The Leadership Community Podcast

Mark Ryan: Church Growth: Breaking Numerical Barriers

Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.
 
In this episode, you are listening to our conversation with Mark Ryan where we talk about church growth and breaking numerical barriers.
 
Mark is an experienced church leader and Bible teacher with a passion to make Scripture accessible and life-giving for everyone. He has pioneered church plants and led growing churches in Bicester, Letchworth, Birmingham and London, developing strong leadership teams in each setting.
Through Insight Ministries, Mark now serves pastors and church leaders by offering encouragement, leadership development and practical insight for ministry.
He is the author of The Pastor’s Soul Care, written especially for local church leaders.
Mark often expresses his ministry philosophy with a simple phrase: “My ministry is to serve your ministry.” 
 
Our conversation is focused on church growth, and we talked about:
Has church growth become a 'dirty word'?
Unpacking some of the church growth myths
Breaking the 100-150 barrier
The cost of becoming an 'equipper' and not just a 'minister'
Also, wisdom on small groups, discipleship and leadership pipelines
 
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Pastors Soul Care
 
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Stewart Elman: Growing Young Leaders

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In this episode, you are listening to our conversation with Stewart Elman about growing young leaders.
Stewart serves as the National Youth Director for Assemblies of God, UK, overseeing Youth Alive. The vision of Youth Alive is to see 'dynamic youth ministries all across Great Britain in every AoG church'. Stewart also oversees the youth leadership programme 'Young Lions', a 3-year curriculum to help them develop their leadership.
Our conversation included the following:
The sense of calling he had to raise young leaders
Why is this so important
The biggest changes in young people respond to authority, trust and discipleship
Where st start when raising young leaders
And much more
You can find out more about Youth Alive and Stewart here:
Youth Alive
Stewart Elman
 
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Gareth Morgan: Re-Thinking the Church

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In this episode, you are listening to our conversation with Gareth Morgan.
Gareth is a leadership and elite performance coach, a Church leader, and author of 'The Winning Conversation' and 'The Winning Motivation. He helps to build individuals, teams and organisations to maximise their impact.
In our conversation, we talked with him about 'rethinking the church'. It’s a fascinating conversation as we unpack the question he and his team began to ask back in 2011 - is this the best way to achieve the results for what the church is here for?
 
Our conversation included the following:
Gareth's leadership journey
Answering the question highlighted above
Unpacking the idea of a 'phygital' vision
Why rethinking the church is important
 
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Dave Belfield: Leadership vs Ministry

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In this episode, you are listening to our conversation with Dave Belfield, as he returns as a guest on the Podcast.
He was the Pastor of Today's Community Church in Wigan, UK, for 25 years before passing the leadership to his Son-in-Law, Ben, and this was the focus of our previous episode.
 
Today, we are talking about leadership vs ministry ~ the one question Dave felt wasn't getting the attention it deserved.
 
Dave is passionate about helping leaders understand that they must build on more than just their ministry gift and that they can lead well in their particular context.
Our conversation included the following:
Defining both leadership and ministry
Talking about the distinction between them
Unpacking why we may default more to one than the other
And much more
 
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Tim Farron: Faith and Politics

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In this episode, you are listening to our conversation with Tim Farron MP.
Tim is the former leader of the Liberal Democrats and has been MP for West Moreland and Lonsdale for more than 20 years.
 
This is a shorter conversation than usual, but we managed to cover a lot of ground, chatting with Tim about faith & politics, especially how his faith has shaped him, the practices he has in place to guard his heart and how churches can engage meaningfully in the world of politics.
 
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Archie Coates: Calling into Ministry and Leading HTB Church

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In this episode, you are listening to our conversation with Archie Coates.
Archie is the Vicar of Holy Trinity Brompton. Before entering ministry, he worked in sales and later served as HTB's Associate Vicar for several years.
 
In 2009, he and a pioneering team moved to Brighton to revitalise St Peter's Church, transforming it from a struggling church into a flourishing church that planted numerous other churches across the region.
 
Archie now leads the HTB network, which consists of over 180 churches, and is married to Sam Coates, with whom he has four children.
 
We talked with him about his calling into ministry, leading the HTB network, and 
When did he sense a call into ministry
Serving with Nicky Gumbel
The experience of planting in Brighton
What is it really like to lead at HTB, and what a week looks like for him
 
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Hannah Williamson: Developing Leadership within Young People

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In this episode, you are listening to our conversation with Hannah Williamson.
For nearly two decades, Hannah has served in the local church in various roles, including as a youth pastor and then as executive pastor.
 
Hannah has a particular heart for seeing young leaders developed and equipped to live out their influence in both the world around them and the local church.
 
Hannah lives in East London and is the Young Lions lead for Assemblies of God GB.
 
For the last 18 months, she has also been on the journey of planting Echo Church, and you can find out more about this at Echo Church
 
We talked about developing leadership within young people: 
How do you spot potential
What's the most effective way to develop young leaders
How can church leaders be better at this
Why do we struggle to empower younger leaders
 
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Jo Read: Leading a Multi-site Church

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In this episode, you are listening to our conversation with Pastor Jo Read.
She is the Senior Pastor of Generations Church in Louth, Lincolnshire, a vibrant community known for its heart for worship and intergenerational ministry.
 
Beyond her local leadership, Jo plays a pivotal role in the national landscape as a Zone Leader for the Assemblies of God (AOG) GB, where she oversees and supports church leaders across Central East England.
 
Whether she is leading worship, hosting the Empower Worship Conference, or casting vision for regional growth, Jo brings a wealth of wisdom on what it means to lead with longevity and purpose.
 
We talked about:
Leading a multi-site church
Becoming a Church-planting Church
What planting a Church looks like for them
The biggest surprise in the multisite journey
Identifying, training and releasing new leaders
We know this conversation will help you in your context, whether or not you are considering planting another Church location.
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Joel Bagnall: Leaders & Vulnerability

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In this episode, you are listening to our conversation with Joel Bagnall, who is back on the Podcast.
Joel is an Australian living in Denmark with his wife and family. He has a heart to serve local churches in next-generation ministry and is currently the Youth Pastor at KBH Frikirke in Copenhagen, and he also leads Acts Generations, Denmark.
At the end of his previous conversation, his answer to the one big question that needed more attention was leaders and vulnerability, so it was great to invite him back to help us talk about it and give it some attention.
Joel is honest, open and vulnerable in his answers.
We talked about:
How much of his burnout was due to a lack of vulnerability
How admitting I am weak is failing as a leader
His definition of vulnerability
How being more vulnerable impacts his leadership and the team he leads
How to have awkward confrontational conversations with those you lead
Not pitting confidence and vulnerability agaonst each other
 
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James Shepherd: Establishing a Fresh Vision

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In today's episode, we talk to James Shepherd, Lead Pastor of City Church in Newcastle, UK.
The transition story of City Church was part of a previous Podcast episode with Ian Galloway, and we continue this with James, as he shares part of his experience of that transition journey.
We talked about:
His journey into the senior leadership role
Vision formation & the process before presenting it to the Church
How to honour the past while looking to the future
Prioritising the right things at the right time
What he is excited about at the moment for the Church
Check out City Church here
 
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