The Leadership Community Podcast

Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.
 
In today's episode, our co-hosts Jonny & Julian answer one of our usual quick-fire questions ~ what's the most recent book you have read?
They also get the chance to talk more about how that book has impacted them, why reading is so important to them and any habits, tools or other tips they might have which can help you in your reading.
 
This is the last episode before we break throughout August 2026, but we will be back with some more great conversations in September.
In the meantime, you can catch up with some of our previous episodes.
 
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Thank you for being a part of our community. We look forward to sharing more leadership insights with you in the future!
 
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Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.
 
In this episode, you are listening to our conversation with Andy Nimmo.Alongside his wife, he runs the award-winning children's nursery, Muddy Boots. Together, they purchased a failing nursery and have grown it to now be over 8 sites across York and Leeds, and are now looking to add sites in Manchester.Andy also serves on the Senior Leadership team at Global Church in York.
This is the second of two episodes where we have been talking about entrepreneurship, and today’s conversation is all about 'The hidden spiritual challenges of entrepreneurship'.
We discuss:
How he got into business and thinking like an entrepreneur
Do entrepreneurs really need God?
Lessons he has learned from church to be applied to business
Lessons he has learned from business that can be applied to the church
 
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Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.
 
In this episode, you are listening to our conversation with Josh Cutting, Assistant Director of Gospel Entrepreneurs, an organisation focused on equipping and mentoring business leaders, innovators and social impact founders to live out the missional calling.
Check out Gospel Entrepreneurs for more details
 
This is the first of two episodes where we talk about entrepreneurship, and today’s conversation is all about 'how to lead entrepreneurs'.
We discuss:
Why should church leaders care about entrepreneurs in their congregation?
Is entrepreneurship a calling?
What does the Bible show us?
How can we disciple entrepreneurs better?
 
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Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.
 
In this episode, you are listening to our conversation with Tim Alford, Limitless National Director at Elim Pentecostal Church, UK. He has a passion to equip leaders and communicate the gospel.
 
We talked with him about how Churches can lead the next generation better:
What are we getting wrong?
Why is identity formation so important?
The biggest challenge facing young people
Releasing young people into leadership
What gives you hope for the future?
Check out Limitless
 
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Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.
 
In this episode, you are listening to our conversation with Jon-Michael Shernman on Using AI as a Tool in Church Ministry.
Jon-Michael Sherman has served in pastoral ministry, including as an Executive Pastor.
Today, he supports and equips Pastors through PastorCenter.com, an all-in-one platform built "by pastors, for pastors," designed to streamline sermon preparation, church media, and people mobilisation.
For more information, go to pastorcenter.com
This is a new topic for us on the Podcast, and probably not a conversation you have had either. Listen to discover how Jon-Michael can help us as leaders to use AI in the right way.
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Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.
 
In this episode, you are listening to our conversation with Pastor Ant Lee on becoming a church-planting church.
 
Ant Lee is the Lead Pastor of Vibe Church, a growing family of churches in High Wycombe, Bournemouth, Florence (Italy), and the Republic of Georgia.
He is committed to developing a church-planting culture and to planting 10 churches in 10 years.
He is an accredited AoG GB Minister and serves on the national and regional church planting teams, as well as being part of the European Core Team for the Crossing Waves Network, and was appointed Director of Training for Dynamic Church Planting International in 2024.
We talk about:
The framing of the vision for the Church
The audacious goal of planting 10 churches in 10 years
The setting of the culture and how to protect it
Leadership development as a part of accomplishing the vision
And so much more
Whatever the vision you have for the organisation or church you lead, this conversation will inspire and challenge you. Let us know what you think by leaving a review.
 
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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
 
Thank you for being a part of our community. We know you will love this episode. Find out more about Mark's ministry below:
Pastors Soul Care
 
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Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.
 
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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Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.
 
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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Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.
 
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
 
Thank you for being a part of our community. We look forward to sharing more leadership insights with you in the future!
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