Michigan Ministry Network L3 Podcast

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode we have, Zach Preston, kids pastor at Mount Hope Church and kids ministry liaison for the MMN talking about the state of Kids ministry in the local church. What is the current state of kids ministry as as whole? What are kids, and kids ministry volunteers/leaders needing to thrive?...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode we have, Mike Houser, lead pastor of Holland First Assembly of God. Today, we're talking about restoring hope to a defeated church. What do you do when things seem like they're falling around you? What are the opportunities on the other side of that chaos? There's good...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode we have, Raymond Marshall, Student Ministries Director the for MMN! This last weekend we watch as God healed, saved, and called students at Youth Convention and figured it would be a great time to talk about the greatest things about this next generation. How can we as pastors and...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode we have, Rhonda Trask, director of the MMN Narrative Ministry, who's mission is to Increase awareness of the need for foster care and adoption. The topic for today is Foster and Adoption care in the church. What should we be doing as the church? Should your church have a foster...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode, we have Casey Arnouts, pastor at Grace Assembly of God, sharing with us on the topic "Intergenerational worship". Simply put, it's about creating a space for all generations to worship together as one. How do we go about this though? How do you take the different ele...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. ***This episode was recorded before the most recent attacks on Israel. On today's episode, we have Brooks McElhenny, MMN Secretary Treasurer, talking about peace. This episode is all about peace whether that's finding it in yourself or showing it to those around us. We all have our own thoughts o...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode, we have Bradley T. Trask, lead pastor of Brighton Assembly of God and Assistant Superintendent of the Michigan Ministry Network! The topic of discussion of all things leadership. Leading intentionally is becoming more and more rare as time goes on, we as the church cannot afford t...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode, we have Lisa Marsack, executive pastor at Bridgewood Church, sharing what it means to be fully you while leading in the church. What do we do when ministry tries to change us from who we know God created us to be? How are we supposed to go about taking a step back and evaluate if...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode, we have Cal Garcia, lead pastor of Auburn Hills Christian Center, sharing on how to create a culture of diversity in the local church. Pastor Cal works with many diverse cultures in his church, not just ethnically, but also different socioeconomic backgrounds. If the Kingdom of Go...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode, we have Herb Helsel, lead pastor at The Grove Church, sharing with us on the subject how to lead a growing church without losing yourself. What healthy habits, thoughts, and patterns do you need to have to keep yourself healthy? What are the hard decisions do you need to make for...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode, we have Randy Merren, former lead pastor and now missionary to Middle Eastern refugees in the Metro Detroit area. This is a very important conversion we are having today about what missionaries like the least about calling pastors for support. It's not easy being a missionary...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode, we have Jeremy Gyorke, lead pastor at Wyandotte Family Church, talking about the life and rhythms of a church planter. What are the habits, process, and relationships that every church planter needs to stay healthy? Church planting is so important! We need more church planters. Ho...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode, we have Curt Demoff, lead pastor of Bridgewood church talking with us on what it's like leading a creative church in the community. Why is creativity so important in a local church? "The mission never changes, but the methods do and creativity attacks the method." We...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode, we have Thomas Finley, lead pastor at Fairhaven Assembly of God, sharing on the benefits of diversity in the local church. Should we push for diversity in our churches? Why does it matter so much? We need to have people of different backgrounds cultures, and thoughts because it pa...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode, we have Jim Westheim, Next Steps Pastor at Faith Alive Church sharing about the role executive pastoring and the principles of serving in the role with excellence. How does this role fully function? How are you supposed to carry out the lead pastors vision well? What do you as in...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode, we have Bobby Hill, worship/discipleship pastor at The Gateway Church, sharing with us his wisdom on how to build a worship ministry structure. Most of what goes into a good worship ministry happens behind the scenes. There are different systems that need to be in place in order f...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode, we have Chad Deerman, lead pastor of Faith Alive Church talking about how to cultivate culture in a local church. It isn't good enough just to "create" culture. We need to find ways to sustain and grow the culture as well. "Culture is created from the top, susta...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode, we have Brenda Maurer, Senior Pastor at Cornerstone Assembly of God, sharing with us how to make intentional change within our churches and ministries. We discuss how to get your church excited about the changes, how to deal with conflict that may/will arise, and how you as the le...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode, we have Aaron Robinson, Spiritual Life Director at The Power Company Kids Club sharing with us the importance of understanding different cultures and people groups. Not everyone from the same culture or skin color has the same likes and dislikes, dreams and visions, skills and fau...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode, we have Shannon Shaffer, worship pastor at Auburn Hills Christian Center sharing with us the personal disciplines of a worship leader. If we are called to lead others into a space of praise, awe, and worship, we should be able to find that outside of leading on a stage. We need to...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode, we have Ben Vegh, lead pastor of The Gateway Church. Our discussion today revolves around being able to evaluate where your church is at with honesty. You need to be able to look through the history of the church, the fruit of the people that attend, and answer honestly if your ch...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode, we have Richard Colon, Lead pastor at Santos Church talking about how the church has an amazing opportunity to be diverse in culture to reach the communities around us. We're not all called to look the same, speak the same way, reach the same people. We have a specific communi...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On today's episode, we have Kamron Oberlin, lead pastor of Greater Lansing First, teaches us how to move the church's vision forward with limited resources. How can we have big vision with very little resources? What do we do with that vision and how do we truly trust God to fulfill the vision? W...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On todays episode we have Tina Hudson, Youth Pastor at Carleton Assembly of God Church. Our discussion today revolves around being a great staff member. Tina has served under 5 different lead pastors at the same church and has lots of insight into what it's like watching transitions happen around her...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. On todays episode we have Travis Buerky, Lead Pastor at Hickory Ridge Community Church, back with us again talking about what it takes to build a successful worship team. How do you balance styles, egos, talents and callings within people when it comes to putting them on stage to lead your people in wors...