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The Columbia Metro Connection is sponsored and supported by the Columbia Metro Baptist Association and the almost 100 family churches that support the ministry of the CMBA. Hosts for this week's episode are George Bullard, the Director of Missions, Strategic Leadership Coach and Lead Missiologist at Columbia Metro Baptist Association. I'm Chris Reinolds, Certified Church Consultant & Lead Pastor a Killian Baptist Church.

Joining us this week is Cathy Lockear, Community Impact Ministry Mobilizer with the Columbia Metro Baptist Association. Cathy assists churches in the association that are seeking ways to impact their local communities through missions. This week, we look forward to discussing how Her investment into the local church over the past 20 years has given her unique insights on how to partner mission-minded churches with ministry opportunities in their local context.

SUBSCRIBE: iTunes| RSS | Stitcher | TuneIn Radio | Google Play The Columbia Metro Connection is sponsored and supported by the Columbia Metro Baptist Association and the almost 100 family churches that support the ministry of the CMBA. Hosts for this week's episode are George Bullard, the Director of Missions, Strategic Leadership Coach and Lead Missiologist at Columbia Metro Baptist Association. I'm Chris Reinolds, Certified Church Consultant & Lead Pastor a Killian Baptist Church. Joining us this week is Jamie Rogers, new Baptist Collegiate Ministry Director in Columbia, South Carolina. His work spans four colleges in and around the Columbia Metro Area, where he seeks to build relationships in order to disciple and share the hope of the gospel with the people he meets.

The Columbia Metro Connection is sponsored and supported by the Columbia Metro Baptist Association and the almost 100 family churches that support the ministry of the CMBA. This week, we have a special sponsor in Bill Roop from Upstate Digital Sign Sales.

Hosts for this week's episode are George Bullard, the Director of Missions, Strategic Leadership Coach and Lead Missiologist at Columbia Metro Baptist Association. I'm Chris Reinolds, Certified Church Consultant & Lead Pastor a Killian Baptist Church.

This week's podcast we're going to listen in as three pastors share their experience and method of gaining traction in a dying church. Starting something new is difficult in most churches, but it is especially difficult in a church that has experienced a prolonged decline. Let's listen in as Bob Morgan, Daniel Schrall, and me, Chris Reinolds, share how we started gaining traction in our individual contexts.

The Columbia Metro Connection is sponsored and supported by the Columbia Metro Baptist Association and the almost 100 family churches that support the ministry of the CMBA. This week, we have a special sponsor in Bill Roop from Upstate Digital Sign Sales.

Hosts for this week's episode are George Bullard, the Director of Missions, Strategic Leadership Coach and Lead Missiologist at Columbia Metro Baptist Association. I'm Chris Reinolds, Certified Church Consultant & Lead Pastor a Killian Baptist Church.

This week's podcast is special because we get to listen in on a panel discussion on various approaches to church planting in a metropolitan area. From the inner city to the middle of nowhere to everything in between there are multiple models on planting a church. This panel covers what they did and the one essential component for reaching any community.

The panel is made up of Ant Frederick from Midtown-Two Noth, Brian Thomas from NorthStar Christian Center, Greg Dowey from FRESH Church, and Erik Estep from Village Church.

We hope their story helps encourage you as you consider the ways God would have you to continue spreading the gospel in your context.

Welcome to the Columbia Metro Connection, a podcast where you can go to get valuable, relevant, and quality resources for you and your congregation. SUBSCRIBE: iTunes| RSS | Stitcher | TuneIn Radio | Google Play The Columbia Metro Connection is sponsored and supported by the Columbia Metro Baptist Association and the almost 100 family churches that support the ministry of the CMBA. This week, we have a special sponsor in Thrivant Financial and joining us is Raz Bradley to tell us a little about What Thrivant Fincial is doing for churches. Joining us this week is Robbie McAlister, People Groups Consultant with the South Carolina Baptist Convention and Ryan Dupree, International Minister at Columbia's First Baptist Church to talk to us a little about the importance of multi ethnic congregational expressions. Highlights: The Lord, throughout history, has created unique opportunities for his church to spread his gospel, and I think that immigration is one of those opportunities. The issue of migration is a moment in time that God is asking us the question, "What will you do with this opportunity?" Love is the means by which we engage people from different nations. By showing them love, we show them that God cares for them. When we help immigrants overcome their fears of a new area, they're more open to hearing the message of the gospel. Persistent relationship building is the means to reach people with the message of the gospel. It is our desire to see every ethnic group reached in our state. More Information: Robbie McAlister - (803) 315-2741 Ryan Dupree - [email protected]

SUBSCRIBE: iTunes| RSS | Stitcher | TuneIn Radio | Google Play The Columbia Metro Connection is sponsored and supported by the Columbia Metro Baptist Association and the almost 100 family churches that support the ministry of the CMBA. Hosts for this week's episode are George Bullard, the Director of Missions, Strategic Leadership Coach and Lead Missiologist at Columbia Metro Baptist Association and Chris Reinolds, Lead Pastor a Killian Baptist Church. Joining us this week is Brian Thomas, Pastor at NorthStar Christian Center, a church that is passionate about ordinary people doing extraordinary thing through the power of God. Highlights When we put ourselves out there the needs that people have seem to snowball and that allows us to share the love of Jesus with them. We want to hear exactly what God wants us to do, therefore we wait until we hear clearly from him. I never saw myself as a church planter, but the Lord has brought us an opportunity and we want to be a very good steward of that gift. You need to listen to the voice of God to hear what your church might be like in the future. Resources:

Email: Brian Thomas

SUBSCRIBE: iTunes| RSS | Stitcher | TuneIn Radio | Google Play The Columbia Metro Connection is sponsored and supported by the Columbia Metro Baptist Association and the almost 100 family churches that support the ministry of the CMBA. Hosts for this week's episode are George Bullard, the Director of Missions, Strategic Leadership Coach and Lead Missiologist at Columbia Metro Baptist Association and Chris Reinolds, Lead Pastor a Killian Baptist Church. This week, we have a special podcast, with George Bullard, highlighting the exciting church planting movement that's taking place here in Columbia, SC. Highlights When we had 50 members meeting for corporate worship, we were ready to start another church out of that. There is an idea that a church has to be successful before it can plant a church. But the truth is that your church needs to be significant in God's kingdom and have to be willing to surrender to God's leadership to plant a church. If you want to grow spiritually, start a new church. You'll fully understand Act 2 - that everyone has a job to do within the church. First-time guests are worth their weight in gold and you treat those guests like pearls of great value A successful church plant requires a core group of people with a Christ-centered faith. Starting churches isn't an arithmetic situation, it's a geometric one. Instead of a church using money to build that new building, they decide to use that money to build the first unit building for a new church. Resources:

Email: [email protected]

Welcome back to the Columbia Metro Connection, a podcast where you can go to get valuable, relevant, and quality resources for you and your congregation. SUBSCRIBE: iTunes| RSS | Stitcher | TuneIn Radio | Google Play The Columbia Metro Connection is sponsored and supported by the Columbia Metro Baptist Association and the almost 100 family churches that support the ministry of the CMBA. Hosts for this week's episode are George Bullard, the Director of Missions, Strategic Leadership Coach and Lead Missiologist at Columbia Metro Baptist Association and Chris Reinolds, Lead Pastor a Killian Baptist Church. Joining us this week is Ryan Dupree, international minister at First Baptist Columbia and multiethnic consultant with the South Carolina Baptist Convention. Through Ryan's ministry, local churches in and around Columbia, are learning how they can better connect with the international community whom God has placed around them. Highlights "The Church" still has some ways to go to understand that we really are a global society. The plight of the refugee is beginning to open the eyes of the local church that there is a great need for gospel saturation in our communities. The political climate has polluted the perception of the healthy aspects of immigration. 70% of the local businesses, in the Columbia Metro area, are owned by foreigners. Internationals like to talk to people and share their story and culture. By simply asking questions about them, it can open the door for a deeper conversation. Regardless of background, we all experience the same growing pains as human beings (family, marital, and child-rearing issues). Contact:

Email: [email protected]

Welcome back to the Columbia Metro Connection, a podcast where you can go to get valuable, relevant, and quality resources for you and your congregation. SUBSCRIBE: iTunes| RSS | Stitcher | TuneIn Radio | Google Play The Columbia Metro Connection is sponsored and supported by the Columbia Metro Baptist Association and the almost 100 family churches that support the ministry of the CMBA. Hosts for this week's episode are George Bullard, the Director of Missions, Strategic Leadership Coach and Lead Missiologist at Columbia Metro Baptist Association and Chris Reinolds, Lead Pastor a Killian Baptist Church. Joining us this week is Alan Cross, a missional strategist, President of Community Development Initiatives, and voice at the Evangelical Immigration Table. Alan's ministry focus is helping to connect people's orthodoxy with tangible orthopraxy, in that he seeks to help communities, churches, businesses, organizations, and individuals grow and develop in ways that facilitate human flourishing by developing creative partnerships to bring spiritual, social, and economic transformation to communities around the world. Highlights

• The context for ministry in America is heavily affected by this conflict of race, ethnicity, and who's from where; so it seems like planting the cross [of Jesus Christ] somewhere in the middle of that is a pretty good way from people to hear about Jesus.
• The big question that I had to come to grips with was how do we turn away from inside ourselves to our neighbors of different backgrounds and cultures.
• When you talk about immigrants and refugees there is a tendency to frame your view on the view of your favorite political commentator. The question is, "What does the Bible say?"
• There is a difference between the role of the church and the role of the state. As Christ-followers we must understand our role in the issue of immigration is to represent the heart of God to the state.
• The caravan immigrants are coming with the intention of claiming asylum, which is a legal way of coming to the United States.
• As Christ followers, the church should be welcoming the stranger and the sojourner.
• I'm against immigration, but once they're here, as the church, what should we do?

Resources: Twitter: @AlanLCross Email: [email protected]

Welcome back to the Columbia Metro Connection, a podcast where you can go to get valuable, relevant, and quality resources for you and your congregation. SUBSCRIBE: iTunes| RSS | Stitcher | TuneIn Radio | Google Play The Columbia Metro Connection is sponsored and supported by the Columbia Metro Baptist Association and the almost 100 family churches that support the ministry of the CMBA. Hosts for this week's episode are George Bullard, the Director of Missions, Strategic Leadership Coach and Lead Missiologist at Columbia Metro Baptist Association. JayWill Wilson, Teaching Pastor at Generation Church and I'm Chris Reinolds, Lead Pastor a Killian Baptist Church. Joining us this week is Will Plitt, Executive Director at Christ Together, a ministry that is passionate about connecting faithful leaders with passionate churches so that the whole world might come to hear the good news of the gospel message. Christ Together pursues its mission by unleashing decentralized groups of Christians unified in their pursuit of the mission of God within their circle of influence. Highlights

• What would it take for us (the church) to reach every man, woman, and child in the United States?
• We have to rethink the way we engage the culture with the gospel. Sometimes I think we've turned the living waters of the gospel into the frozen waters
• The church in North America has been largely focused on "just give me the app."
• The church isn't so much a relevancy issue as it is an accessibility issue.
• Four Powerful Questions: What does God want? What would that look like? What is the cost? How does your church measure success?
• Does our scorecard for success match up with God's?