Billy Shiver serves as the pastor of Connection Church in Vidalia, GA. He and his wife, Kate, have two children, Will (4) and Sara Kate (1). Billy graduated from Vidalia High School in 2006 and went on to graduate from Georgia Southern University in 2011 with a B.S. in Chemistry. While attending GSU, Billy worked with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and then, upon graduation, was hired as the Discipleship Pastor at Connection Church in Statesboro, GA. In January of 2015, God led Billy and Kate back to Billy’s hometown of Vidalia to start a Connection Church campus there. In three short years, Connection Church became one church in five locations across southeast Georgia: Statesboro, Vidalia, Millen, Dublin, and Savannah. In 2018, God led Connection to transition their model into a network of autonomous churches. In 2019, the Connection Network was launched, with the vision of planting 50 churches in the next 30 years. In 2021, the Connection Network planted their sixth church, in Athens, GA, and are looking forward to planting many more in the years to come.

Dr. M. Victor Carpenter is the Teaching Pastor of Redeemer Bible Church. He holds a Master of Divinity Degree from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Victor is passionate about making disciples of Jesus Christ through the planting of local churches. He and his wife Maria have four boys.

Dr. M. Victor Carpenter is the Teaching Pastor of Redeemer Bible Church. He holds a Master of Divinity Degree from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Victor is passionate about making disciples of Jesus Christ through the planting of local churches. He and his wife Maria have four boys.

In this episode, of the Church Planting Podcast Josh Turansky and Clint Clifton have a discussion about the ten pieces of advice for church planting.

How can a person know if God's calling them to start a new church? Colby and Clint have helped lots of people navigate that question and find clarity. On this weeks episode they discuss the dynamics of a personal calling and how a person can be assured of their calling before stepping out into a church planting venture.

Lori's background came from the corporate world, worked in security consulting for 14 years before transferring to full-time ministry. After being saved, she moved overseas where she could execute those skills in a strategic place for the Gospel. Working in a 99% Muslim context, work and faith intersected often, and by his grace, saw people in the workplace come to faith in Christ, which was her greatest joy. Unexpectedly had to return home in 2018, and began her favorite job yet as Director of Sending at the Summit Church, where she gets to again join those consulting skills alongside sending people! She oversees International missions, North American Church Planting and Local Outreach currently for the Summit. As far as downtime, life is spent with her Frenchie pup, Habibi, and decompressing through taking on complex cooking challenges!

Noah Clifton, Cody Davis and Adrian Martinez are preparing for a life of Church planting. Hear them share how planting churches with their parents as kids and growing up in the Praetorian Project impacted them and set them on a trajectory for multiplying churches.

Today we talk with Ed Litton, an Alabama pastor known for his work on racial reconciliation, is a relative unknown despite serving in several prominent SBC posts since the early 2000s. If you want more information about him click the link below.

Ed Litton

Today we are joined by Dr Eric Thomas about relating to your sending church. Dr Eric Thomas has been the pastor of First Norfolk since 2003. He is husband to Eydie and father to four daughters. He has a passion for preaching God's Word and helping those who are far from God find new life in Christ. Learn more about FBC Norfolk - https://www.firstnorfolk.org/