Shifting Culture

In this episode, Alan Briggs talks about the importance of slowing down, gaining clarity in the midst of any circumstance, and finding healthy rhythms to sustain you for the long haul.

Alan Briggs is the founder of Stay Forth Designs, an organization that helps leaders get healthy and reach more impact. Alan is a mountain guide for the leadership journey. He loves outdoor adventures, but the greatest adventure of his being a father and husband. Alan is crazy about helping hungry leaders conquer overwhelm and navigate with courage. He serves leaders and organizations around the country through coaching, speaking, consulting, designing experiences, hosting mastermind groups, writing his own books and ghostwriting for others. He co-hosts Right Side up Leadership Podcast and regularly writes for Outreach and Field Notes . 

Alan's Recommendations:
Shorter: Work Better, Smarter, and Less - Here's How
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters by Priya Parker
New Power: How Anyone Can Persuade, Mobilize, and Succeed in Our Chaotic, Connected Age

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In this episode, Kevin King talks about his journey to working with internationals in the U.S., the importance of worldview, and living your faith out loud.

Kevin King is the President of International Project, an organization focused on initiating church planting movements through diaspora unreached people groups in ethnic communities and on university campuses. International Project’s focus is to mobilize and train teams of church planters who will start simple multiplying churches. Kevin’s vision is to see a movement of churches started among unreached people groups starting with diaspora communities here and spreading to least evangelized countries. You can learn more about his ministry at www.internationalproject.org

Kevin's Recommendations:
The 3D Gospel by Jayson Georges
Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes
Ephesians 4 and APEST

Joshua's Leadership Accelerator around APEST starts January 18th!

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We have a great conversation with Peyton Jones around missional engagement, church planting, and the power of focusing on Jesus and the Gospel and letting the rest happen.

Peyton Jones is the author of Church Plantology: The Art and Science of Planting Churches, Reaching The Unreached: Becoming Raiders Of The Lost Art, and Church Zero: Raising 1st Century Churches From The Ashes Of The 21st Century. He began ministry serving at a megachurch in Huntington Beach, CA before embarking to Wales, UK for 12 years. After serving as the Evangelist at Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones’s church Sandfields, and as a church planter, and network leader he founded New Breed Church Planting Network which continues to train front-line 1st century style apostolic church planters, and has trained multiple church planters across the globe. In the 25 years that Peyton has been in ministry, he has served in almost every incarnation of church, context (urban, rural, University Town, Industrial) and across multiple denominations. He is a veteran church planter, and expert in the field of missional engagement strategy. One of his passions is starting churches in public spaces. He writes regularly for Outreach, Leadership Journal, and Christianity Today. He blogs regularly at Peytonjones.ninja. He founded Church Planter Magazine, and hosted two podcasts associated with it Church Planter Podcast and Hardcore Church Planting. Both are frequently in the #1 spots or in the what’s hot category. Peyton received his MA Theology: Pastoral Studies in 2010 from W.E.S.T. in the UK and has taught both Old Testament and Church Planting at the graduate level at two different Universities. He lives in Southern California with his family. Twitter: @PeytonJonesPunk Facebook: Facebook.com/peytonjonesninja

Peyton's Recommendations:
A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals by Shane Claiborne
Simply Anglican by Winfield Bevins
The Office

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In this episode, Brian Sanders talks about missional living in the urban core, the humility it takes to come as a learner, and the incredible things that happen when you empower people to live out their purpose.

A social entrepreneur, Brian has helped to start hundreds of missional enterprises, including churches, nonprofits, and businesses all over the world. Most notably, Brian is the founder and former Executive Director of the Underground Network; an international fellowship of microchurch incubators creating city based ecosystems of faith, creativity and empowered social enterprise.

Brian's New Book:
The 6 Seasons of Calling

Brian's Recommendation:
Wanting

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In this episode, we have a conversation with Erik Fish around creating empathetic spaces of listening and understanding that lead to encounters with Jesus. Erik shares some stories of Jesus encountering others and helps make following Jesus something everybody would want to do.

Erik’s journeys among the First Nations people of North America inspired his passion for creating Jesus-centered movements outside the boundaries of conventional Christendom. In 2012, he was adopted and named as a member of the Dakota Sioux tribe.

By planting the way of Jesus within existing cultures and social groups, he has witnessed several miraculous movements that brought transformation to individuals, families, and communities.

Erik’s messages on the simplicity of Jesus’ call to create relationships like Jesus did have been featured on multiple platforms. He’s authored books and is the founding leader of the Student Church Movement, creating disciple multiplication movements on and beyond university campuses worldwide. Most of all, he loves creating friendships where history, culture, and tradition have built walls of separation.

Erik and his wife have four children. Their love for friends, travel, and Jesus take them on many adventures together.

Find Erik at erikfish.com

Erik's Recommendations
The Other Half of Church by Jim Wilder
Paul: A Biography by N.T. Wright

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In this episode Neil Cole discusses his new book Viral, the importance of hearing God's voice, what lateral leadership looks like in the church, and much more.

Neil was born in Los Angeles CA, found Jesus in University and has followed Him for 40+ years. He has catalyzed the launch and multiplication of organic churches world wide and authored 17 books.

Neil's books:
Author Page on Amazon
Viral

Find more at starlinginitiatives.com

Neil's Recommendation:
Woke Racism by John McWhorter

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We have a great conversation with Adrian Reeves around African American missions, churches from different backgrounds working together, and people coming to the table together to solve issues we are currently facing.

Adrian Reeves is a missions mobilizer and Executive Director for the National African American Missions Council, a conglomerate of missionaries, churches, and missions agencies working to increase African American involvement in the Great Commission. Additionally, he serves as the Executive Pastor for Christ Kingdom Church in Prince George’s County, Maryland where he oversees the Christian Education, Evangelism, Worship, Administration, and Family Life ministries. Having accepted the Lord Jesus Christ at the age of 12; Pastor Reeves has served the local church in various capacities: Youth Pastor, Trustee, Prison Ministry Coordinator, and Camp Director.
He majored in Sociology at the University of Maryland College Park receiving the Hillman Entrepreneurs Scholarship Award. His experience in human resources and non-profit management have allowed him to train ministry and marketplace leaders for positive cultural impact. Pastor Reeves is passionate about establishing healthy structures and strategies for organizations and institutions to thrive in an ever-changing environment. He is married to the delightful Lady Niesha Reeves and they have two wonderful children Adonis and Nyazia whom are both musically gifted. Recently he has established a new platform called “The Table of Brotherhood” to foster racial healing and create a safe space for Christians to address race issues and solutions from a Kingdom perspective. He sums up his life’s work reminding himself “Only what you do for Christ will last”.

Adrian's Recommendation:
The Innovation Crisis by Ted Esler
Listen to Episode 14 of this podcast featuring Ted Esler talking about the Innovation Crisis

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In this episode, we talk with Alex Absalom about engaging naturally in conversations, helping others encounter Jesus, and being empowered by the Spirit in our every day lives.

Alex Absalom has served alongside his wife Hannah in church leadership in a wide range of settings, from plants to megachurches, for over 25 years. Together they lead Dandelion Resourcing, which focuses on empowering Jesus-followers to go and make disciple-makers in naturally supernatural ways. Alex is an unusually practical (and funny!) teacher and coach, who brings strategic insight and much hard-won experience from the front lines. Originally from England, the Absaloms live in Long Beach CA, where they are also planting a network of missional communities, and they have 3 cheeky but charming young adult sons!

Alex's Recommendations:
No Time to Die
John Wimber
Derek Prince

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We have a conversation with J.T. Thomas about issues of justice, reconciliation, all peoples coming to the table, and how the arts can affect change in a culture.

Jonathan Tremaine Thomas was raised in the southern foothills of western North Carolina along with his brother, worship artist Jaye Thomas. As a fifth generation “preacher’s kid”, and the grandnephew of the late Civil Rights activist and music legend Dr. Nina Simone; Jonathan represents a unique blending of artistic history and divine calling. 

After earning a B.S. Communications at East Carolina University and pursuing an M.A. in Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary; Jonathan was commissioned in by Bethel World Outreach Center as a missionary to the most violent neighborhoods in Nashville, TN. While serving in these communities, he was personified as Tony in the 2006 Sony Pictures film The Second Chance. In this context, Jonathan began to employ his theatrical, film, and media production skills to equip and encourage young people through establishing a non-profit creative company. As president of Uproot Media, LLC; he worked as an actor, host, and voiceover talent appearing with prominent roles in two feature films and over 150 commercials, industrials, and radio ads. 

As a missionary and prayer mobilizer, Jonathan has spearheaded extensive evangelism, prayer, and repentance gatherings in stadiums and cities across the nation including The Call Detroit, The Ferguson Response, Azusa Now LA, Awaken The Dawn, The Tent Charleston, OneRace Stone Mountain, and CLEAN. He gained a voice nationally due to his peacemaking efforts during the 2014 civil unrest in Ferguson, Missouri. In 2018, while serving on the pastoral team at Destiny Church St.Louis, he founded Civil Righteousness, Inc. 

Today, through the Civil Righteousness movement, he directs prayer fueled evangelism, community transformation, and ethnic reconciliation initiatives in hundreds of cities across the globe. With a strong conviction to “earnestly contend for the faith”; Jonathan carries an uncompromising message of identity in Christ and eternal perspective. 

He currently resides in Ferguson, MO with his wife Mollie and their young daughter.

J.T.'s Recommendation:
The Broken Heart of America by Walter Johnson

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David Blackwell shares about the power of story to shape and influence culture, realeasing others into work with Jesus, and the impact the fruit of the Spirit has.

David is a pastor at Navah Church KC which is a part of 24-7 Prayer. He is also a self proclaimed pickle ball champion, karaoke king, and birdie beast.

David's Recommendations
Falling Upward by Richard Rohr
The Sentinel: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child

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