Rev. Chris Breslin is the proud husband to Rachel, dad and jungle gym to Noa June (2011) & Titus Eliot (2013), and Emett Ruth (2015). He pastors Oak Church which was planted in the Lakewood neighborhood of Durham, NC in fall 2014 “for the display of the Lord’s beauty.” A native Floridian, Chris moved to […]

Dustin Bagby has pastored at The Evergreen Community in Portland, OR for almost 10 years. He’s married to Kelli and has two boys, Gram and Owen. He’s a Cubs fan, an avid home brewer, and a voracious reader.

Originally from Australia, Mandy Smith is lead pastor of University Christian Church, a campus and neighborhood congregation with its own fair-trade café in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is a contributing editor for Leadership Journal and the author of Making a Mess and Meeting God. Her latest book is The Vulnerable Pastor: How Human Limitations Empower Our […]

Matthew serves as the pastor for the East Side Parish of The District Church, which meets in the H St Corridor community. Before joining The District Church, Matthew served as a Mission Pastor with Living Hope Church in Memphis, TN a missionary with the Faith Alive Foundation in Jos, Nigeria engaged in the fight against […]

This month, we are joined by the co-pastors of a new church to the Ecclesia Network: Church at the Well of Burlington, VT. Adam Avery Adam is a graduate of Portland Bible College and Trinity College of the Bible. In August of 2008, Adam and his family packed up their belongings, along with his 12 […]

Tom Ward, Sr. has forty years of ministry experience and has been serving as president of Partners In Ministry Inc. for twenty-five years. He is also senior pastor of Eastpoint Community Church of Newark, Delaware. While pursuing a degree in marketing at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan Tom felt the call of God on his […]

Noah Stepro is the Lead Pastor at Kairos. He grew up in the Antelope Valley and graduated with a Masters Degree from Fuller Theological Seminary in 2008. The thing that gives him the greatest joy in serving Jesus is walking with others through the dark midnight of the soul into the dawn of God’s Kingdom […]

River Valley has walked alongside the Ecclesia Network for a few years, and they joined this past year. Rick Callahan joins us this month to tell the story of River Valley. About Rick I’m a pretty simple guy who is just in awe of Jesus; His mercy and grace never cease to astound me. My […]

The Ecclesia Leadership Podcast returns for a new season with a new co-host, and new guests. This month, we are joined by Worth Wheeler, from Boise Mustard Seed. Worth is originally from Arizona but has spent the last decade in Boise, Idaho. He and his wife Beth have been married for fifteen years and they […]

In this episode John and Todd chat with Mia Chang.  Mia Chang is a church planter and lead pastor of NextGen Church in Princeton Junction, New Jersey. She is excited about NextGen’s growing ministries in the local and global communities. Rev. Chang has received her M. Div. from the Alliance Theological Seminary in New York City and […]