How can youth ministries act as a 'shock absorber for the church' as we absorb and adopt to changes in culture. 

And how should our DNA be orientated? Stu Crawshaw is advocating an atonement based youth ministry. 

Soul Revival Church's Stuart Crawshaw answers everything we've wanted to know about youth ministry and the next generation...

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It's not just the word and prayer (the poetry). it's also the systems and organisation that support them  that matter (the plumbing). 

In one of our most requested topics, David Moore is operations pastor with Hunter Bible Church and Unichurch, Newcastle and joins Dominic Steele this week to talk ministry strategy, systems and hacks: reporting, protocols, communications, finances/investments, tools.

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There’s been ‘a spate’ of resignations of senior ministers where team leaders of churches have surprised many of us by resigning and switching roles to become team members or switch to chaplaincy or other roles.

The task seems like it’s getting harder. What can we do to strengthen our resilience?

There’s a Life In Ministry Conference coming up in August in Sydney dealing with the whole issue of resilience in ministry. 

We speak with two of the presenters, Dean of Students at Moore Theological College, Paul Grimmond and Organisational Pyschologist,Kirsty Bucknell.

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Lessons from seven churches, five of which were plants, with David Jones

Presbyterian Church planting enterpreneur David Jones has planted five churches and revitalised two. 

David, a former moderator of the Australian Presbyterian Church, has just retired as senior pastor of Anne Street Presbyterian in Brisbane. 

David joins Dominic Steele to share lessons learned over forty years.

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There are so many stories of the whole church's ministry going pear shaped by poor staffing decisions, unrealistic expectations and poor leadership.

There's probably more anguish from senior and assistant ministers in this area than basically any other. 

And there's an unspoken unrealistic expectation within the church that their paid leadership should be able to work out this area perfectly. 

And the collateral damage when there are divisions in the staff team is massive. 

The Senior Minister of Sydney's Toongabbie Anglican Church, Raj Gupta, serves as a consultant for the Centre for Ministry Development at Moore Theological College. 

Raj will help us on how to recruit, engage, develop, recognise and track staff.

Look back at previous episodes:

Ministry Teams 'Rosters are contrary to the gospel' with Rhett Harris, 

'The Leadership Pipeline' with Raj Gupta

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Archbishop Laurent Mbanda joins us to share his wonderful story from being a barefoot refuge in the East African nation of Rwanda to a Burundi refugee camp, where he and his parents were saved. 

A long walk to Kenya followed, then he was miraculously accepted into university, after weeks sleeping on the streets.

After university, he was a staff worker for Campus Crusade for Christ, before doing a masters and doctorate in the United States, and eventually lead the Compassion International Aid work following the 1994 Rwandan massacre.

Then there’s amazing work leading the church in Rwanda, explosive growth, with thousands saved, to now starting an East African Christian University.

Archbishop Mbanda is deputy chair of significant movement within Anglicanism, GAFCON, and in 2020 will host the Anglican Bishops conference in the Rwandan capital Kigali. 

Check out Laurent Mbanda's biography on Amazon. 

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How does mentoring work for senior leaders? And can how having a mentor help, especially through those seasons in ministry when everything goes pear shaped.

How can ministers be cared for spiritually, emotionally, relationally and theologically.  And what can be done to help a minister who is having a spiritual crisis? 

Presbyterians David and Kathy Thurston have planted two churches, and mentored over 80 young ministers, and now work full time supporting younger ministers through http://church2church.org.au

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National Director of The Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students, Richard Chin, reflects on God’s ‘severe mercy.’  How he learned from God, as he supported his wife Bronwyn, through her death from pancreatic cancer, six years ago.

Richard shares theological, strategic, pragmatic lessons from 25 years of ministry, advice on dating at 50 and a new marriage to Jeanette.  

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Minister of St Stephen’s Christchurch Jay Behan tells the heartbreaking story of leading his church away from the traditional Anglican Church in New Zealand and working to form a new Diocese for faithful Anglicans. 

Jay Behan tells of his tearful resignation from the New Zealand Anglican Church’s General Synod, just hours after the Synod voted to abandon the teaching of Jesus on sexuality. 

He recounts the months of anguish leading up to his and other New Zealand churches decisions to leave the now apostate church and of the support of Gafcon and Australians in forming a new diocese in NZ.

Check out the interview with new GAFCON Chair Foley Beach and General Secretary Ben Kwashi last week on The Pastor's Heart.

UPDATE 17.11.2019: Rev Jay Behan has been elected first bishop of the 'Church of Confessing Anglicans Aotearoa/New Zealand' by the inaugural synod of the church.

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A special edition featuring GAFCON’s new leaders Archbishops Foley Beach and Benjamin Kwashi.

The most significant movement within the Anglican Church globally is GAFCON, representing 50 million of the world’s 70 million Anglicans.

GAFCON aims to remain faithful to Jesus and the scriptures, and not follow the cultural winds.

The GAFCON Primates Council resolved last week in Sydney to hold a global conference of bishops just six weeks before the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lambeth Conference.  Read the communique HERE.

The new GAFCON Bishops conference will serve Bishops who won’t participate in Lambeth because of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s decision to invite Provinces which have formally abandoned the teaching of Jesus in the area of sexuality.

The new leaders of GAFCON, Primate’s Council Chair, Archbishop Foley Beach (of the Anglican Church in North America) and General Secretary Benjamin Kwashi (of Jos, Nigeria) sat down with Dominic Steele to talk about their heart as pastors and the future of GAFCON and the Anglican Church. 

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