This interview is hugely instructive.

While many young pastors minimalize or even erase, the history of a church; Steve chose to build on the heritage of the church he pastors.

Planted by two young women on bicycles in nationwide poverty immediately following World War 2, the church had suffered a leadership crisis on a seven-year cycle until Steve recognized and broke it.

This is a rapidly growing congregation in a country where that is a rarity--yet the pastor recognizes the need to release people is more important than building big. Young, refreshing and challenging, you'll enjoy learning from Steve as he continues to learn from the Spirit. If you care about church multiplication and wrestling through problems bigger than you, this podcast will light your fire.

For more from Steve you can find him at steveuppal.com or allnations.org.uk.

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Bob Mallord joined the first Hope Chapel in its earliest days.

A natural leader, and

a bit of a rebel, he stood out as a person others were eager to follow.

However, he didn't see himself as a leader and struggled when I did. Our

friendship ran deep but he resisted the ICNU talks over and over.

Eventually, he grabbed

the reins after starting a Bible study in a very tough town, Venice,

California. But, we now faced denominational politics. Bob led a small study

that quickly mushroomed into a church, but that threatened another church that

had the backing of the denomination. After lots of twists and turns, the

denomination decided that they actually wanted two churches in the same town.

Problem was the supervisor was a bit of a legalist which Bob couldn't handle.

New leadership eventually brought Bob into the fold and

the church grew from meeting in a home to a congregation of more than 700

people.

This is a hero-making story of an individual who has more to

offer than they can conceive. It's also the story of a man who is willing to

buck authority to cling to what he believes. If you're struggling with identity

issues, you'll find strength in Bob Mallord.

Part two of the podcast takes you on a journey of adventure,

evangelism, and other important issues as Bob explores life after pastoring a

successful church. Ever his own man, he left a thriving church to meet the

needs of his family, moving from California to Mississippi. Better buckle your

seatbelt for this one...

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Bob Mallord joined the first Hope Chapel in its earliest days.

A natural leader, and a bit of a rebel, he stood out as a person others were eager to follow. However, he didn't see himself as a leader and struggled when I did. Our friendship ran deep but he resisted the ICNU talks over and over.

Eventually, he grabbed the reins after starting a Bible study in a very tough town, Venice, California. But, we now faced denominational politics. Bob led a small study that quickly mushroomed into a church, but that threatened another church that had the backing of the denomination. After lots of twists and turns, the denomination decided that they actually wanted two churches in the same town. Problem was the supervisor was a bit of a legalist which Bob couldn't handle. New leadership eventually brought Bob into the fold and the church grew from meeting in a home to a congregation of more than 700 people.

This is a hero-making story of an individual who has more to offer than they can conceive. It's also the story of a man who is willing to buck authority to cling to what he believes. If you're struggling with identity issues, you'll find strength in Bob Mallord.

Part two of the podcast takes you on a journey of adventure, evangelism, and other important issues as Bob explores life after pastoring a successful church. Ever his own man, he left a thriving church to meet the needs of his family, moving from California to Mississippi. Better buckle your seatbelt for this one...

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Neil is an apostolic catalyst for the global organic church movement. He’s the founder of Church Multiplication Associates, CMAResources and Starling Initiatives.

He’s written more than a dozen books, including Organic Church, Cultivating a Life for God, Church 3.0 and Primal Fire.

His journey in God's kingdom brought him to serve in a mega church, a local community church and now small rapidly multiplying organic churches that meet in homes, campuses and places of business across the globe.

Neil is a longtime friend. We first met when he showed up for the same microchurch seminar I was teaching for the fourth time. When I asked him why he came to the same thing in four cities he introduced me to his team. They were soaking in the ideas (relatively foreign to the church at the time) of organic relationships in microchurches within a congregation—with productive leaders moving ahead to plant autonomous churches.

Neil travels around the world sowing the seeds of God's kingdom, catalyzing the development of organic church networks and coaching leaders. He has been married for over 40 years to Dana and has three adult children and three grandsons.

If you want to know more you can email him (he gives his address in Part 2), catch him on Facebook, Twitter or YouTube. But perhaps the best way to aquaint yourself with him is his Amazon Page. 

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Neil is an apostolic catalyst for the global organic church movement. He’s the founder of Church Multiplication Associates, CMAResources and Starling Initiatives.

He’s written more than a dozen books, including Organic Church, Cultivating a Life for God, Church 3.0 and Primal Fire.

His journey in God's kingdom brought him to serve in a mega church, a local community church and now small rapidly multiplying organic churches that meet in homes, campuses and places of business across the globe.

Neil is a longtime friend. We first met when he showed up for the same microchurch seminar I was teaching for the fourth time. When I asked him why he came to the same thing in four cities he introduced me to his team. They were soaking in the ideas (relatively foreign to the church at the time) of organic relationships in microchurches within a congregation—with productive leaders moving ahead to plant autonomous churches.

Neil travels around the world sowing the seeds of God's kingdom, catalyzing the development of organic church networks and coaching leaders. He has been married for over 40 years to Dana and has three adult children and three grandsons.

If you want to know more you can email him (he gives his address in Part 2), catch him on Facebook, Twitter or YouTube. But perhaps the best way to aquaint yourself with him is his Amazon Page. 

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Beginning with a crucial decision by Mercy Road Church, Multiply Indiana was born.

With vision for the entire state, the group has multiplied 18 churches on their way to 100 by 2030. They hosted recent event, "March for a Million," anticipating a couple of hundred people gathered in Monument Circle in the center of Indianapolis. More than a thousand showed up.

The crowd represented 72 congregations from across the state. Each one committing to make disciples who can make disciples with a secondary motive to plant churches. Jon pastors a strong, sacrificial church along with his role as operations director for Multiply Indiana. The interview presents the fun, chaos and learning necessary to launch a similar network. They've moved beyond adding churches to multiplying from within.

If you are considering ways to extend the gospel, this interview will provoke some new thinking and even give you a pattern you can use as a starting place. Every community is different and each congregation has its own particular calling but Jon presents a good place for beginning and then modifying to suite your purpose.

You can learn more at northcircle.church or marchforamillion.com.

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This interview was a romp.

Peyton is my near neighbor and a great friend. We have much in common which renders this podcast a little different from the norm -- we just had fun talking. The new book, Church Plantology, is a textbook dealing with obedience to Jesus, spiritual gifts and ways to earn money if bivo is where you are going.

Trained as a nurse, Peyton has served as a staff pastor in the church pastored by D. Martin Loyd-Jones in Wales. While there he also planted a church from friends he made while working as a barista in a Starbucks. He soon learned that he could earn more and better connect to the community as a window washer. He even did a stint as a fireman. Lately, Peyton has busied himself writing curriculum for disciplemaking groups and books like the one we discuss. He planted a church in Long Beach, CA that morphed into a network and will plant soon in San Diego County.

You can catch up with Peyton at his Ministry Ninja website.

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Listen to why Danny let weeds grow around a new church campus for months before taking occupancy.

In part three of this podcast, you’ll hear Danny Bennett thanking God for the once-in-a-lifetime gift he gave us all in the midst of the tragedy we call COVID-19.

He’ll describe how a bunch of young surfers and skaters received a second church campus gifted from an older congregation. And he gets into why it made sense to remove signage, shut the doors and let weeds overgrow the yard to generate a break with the past while presenting a fresh future.

The interview winds down with me coaching Danny on the importance of creating a history/manifesto for any disciplemaking movement. You’ll also glean some how-to tips for your own work.

These links connect you to useful information from this podcast:

Discover Hope Church

Your Book as Your Business Card

You Could Write for Amazon

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This is part two. You owe yourself part one before listening to this episode.

Danny and Jenny Bennett planted Santa Cruz Hope under difficult circumstances. Sent to help a struggling church they began evangelizing people who wouldn't join that church. Intent on planting, they needed to plant without disrupting the original congregation.

They felt constricted by God to pray people into the new congregation rather than inviting anyone. God blessed in ways that will intrigue you, including an older congregation giving them a debt-free church building. They gutted the auditorium, building an indoor skate ramp which they use for church gatherings on the weekend.

This church teaches kids to skate, give each other haircuts, go for job interviews and make disciples of Jesus. If you struggle with the realities of doing church during and after COVID, this podcast promises to sow disruptive ideas in your mind...

You can catch Danny and Jenny if you CLICK HERE.

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This is the first of three podcasts featuring my good friend, Danny Bennett.

Danny and Jenny planted Hope Church in Santa Cruz a decade ago. A congregation of surfers and skaters, eventually turned a church auditorium into an indoor skate park that hosts a church gathering on Sundays.

But, that's for episode two. The interview started with their church plant in Portland, Oregon. Beginning at the onset of COVID, this congregation (led by the man who helped bring Danny to Jesus) was forced to innovate. Just over a year old, they now meet, online, in Portland, Stockholm Sweden and Huntington Beach, CA. They, along with Danny were "gifted" a debt-free church campus.

If you struggle with giving, trusting Jesus during tough times, etc., this podcast is for you. You won't want to miss the next two episodes, either. Hope Church in Santa Cruz was also gifted two church campuses. They gut the buildings, build indoor skate ramps and basketball courts to better serve the youth in the community. Those spaces double for congregational meeting space on weekends.

This series is a dream for church planters and other innovative leaders.

Catch Danny, Jenny and their team by CLICKING HERE.

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