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Today, we have Larry Clair, executive pastor at Freedom Christian, talking with us on the role of an executive pastor and the importance of administration in the church. "It's filling the gap between vision and reality." The goal is to fulfill the goal of the lead pastor while leading from the second chair. It's not about the accolades or the recognition, it's about making their vision come to life. Not everyone is created to fit in this role and we're grateful for pastor Larry to share his experience in the role and what a great executive pastor should look like.

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Today, we have special guest, Jaime Hlavin talking about what it's like being the spouse of a minister. Ministry is more than a job, it's a calling. So how do we balance the call of ministry and keeping/building a healthy marriage? Ministry will always impact your marriage on some level. Pastor Aaron and Jaime share some fun stories as well as the lessons they've had to learn along the way. This would be an AMAZING episode to listen together as a couple or for those in ministry living a single life and are looking for a future spouse.

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Today, we have a part 2 from our speaker from Refresh, Greg Surratt. The discussion today is all about the greatest opportunities we have as the church and envisioning the future of the church! What does the future hold for the church? What can we do to move to that next level in our ministries? Who do we have around us that need to be called up to that next level? These are a few of the discussion points from todays podcast.

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Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry.

Today, we have our speaker from Refresh, Greg Surratt. Pastor Greg is the founding pastor at Seacoast church and is the president and co-founder of the Association of Related Churches (ARC), which is a global church-planting initiative that has established over 800 churches worldwide.

Pastors Aaron and Greg continued the discussion from the Refresh Conference this past week talking about personal and mental health as a pastor. If you're a pastor who is dealing with, or on the verge of burnout or struggling mentally, you NEED to listen to this episode. It's so important that we are mentally, physically, and spiritually healthy, but that's not always the case for some of us. We need safe people to talk with and a community lifting us when we're weary.

If you need a safe professional to speak with, please check out our Safe Zone Counselor list at www.mmn.ag/print-resources

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Today, we have Lori O'Dea, lead pastor at New Life Assembly, talking with us about women in leadership! Lori leads our Network of Women Ministers which exists to mobilize women to fulfill their ministerial call. We get to talk about the exciting things that are happening in ministry when it comes to more women taking leadership positions in ministry. Lori shares the struggles and difficulties as well as the strengths that majority of women face in ministry. We absolutely love that more women are taking lead roes in ministry and are so thankful for people like Lori to help guide the next generation of women ministers.

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Today, we have Devin Gough, senior pastor at Revival Tabernacle, sharing the struggles and the successes of urban ministry. We all know there's a big difference in how we do ministry in the urban, suburban, and rural parts of Michigan. We can't just be copy paste churches and expect things to work for these different communities. We have SO much to learn from each other and we pray you get a lot out of the wisdom of pastor Devin just as we have. Pastor Devin shares his wins, hopes, and struggles when it comes to pastoring in his community.

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Happy New Year! God did SO much through our churches and you pastors and leaders this last year and we're SO thankful to be a part of a network along side you amazing pastors and leaders. This episode of the podcast starts season 2! We have Pastor Aaron Hlavin sharing on how to close a year of ministry and start a new one. January can have some really high highs and low lows. This new year is a chance for us to take a look back at what worked and dream for what God has this next year. This is a chance to cast new vision as a church and get our people to see what God has for us. We're praying for you all this new year!

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Merry Christmas! This is the last episode of the podcast for this year! We're coming to you with a quick Christmas blessing from Pastor Aaron Hlavin, Pastor Bradley T. Trask, and Pastor Brooks McElhenny. We are so grateful you have spent this year with us learning from some of the greatest pastors in the nation and we're praying God has given you some wisdom and insight throughout the year. We pray blessings and miracles over your families, churches, and God-given dreams this season!

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Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry.We have only 2 more episodes for the year! This has been an amazing year of learning from our amazing pastors and leaders in our network. We appreciate all the wisdom and teachings that have come from this podcast. Today, we have a special episode featuring Jaime Hlavin and Pastor Aaron Hlavin talking about how they celebrate Christmas as a ministry. Christmas has a lot of different meanings to a lot of different people. It isn't always the happiest time of the year for everyone. The teaching and conversation today is to talk through those different feelings people may have at this time of year.

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On today's episode. we have Henrik Lidman, pastor of Prayer & Praise Assembly talking with us about how to love people with excellence in a small church. We can't always look at the larger churches and say "if it works for them, it must work for us." God has a specific plan for each individual church that is going to look different and honestly needs to be different. Smaller communities and churches have so many different opportunities that the larger churches can't achieve. Pastor Henrik walks us through what a smaller sized church can accomplish and how to impact your community for the Kingdom.

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