sharing on how to maximize your creativity and ministry effectiveness in a limited space or with limited resources. Not everyone can break ground on a new building or start a massive expansion project. So how can we best utilize what w...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today we have Rocky Barra, Pastor Emeritus & Second Wind, AND Dave Stephens, Lead Pastor at Canton Connections Church sharing with us on how to transition leadership well in a church. Change can be hard for a church, especially when a new lead pastor takes over. So how can this be done in such a way...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today we have Rocky Barra, Pastor Emeritus & Second Wind, sharing with us on how to lead a church that will continue on after you. Having a succession mindset is something that Jesus taught his disciples, we as pastors need to follow that mindset not just in leading those around us, but leading those...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today we have Lisa Harrell, pastor at Revival Tabernacle, sharing her heart on what it means to love on the people in your community outside of your church. The local church should have a local heartbeat for what is happening around them. Pastor Lisa does an amazing job challenging the typical way of thi...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today we have Eddie Marcum, lead pastor at River of Life church talking with us about how to keep trusting God that the prodigal will come back. Pastor Eddie shares his personal story with us and what God has done in his life to bring him back. We all know someone that is believing that God is going brin...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today we have Mitch Frost, lead pastor of Tecumseh Assembly Of God, sharing with us on what healthy success looks like in ministry and what it really isn't. Success is becoming the person God has called you to become, and doing what God has called you to do in His way and in His time. Success doesn&#...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today we have Phil Eliason, lead pastor of Ann Arbor Assembly of God talking with us on the importance of character in ministry. There's the saying "your talents can take you to places where your character cannot sustain you." How can you know if your character is slipping? It's importa...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today we have Tom Mattiuzzo, co-pastor of Every Nation Church in Flint sharing with us on how to provide care for not just those inside your church, but those in your community. As churches, we need to have a culture of compassion, caring, and serving, just as Jesus had for himself and the disciples. The...