Dr. Rob Rayburn. Pastor Emeritus at Faith Presbyterian Church in Tacoma, Washington spoke to our Northwest church planting cohort about the critical importance and pastoral value of church history for the preacher.
Josiah pastors a perfectly ordinary church in the St. Louis suburb of Maplewood call Crossroads Presbyterian Fellowship. He and Mike talk about the pleasures, pace, and problems of ordinary ministry.
Pastor Craig Harris from Yakima sits down with Mike and two of our residents, Jonny Finlayson and Andrew Perkins. They discuss practical tips for preparing to church plant and the ins and outs of planting during a pandemic.
Mike Kelly explores the circular reality of a leader’s development by identifying the skills that mark our progress and the need to take them with us throughout our leadership journey. Two formats: >
What do leaders look like before they’re leaders? In this episode Mike Kelly shares the Northwest Networks answer to that question by introducing the ECCLESIA Leader Profile designed to help pastors and parents identify and encourage young leaders become what God has gifted them to be. Two formats:
The Northwest Church Planting Network doesn’t plant churches. We develop leaders who plant churches. This episode of the Urbangelical Podcast explains why and how we do that. Two formats:
Al Barth has traveled around the world helping leaders serve their cities and continents for over twenty years as City to City Global Catalyst. The last year has kept him in the states, but it hasn’t kept him off task. In this episode we explore his observations of the challenges and opportunities COVID brought to […]
David Whitehead coaches and trains leaders around the world as City to City Global Coaching Catalyst. In this episode Dave shares insights from leaders and ministries that have born fruit during the COVID-19 crises and those that have struggled. Those lessons are valuable, but his coaching approach is about more. He sees his work as helping leaders apply the Gospel […]
God got to your target community long before you did. He’s been working though other churches, non-prophets, public-sector agencies, other religious faiths, and individuals. Jason Davison believes it is critical that churches begin there. We should show up as servants who want to help rather than patrons with a plan.
Greg and Dolly Joines planted Christ Central Corvallis 7 years ago. Like a lot of planters, they started to wonder if it was going to work and why they signed up for it. Those questions sent Greg on a journey into his own heart and to early medieval Ireland where he discovered some monks who […]
Dr. Crystal Farh is an Associate Professor of Management at the University of Washington Foster School of Business. Dr. Farh’s expertise is helping organizations create space for open, productive, on-mission dialog, especially for individuals whose voices are easily dismissed or misunderstood by the prevailing institutional culture. She is a member of Trinity Church Seattle.
