The Leadership Community Podcast

Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.
 
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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Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.
 
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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Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.
 
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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Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.
 
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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Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.
 
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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Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.
 
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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Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.
 
In today's episode, we talk to Chris Denham, Pastor of C3 Life in Leeds, UK.
We get Chris talking about his 30 years of leadership, from starting as a University Ministry Leader to the role he now has as the Senior Pastor of C3 Life.
These conversations are always full of lived-out wisdom, helpful for any leader in whatever context we might find ourselves in.
 
We talked about:
How he has changed as a leader over the past 30 years
What he would tell his younger self
How the Law of the Lid is still impacting him today
Navigating leadership challenges
Leading a multi-site Church
Check out C3 Life here
Follow Chris here
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Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.
 
In today's episode, we talk to Phil Knox, Evangelism and Missiology Senior Specialist at The Evangelical Alliance.
We talk with Phil about each of the Missional Trends for 2026, which are drawn from the latest research, listening to EA members and observing the missional landscape.
You can read the report here https://www.eauk.org/what-we-do/initiatives/missional-trends-2026
We talk through each trend, allowing Phil to share stories and help us as leaders in our own context know how to make the most of the moment we find ourselves in.
Check out the Trends below:
Look out for the spiritually open: 2026 will be the most spiritually open year in living memory. 
Look out for the unexplained: 2026 will see spiritual experiences, dreams and unexplained events drawing thousands to church. 
Look out for the gospel opportunities: 2026 will see the church needing to better join the dots between compassion ministry and faith sharing.
Look out for booming Bible engagement: 2026 will see Bible sales continue to soar, with seekers turning up to church having done their theological research. 
Look out for discipleship questions and challenges: 2026 will see more people come to faith through new pathways, so good answers about what’s next in their discipleship journey will be essential. 
 
You can follow Phil on Instagram @mrphilknox
Check out the work of The Evangelical Alliance
He is also an author ~ Good News People ~ get your copy here
 
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Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.
 
In today's episode, we talk to Stu Otten about Leading Through Trauma.
 
Stu shares his story of how he was brought up in a Christian home, bullied at school, and through circumstances that he explains, got into criminality, violent and aggressive criminal activity
 
Yet through it all, he held onto some kind of belief in God, and it was anger at a sign for a church on the side of a hotel that led to a Holy Spirit God encounter, which turned his life around completely.
 
Stu has 3 decades of experience as a senior leader in social work, Churches, pastoral care, criminal justice, and the charitable sector. He is passionate about sharing his own lived experience of change from criminality as a young man, now focused on supporting others, and using his expertise to train and consult with leaders.
 
Stu is an author; his book The Switch is based on his past, while working within the British criminal world. You can read as the hero battles through, fighting to literally survive and keep his integrity while living in a world of violence and drugs.
Go to sjotten.com for more details or to connect with Stu directly.
 
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Welcome to the Leadership Community Podcast.
 
In today's episode, we talk to Pastor Jamie Daniels about 'Bi-Vocational Ministry'.
Jamie is the Pastor of County Durham CLC and also the Director of the Growing Leaders programme at Cranmer Hall, Durham University.
Having two jobs doesn't make Jamie unique from a ministry perspective, but it was helpful to discuss what it is like to lead in this way.
Jamie shares his leadership story before we get into talking about:
The benefits of being a bi-vocational leader
Leading others well
Navigating the tension of multiple roles
What success looks like for him as a leader
 
You may also be a bi-vocational leader. We would love to hear from you. Let us know what you think about this conversation, and what thoughts you might add to the ones that Jamie brings.
 
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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