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200churches Podcast: Ministry Encouragement for Pastors of Small Churches
By Jeff Keady and Jonny Craig: Pastors, Leaders, Bloggers, Podcasters, and EncouragersReligion & SpiritualityChristianityNon-Profit
200churches Podcast: Ministry Encouragement for Pastors of Small Churches episodes
- Episode 187 - WARNING - Episode Contains Encouragement Overdose for Small Church Pastors!Joe Jansen, from Elim Fellowship in Lima, NY joins us again to provide a virtual overdose of ministry encouragement for pastors of small churches! Joe shares a checklist for assessing your ministry health, and provides a ton of HOPE!49 min
- Episode 186 - Emotions In the Workplace and the Pastor's Health – a Conversation with Dr. John Pletcher.mp3While Jonny is out, Jeff talks with Dr. John Pletcher, an old friend, about his book, Emoticon-versations: Working Through Our Deepest Places. What emotions do pastors deal with, and how to handle them? A fascinating talk...46 min
- Episode 185 - Just When You Needed Encouragement - Cheerleading the Small Church Pastor!Jonny is remote in Orange City and Jeff is in the traveling 200churches Studio in NY talking with Joe Jansen, a Champion Cheerleader of small church pastors! You will be encouraged and inspired by their conversation! Joe oversees 170+ pastors all over the U.S. who are part of the Elim Fellowship of Churches. He is a master encourager and small church pastor cheerleader! Enjoy.44 min
- Episode 184 - How Vulnerability Actually Empowers Your Ministry!Pastor Mandy Smith, from University Christian Church in Cincinnati joins the guys today to talk about her book, The Vulnerable Pastor - How Human Limitations Empower Our Ministry. Ultimately, Mandy reveals that vulnerability is not something we feign or fake, but it's a true description of our reality - we are vulnerable! This very truth can and will empower our pastoral ministry.This is so good and helpful! Enjoy!55 min
- Episode 183 - Dynamic Advice On Small Church WorshipA FANTASTIC conversation to share with your worship leader and entire worship team! A conversation with Jerret Hammons filled with practical worship leading wisdom. Jarret started leading worship at age 13 with his guitar and help from the pastor's wife. You can find all the links to the resources Jarret mentions right here: http://www.200churches.com/blog/episode-183-dynamic-advice-on-small-church-worship46 min
- Episode 182 - 8 Warning Signs That Your Ministry Is About To Trump Your FamilyThis is a very practical episode on the importance of family in ministry. The imperceptibility of the slide of ministry activity into the holy space of family is a reality we must beware of! Dave Jacobs of www.smallchurchpastor.com helps us explore this, and we all share some helpful tips on keeping family first.45 min
- Episode 181 - The Vital Importance of Small Church Pastors!Michael Nations, founder of The Vital Initiative, joins the guys to once again proclaim the value and importance of small church ministry! Michael is with the Church of God Cleveland, and he travels around the U.S. encouraging pastors of smaller churches.Michael shares his own story of frustration and feelings of failure, and how he turned this around to achieve great influence in encouraging other pastors of small churches in his own denomination. He is recognized by his national denominational leaders as a pastor of value and encouragement to the Church of God!51 min
- Episode 180 - How To Think About Volunteers In Your Small ChurchZach Bauer joins the guys live in the Studio again to talk about his volunteer philosophy at his church plant - Red Door Church in Sioux Falls, SD. Zach gets honest and vulnerable as he shares from his heart in this episode! The conversation centers on the philosophy of volunteers in the smaller church - you will be challenged to think differently about your volunteers - enjoy!!36 min
- Episode 179 - A Missionary Wife/Mom: What We Experience When Visiting ChurchesWith Jonny on sabbatical, Jeff speaks to Melanie, a missionary wife and young mother about the reality of the "One Year Furlough". Vacation? Or... Uh... Something else??Some of us pastors might think that the one-year break that missionaries get, every four years, is a vacation. Melanie kindly disagrees with that notion! She speaks, from the wife and mother of young kids perspective, honestly and openly about what her and her husband's experiences have been like in churches and at "home" while on what some call the "home assignment" or "furlough".Melanie even put up with some of my bad joking! YOU as a pastor will learn better how to treat missionaries when they come to your church! I did!1 hr
- Episode 178 - Ministry With One Hand Tied Behind Your BackWhat a blast we had with Dave Jacobs from www.SmallChurchPastor.com! Dave talked with us on the topic of "Doing ministry with one hand tied behind your back." We had just too much fun on the "pre-record" with Dave. Things that will go unmentioned...Jeff and Jonny also talk about their new website upgrade! This is the first major upgrade of the 200churches.com website since January 2013... or... ever!There's even a mysterious infusion of music during the intro to the episode... you'll likely love it! :-)Enjoy this great episode with Dave Jacobs!46 min
About 200churches Podcast: Ministry Encouragement for Pastors of Small Churches
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Jeff and Jonny are pastors who want to encourage pastors of “smaller” churches. All most pastors see online are the churches that have grown into the thousands in just a few years, the ones that…
spread out around the city through multiple services and multiple campuses. The ministry leaders with the most influence are the mega church pastors with mega ministries, staffs, and dollars. Praise God for what He is doing in these large and influential churches! We benefit from their vision and influence.Jeff and Jonny know that there are hundreds of thousands, that have 200 or less in attendance. The work of these pastors and ministries can get lost in the shuffle, and they want to encourage, equip, support, inspire, and cheer on the pastors of 200churches – those churches with around 200 people, give or take a hundred or two! When they talk with guests like N.T. Wright, Scot McKnight, Dan Reiland, Carey Nieuwhof and so many more, they always turn the conversation to small church pastoral ministry.With humor, passion, conviction, and care Jeff and Jonny share methods and inspiration for the small church pastor. If you are a lay, bi-vocational, or solo pastor, the 200churches Podcast is for YOU!