Launch with Dave Harvey

Adam Ramsey leads Liberti Church on the Gold Coast of Australia. He's the author of Truth on Fire: Gazing at God Until Your Heart Sings. Adam is also the Network Director for Acts 29 Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. 

New to the GCC, pastors Ryan Burgess, Julian Freeman, and Jorge Rodriguez join host Marty Duren in a get-to-know-you, roundtable style.

Today's guest, Clint Clifton, founded Pillar Church in Dumfries Virginia on March 28, 2005 at Marne Corps Base Quantico. He is co-founder of the Iceland Project (2006) and the Praetorian Project (2011) and founder of New City Network with McLean Bible Church. He serves the North American Mission Board as the director of Send DC, and served for two years with Send Baltimore. He’s the author of  Church Planting Thresholds: A Gospel Centered Church Planting Guide and the host of the Church Planting Podcast.

Biblical counselor Nathan Scroggins joins host Marty Duren in a conversation about how culture affects the need for relational health in churches, as well as the steps his church is taking to ensure relational health among the staff and in the body.

Lee Lewis from Radiant Church in Austin, TX joins host Marty Duren in a conversation about pastors and their emotional health.

GCC's Leader Care Specialist, Dr. Garrett Higbee, returns to launch in a conversation with Marty Duren on what pastors should know in the continuing pandemic upheaval.

In this episode of Launch, hosts Dave Harvey and Marty Duren are joined by pastor and author Dane Ortlund.  Ortlund is the pastor of Naperville Presbyterian Church, and author of Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers (2020), Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (2014), and Defiant Grace: The Surprising Message and Mission of Jesus (2011). He's married to Stacey and they have five kids. 

Launch hosts Dave Harvey and Marty Duren are joined by François Turcotte in an enlightening conversation about the future of seminaries and biblical studies. 

François Turcotte is president and dean of SEMBEQ in Montreal, Canada, a ministry to serve French-speaking churches in Quebec. He is married to Nathalie and has 2 children: Andrea and Samuel.

Here's a preview of SEMBEQ from the 2021 Missions Conference held at Hope Oakville.

Pastor/author Alistair Begg joins Launch host Dave Harvey and guest co-host Bob Lepine in a discussion about living bravely through faith in God, based on Begg's new book, Brave by Faith: God-Sized Confidence in a Post-Christian World.

Dave Harvey, president of Great Commission Collective, joins Marty Duren in a conversation about elder-team ministry based on Dave's new book, The Plurality Principle.