Pivot Podcast

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Pivot Podcast episodes

April 11, 2023 Episode 39: How the Inherited and Innovative Church Work Together with Jorge Acevedo
It's time to Pivot! In episode six of season four, our hosts Terri Elton and Dwight Zscheile welcome this weeks special guest, author and pastor, Jorge Acevedo.
In todays episode, we explore a few questions around Jorge and his work.
How do inherited/traditional and Fresh Expressions work together?
Why do you care about Fresh Expressions and mixed ecology?
What are some things you want to share with pastors/judicatory executives and other leaders in inherited church about authorizing and supporting Fresh Expressions and cultivating a mixed ecology?
Jorge Acevedo is the Lead Pastor at Grace Church, a multi-site, United Methodist congregation in Southwest Florida with three campuses (Cape Coral, Fort Myers Shores, Fort Myers Central). Grace Church is recognized as having one of the largest and most effective recovery ministries in America.
Jorge co-authored Sent: Giving the Gift of Hope at Christmas. He also authored Vital: Churches Changing Communities and the World and co-authored The Heart of Youth Ministry. He has also written for the United Methodist Publishing House, Circuit Rider magazine, Good News magazine and Our Faith Today.
41 min
April 05, 2023 Episode 38: Practicing Fresh Expressions with Jonny Baker
Special Guest: Jonny Baker
40 min
March 29, 2023 Episode 37: The Mixed Ecology in Christian History with Jennie Wojciechowksi
Special Guest: Jennie Wojciechowksi.
33 min
March 21, 2023 Episode 36: The Mixed Ecology in the US with Michael Beck
Special Guest: Michael Beck.
34 min
March 14, 2023 Episode 35: Where Did Fresh Expressions Come From? Learning from the UK with Michael Moynagh
Special Guest: Michael Moynagh.
52 min
March 07, 2023 Episode 34: Introducing the Mixed Ecology and Why It Matters
Season 4 of the Pivot podcast provides lessons and stories from church leaders who are igniting imagination, creating collaborations, launching experiments, and dreaming of new possibilities for God’s church. It focuses on two questions: How might we use the uncertainty and disruption of this time to reimagine church, ministry, and leadership? And how might the Christian faith be a resource for making spiritual sense of current realities and leaning into the future that is emerging?
27 min
April 05, 2022Episode 33: What difference does Faithful Innovation make?
Links:
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38 min
March 30, 2022 Episode 32: Iterating and Integrating Faithful Innovation
Special Guest: Dee Stokes.
38 min
March 22, 2022 Episode 30: Telling Stories
Special Guest: Alexus Rhone.
40 min
March 15, 2022 Episode 31: Reflecting on Learning
Special Guest: Brandy Gerjets.
38 min

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Over the past few years, church leaders have been forced to respond to several global crises in the blink of an eye. In a moment with little information and lots of uncertainty, churches reinvented nearly every aspect of church.