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By Gavin Smith
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The podcast currently has 87 episodes available.
In this podcast, Phil Swann, the Pastor at Llanelli Free Evangelical Church in West Wales, shares a little bit about his experience of buying a new church building in just three weeks! It's a wonderful story of adventurous faith and God's wonderful provision. We absolutely love having Phil on the podcast and enjoy his passion for the gospel and reaching the lost.
To find out more about the church please check out their website:
https://www.lfec.org/about/building-project
Introducing...Owen Gilham!
After working in education (and a brief stint in theatre) Owen now works for Danbury Mission as the Operations Manager. Listen in as he and Gavin talk about the diverse work that Church Managers complete on a weekly basis. They cover the importance of getting appropriate policies and procedures for your church in place as well as the challenges around adding a new Sunday service and the co-ordination of all the service teams to make that happen. It's an interesting job, we hope you enjoy the episode.
https://www.danburymission.org.uk/
How do we make best use of our buildings for the gospel? Rich Spens has spent many years working behind the scenes at Kings Cross Church in London trying to think this through and put it into action.
Listen in as he chats with Gavin about how he's managing and developing his church, including an idea to take the church roof off!
Hot off the press- Churchsuite have very kindly agreed to sponsor The Church Office podcast! We're really grateful for all the support from Gavin and the team at ChurchSuite and can't wait to work alongside them.
Listen into this special episode as Gavin Courtney joins us to talk about why the team wanted to sponsor the podcast and everything that's new at ChurchSuite.
Data protection can often feel like a minefield, especially in a church context where sensitive data is handled frequently. We recently asked our followers to submit any questions they had about data and privacy for us to pass on to the experts.
Listen in to this Church Office special as Gavin brings your questions to Harry and Leanne from the ICO.
Gavin recently had the joy of sitting down with Ashley Ellis, CEO of ACAT, the Association of Church Accountants and Treasurers.
Listen in as they discuss what ACAT has to offer and why no church accountant or treasurer should feel alone.
The ACAT Team have a wonderful heart to serve local churches and those serving in the area of church finances.
For more information please visit https://www.acat.uk.com
Would you describe your church as being an awkward size?
Listen in as Gavin and Ray talk about overcoming some of the barriers to gospel growth that are faced in our churches. Ray serves as the Leadership Consultant for the FIEC and is also the author of Ready, Steady, Grow.
In the video Gavin got the opportunity to chat to Steffan Job the General Secretary for the Evangelical Movement of Wales. It was great to find out more about all the different ways that the EMW are serving churches across Wales and beyond. You will pick up Steffan's heart straight away to serve churches with fewer members.
The EMW have a rich and wonderful history of reaching out to young people with the gospel through their summer camps and they've very kindly provided us with some of their risk assessments as document templates. You will find these at www.thechurchoffice.co.uk
In this podcast, Gavin got the chance to sit down with David Anderson from Face2Face Scotland. David is an experienced Pastor who provides mentoring, coaching and discipleship to pastors in their early years of ministry. It doesn't take long to pick up David's lovely heart and desire to care for leaders. In the video David makes reference to a short survey he would love listeners to complete.
Please follow this link to complete it:
https://www.cognitoforms.com/CoMissionChurchesTrust/MentoringAndCoachingPresentAndFuture
For more information please visit
www.facetofacescotland.org
Gavin recently got to sit down with a good friend, Steve Robinson and talk to him about his new book 'Serve'.
Serve is a really encouraging read about what it looks like to follow Jesus' example when serving the church and what it means to serve sacrificially.
Listen in as Gavin and Steve talk through serving with purpose and joy.
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