Many North Carolina Baptists are heading down to New Orleans next week for the 2023 SBC annual meeting. Whether you’re attending this year’s meeting or if you’re not, N.C. Baptists’ Executive Director-Treasurer Todd Unzicker, shares ten things that every N.C. Baptists should know about SBC23 in under ten minutes.

Test scores, favorite teams, social life and location often determine a student’s plans after graduation — but is there a better way to discern if, when and where you should go to college?

On this week’s podcast, listen to a breakout session recording from the 2022 N.C. Baptist Annual Meeting, led by Scott Pace with The College at Southeastern and David Horton with Fruitland Baptist Bible College.

Learn how families should think about college education, how to choose the right school for them, and how their faith can be strengthened and leveraged while they’re in college.

What are you doing this summer? College students across North Carolina are being mobilized to reach their neighbors and the nations with the gospel. 

On this week’s episode of the N.C. Baptists podcast, Brandon Powell, student mobilization coordinator with Baptists on Mission, catches up with two college students that have accepted the call to serve on mission during their summer break. Listen to how God has led Jordan Gibbs, a student at The College at Southeastern, and Sheridan Rice, a student at UNC Pembroke, to this decision. 

As a pastor, it’s easy to lose your joy and effectiveness in ministry. Pastoral wellness is vital when it comes to a church's health. 

In this episode of the N.C. Baptists’ Podcast, Sandy Marks — church revitalization and pastoral ministry strategist for N.C. Baptists — offers necessities to maintaining or recapturing joy and effectiveness as we live out our calling. Here is a sneak peak: This lifelong journey begins with becoming a spiritually and emotionally healthy disciple.

Engaging communities with the gospel is one of the most pressing issues facing the church today. 

On this week’s episode of the N.C. Baptists’ podcast, listen to a breakout session recording from last year’s annual meeting as two North Carolina Baptist pastors share how their churches are engaging their communities for the sake of the gospel. Pastor Aaron Smith of Kenansville Baptist Church, Pastor Todd Brady of The River Community Church in Fayetteville and Great Commission Catalyst Barry Murry share helpful methods, tools and resources to meet the needs of hurting people while effectively sharing the love and message of Christ.

Church planting is often a demanding journey for those getting started. With all the unexpected trials one faces while planting, it can be vital for church planters to learn from those who have gone before and hear what worked — and what didn’t work — for them.

This week on the N.C. Baptists’ Podcast, join church planters Mike Pittman, Antoine Lassiter and Barry Murry as they each share three things they would have done differently had they started the church planting process over again. 

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When David Herman, pastor of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Creedmoor, signed up with hundreds of other churches for “Fill the Tank” Sunday in Sept. 2021, he had no idea he would end up baptizing 12 individuals — including his own father-in-law.

On this episode of the N.C. Baptists’ Podcast, Herman sat down with Todd Unzicker, executive director-treasurer for N.C. Baptists, to share his testimony of God’s work through “Fill the Tank” and explore the reasons Pleasant Grove signed up again for the upcoming “Fill the Tank” Sunday.

This year, “Fill the Tank” Sunday will take place on April 16, the weekend after Easter. Churches can learn more and sign up at fillthetanknc.org.

On this episode of the N.C. Baptists podcast, a group of women who are living out the gospel in their everyday lives discuss God’s calling to live on mission together and what that looks like to practically live out the gospel. 

Ashley Reffit, N.C. Baptists’ consultant for Women’s Discipleship, sits down with Missie Branch with Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and Shirnetta Harrell with The No Woman No Girl Initiative. 

For more episodes, visit ncbaptist.org/podcast. You can also find us on Apple Podcasts.

Discipling the next generation of disciple-makers is crucial to the Great Commission. In this episode of the N.C. Baptists podcast, listen to a breakout session recording of Shaq Hardy as he shares how you can create a discipleship system in your student ministry. Shaq serves high school students at Biltmore Church in Asheville, North Carolina and is a guest speaker at one of Be.Do.Tell.’s Summer Youth Weeks at Fort Caswell this Summer.

At the 2022 Disciple-Making Conference, Hardy shared how student ministry pastors and leaders can look for opportunities within their churches  that the student ministry can join in on, how to establish a mission statement for the student ministry, how ministry leaders can assess where their students are and the importance of gaining investment from parents, leaders and students. 

On this episode of the N.C. Baptist podcast, Robby Gallaty and Brian Upshaw offer listeners a preview of the Disciple-Making Conference as they discuss Gallaty’s journey in disciple-making, his vision for churches, certain myths that churches hold when trying to create a culture of discipleship, and much more.

Learn more and register for the Feb. 20, 2023 Disciple-Making Conference at disciplemakingconference.org.