Urbangelical

The Northwest Church Planting Network doesn’t plant churches. We develop leaders who plant churches.  This episode of the Urbangelical Podcast explains why and how we do that.

Al Barth has traveled around the world helping leaders serve their cities and continents for over twenty years as City to City Global Catalyst.  The last year has kept him in the states, but it hasn’t kept him off task.  In this episode we explore his observations of the challenges and opportunities COVID brought to church leaders and shares work he’s doing with others to identify what kinds of leaders God raises up to start Gospel movements.  It’s all made him very optimistic about the Church and its mission.

David Whitehead coaches and trains leaders around the world as City to City Global Coaching Catalyst. In this episode Dave shares insights from leaders and ministries that have born fruit during the COVID-19 crises and those that have struggled. Those lessons are valuable, but his coaching approach is about more. He sees his work as helping leaders apply the Gospel to themselves first so God can do work in us, and not just through us.

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God got to your target community long before you did. He’s been working though other churches, non-prophets, public-sector agencies, other religious faiths, and individuals. Jason Davison believes it is critical that churches begin there. We should show up as servants who want to help rather than patrons with a plan.

Greg and Dolly Joines planted Christ Central Corvallis 7 years ago. Like a lot of planters, they started to wonder if it was going to work and why they signed up for it. Those questions sent Greg on a journey into his own heart and to early medieval Ireland where he discovered some monks who knew a lot about hearts and, surprisingly, Corvallis, Oregon.

Dr. Crystal Farh is an Associate Professor of Management at the University of Washington Foster School of Business. Dr. Farh’s expertise is helping organizations create space for open, productive, on-mission dialog, especially for individuals whose voices are easily dismissed or misunderstood by the prevailing institutional culture. She is a member of Trinity Church Seattle.

Welcome to Urbangelical, I'm Mike Kelly, and I have the great opportunity to talk to a longtime friend, Matt Round. He's currently planting a church in Edinburgh, Scotland called Hope City Church.