On today’s episode of the show, we welcome our friend Tom Bump.

Tom is the founder of Restoring Leaders. 

He is also the author of the new book Valleys over Mountains - a book you should have in your personal library. Its a book about overcoming the valleys in ministry and how to get through the hard seasons. 

And we always say if you haven’t gone through a tough season or bumps along the way in ministry, you just haven’t been in it long enough. They will come.

Today, Tom is going to talk through how to prevent burnout in ministry.

You may be in a season after this pandemic where you are weary. You are worn down and you are in a fog. You could be coming out of that or you could still be in it. So we are going to talk about some real practical ways to prevent frying out completely.

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On today’s episode of the show, we welcome William Vanderbloemen. 

William has been able to combine over 15 years of ministry experience as a Senior Pastor with the best practices of Executive Search to provide churches with a unique offering: a deep understanding of local church work with the very best knowledge and practices of professional executive search.

Prior to his founding The Vanderbloemen Search Group, William studied executive search under a mentor with over 25 years of executive search at the highest level. His learning taught him the very best corporate practices, including the search strategies used by one of the largest and most reputable search firms in the world.

He is the author of "Search: The Pastoral Search Committee Handbook," "Culture Wins: The Roadmap to an Irresistible Workplace" and "NEXT: Pastoral Succession that Works."

You’re really in for a treat today.

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On today’s episode of the show, we welcome Nic McElveen.

Nic is the Product Owner of Video and SFX at Soundstripe.

We talked to Nic about how to create video and other media projects using stock video, music and sound effects.

Nic has a background in ministry and is really able to speak to how to use stock elements and it can help you make Sunday Happen.

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Happy New Year! Welcome to 2022! We made it!!

On this week’s episode of the show, we welcome a good friend, John Shelton.

John served on staff with our host, Carl, at Newspring Church where they had a lot of fun together.

They have both since moved on to new adventures. Carl started 12:30 Media in 2015 and John left to serve as a Chaplain and as a minister to pastors - a shepherd to shepherds. 

John and his wife Linda founded More 3:20 recently - a non-profit ministry that serves ministry leaders with free counseling and support.

Note from Carl:

"John has been a great counsel to me and my family - you’re going to hear me get a little vulnerable in this episode with some ministry struggles that I’ve had in my past and John and I walk through experiences we both have had and how to deal with them and still survive in our faith and in the ability to serve others.

I hope our openness and honesty will be an encouragement to you if you might be struggling with some of the same things John and I have seen in ministry."

Welcome to the show. We hope you are having a very Merry Christmas.

Another light episode this week - a family episode as we welcome a small group of team members from our 12:30 team.

We’re going to chat about what we have seen in the Church this past year, some trends we think might continue into next year and more.

This is just a few of the members of our incredible team at 12:30. We are building something really special and we love to do ministry with these incredible people.

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Welcome to the show. 

Lighter episode this week as we head into Christmas.

You might be catching this episode as you are driving to or from a visit with your family, so we hope you survived or hope you can make it out alive this week.

Our host Carl was recently a guest on the Black Bar Podcast where he got to talk to Zach, Caleb and Nick from the Blackbar team all about Creating Media in a Crunch. You’ll hear a little of his story as well as the crew dive into conversation about deadlines and some ideas on how to work ahead and how to create stuff when you’re just plain out of time.

In today’s episode of the show, we welcome a veteran in Worship Ministry.

Dennis Worley from Brentwood Baptist will be joining us for a conversation.

Dennis has been on staff at Brentwood nearly 30 years and has mentored dozens of young Worship Leaders.

He is a powerhouse in the industry. You are in for a treat today.

We’ll be talking through Worship Leading over the years and also hit heavily on what Worship Leaders should say between songs when they are leading worship.

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On this episode of our podcast, we'll be sharing interviews that we conducted at the South Carolina Baptist Convention’s Onward Worship Leader Conference.

We got to spend some time with Worship Leader and Songwriter Justin Tweito as well as Megan Holifield who is on staff at North Greenville University - she works in the Worship Ministry department at NGU and has a good pulse on where worship is, what Worship Leaders are learning and where we are going. 

Great insight from both of these guests today.

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This episode of the show is brought to you by the Lee Strobel Center for Evangelism and Apologetics.

And Lee Strobel is our guest today.

Lee Strobel is an Athiest turned Christian. He is the former award winning legal editor of the Chicago Tribune. He has written more than 40 books and sold over 14 million copies of those books.

After investigating the evidence for Jesus for nearly two years, Lee became a Christian in 1981.

We dive deep into his latest book The Case for Heaven and also talk about evangelism and the local church.

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We’re back in the studio this week after doing some shows on location at SALT21. 

This week, we have a really awesome guest. Rob Mortensen will be joining us.

Rob is the Production Pastor at Irvine South Campus of Saddleback Church. We talked with Dennis Choy from Saddleback a couple weeks ago, so we are getting the Saddleback treatment here on the podcast.

Rob is a great guy. We talked with him about how they train and pastor their volunteer teams, how they execute Sunday, how they craft their Worship Experiences and more.

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