Throughout the past 45 years, Jim Wideman has led and guided church ministries with a clear vision of how to help leaders find solutions to seemingly impossible problems. Jim understands what priorities are important for moving the mission forward. Throughout his career, Jim has developed systems and processes to help teams make sound decisions, translate visions into action, and provide practical tools from what he’s learned through personal experience. He is a leader who has devoted his life to helping others achieve personal, spiritual, and numerical growth through consulting, training, speaking, coaching, and mentoring to churches of all sizes, denominations, and styles in America and around the world. Jim currently serves as The Executive Operations Pastor at The Belonging Co. In Nashville, Tennessee. Jim believes his greatest sermon, is his family.

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This week Ryan and David discuss how supporting and teaching things outside of biblical truth is dangerous for students, especially middle school students. Warning, this episode may not be suitable for children.

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Michaela O’Donnell is the Executive Director of the Max De Pree Center for Leadership at Fuller Seminary, where she oversees the center’s vision, strategy, program, and team, all with the goal of helping leaders like you respond faithfully to God in all seasons of your life and leadership.

In addition to her academic work, Michaela has over ten years of experience as a leader in the marketplace. Principally, as the Owner and Managing Director of Long Winter Media, a vibrant creative agency that helps brands make a social impact through multi-media content. Long Winter Media’s roster of clients includes Google, YouTube, NBC Universal, University of Southern California, Presbyterian Church (USA), Fuller Seminary, and many more. Notably, the Oprah Winfrey Network picked up a short film Long Winter produced for an episode of Oprah’s show Super Soul Sundays, with Glennon Doyle.

Michaela regularly writes and teaches on topics of vocation, change, innovation, creativity, faith/work, and gender dynamics.

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This week David and Ryan talk about how to transition well. Many people in ministry have experienced difficulty in their previous ministries, but how should we respond? How do we transition to the next ministry that God is calling us to?

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Zach Johnson is the Associate Pastor of Students and Families at Oakland Baptist Church in Disputanta, Virginia. Before serving on staff at Oakland, Zach served as a Student Revivalist for Life Action Ministries.

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JC Groves was born into a very strict, conservative Independent Fundamental Baptist family. His parents were part of a large IFB church in Indiana while his father went to an IFB bible school. In the mid 80s they moved to Chattanooga so his father could continue his studies at Tennessee Temple University. JC comes from a family of preachers. His father and grandfather Charlie Sturgill both served as IFB pastors. JC has been serving in ministry as a student pastor in Tennessee, Georgia and Utah since 2001. In 2012, he and his family moved back to Georgia to help start the Ringgold Campus of Rock Bridge Community Church where he served as Campus Pastor through September 2020. JC and his family now live in Statesboro, GA where he serves as the College & Student Pastor at Connection Church. JC is married to Kym and they have 6 kids, all 10 years old and under: Kaden, Colton, Corbin, Kenzie, Katie Mae & Karoline Jane – and a chocolate labradoodle named Bowden.

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Does anxiety get in the way of your ability to be an effective leader? Is your inability to notice when you and those around you are anxious keeping you "stuck" in chronic unhealthy patterns? Steve Cuss is a published Author of the book Managing Leadership Anxiety- Yours & Theirs and the host on the Managing Anxiety Podcast. Since 2005, Steve have served as the Lead Pastor of Discovery Christian Church in Broomfield, Colorado, an innovative and entrepreneurial church that has grown from 150 to more than 1000 in weekly attendance. The church intentionally welcomes spiritual seekers and skeptics and is passionate about partnerships that break the local and global poverty cycle. Steve has also served at a mega church in Las Vegas, on a ranch for struggling teens, and as a youth minister in the Appalachian region.

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Sara Barratt is an author, speaker, avid reader, chocolate lover, and managing editor for TheRebelution.com, a growing online platform that reaches more than half a million Christian teens, parents, and youth workers each year. She’s a frequent speaker on topics including using your teen years for Christ, biblical worldview, and godly dating and relationships. She wrote her first book Love Riot: A Teenage Call to Live with Relentless Abandon for Christ when she was eighteen and her second book Stand Up, Stand Strong: A Call to Bold Faith in a Confused Culture releases April 2022 in partnership with Summit Ministries. Her work has been featured on numerous websites including The Gospel Coalition, Crosswalk, Desiring God, Girl Defined, and Crosswalk. She’s been a guest on numerous radio shows and podcasts including The Eric Metaxas Show, Moody Radio, and WMUZ.

Her passion is challenging and encouraging her peers to live sold out and set apart for Jesus. When she’s not writing or dreaming up new book ideas, she loves spending time with family and friends, taking long walks, drinking copious amounts of tea, and scribbling down random thoughts that eventually get lost in her purse.

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Have you ever wondered if what you are doing is actually working? Have you ever felt like what you were doing does not matter? This week Ryan had the opportunity to talk with one of his students, Ethan Driggers, about these very questions. Ethan spent his entire tenure in student ministry under Ryan's leadership and now is leading a group of Jr. High Boys. You don't want to miss this episode! Not only was it encouragement for Ryan, but it will encourage anyone in youth ministry to stay strong and don't quit.

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