Multi Multi Podcast

Join Joe as he provides an update on the show :)

Join Gina Abbas as she talks with Chelsea Van Noord (Harbor Churches), Shanna Craig (Woodside), and Mary Reed (Woodside) about being a woman in multisite ministry. You will be encouraged by their insight and wisdom!

Join us for an incredible and encouraging conversation with Allison from Feed Youth Ministry Resources! Feed constructs FREE resources centered on core biblical convictions that the majority of evangelical protestants from different denominational backgrounds would agree with. They aim to help young people think about how they are supposed to live in response to the biblical truths covered in our resources. Give a listen to hear how you can utilize Feed in your multisite context to better equip your leaders and disciple your students! https://feed.bible/about/ https://www.instagram.com/feedyouthministry/

Summer is here and it is shaping up to (yet again) be a summer like never before. Join Gina and Joe as they talk about camps, mission trips, getting rest, and stacking hands as a multisite team to leverage and build momentum this summer!

Gina is joined by a special guest host, Joe Graham, to discuss all things hiring and interviews. Tune in as they give practical tips, principles, and insight on best processes when it comes to either being interviewed of hiring on new staff within your multisite organization!

Joe interviews Gina to hear about all of the leadership lessons he has learned along the way as he's led in multisite ministry for over a decade. From staff culture to valuing volunteers to leading yourself well in difficult times, we hope you're encouraged by this conversation!

Meetings, meetings, and more meetings! Join Gina and Joe as they talk all about how to make meetings great, different meeting rhythms, and the one thing you should never do in a meeting!

Gina interviews Joe to hear about all of the leadership lessons he has learned along the way as he's led in multisite ministry for over a decade. From staff culture to valuing volunteers to leading yourself well in difficult times, we hope you're encouraged by this conversation!

A conversation with Gina and Joe on different approaches when it comes to implementing a teaching strategy across the campuses. Whether it be using an already created curriculum, writing from scratch, video teaching, live communicators…there is much to consider and care for when it comes to teaching.

Gina and Joe have a conversation with Kent Bjurstrom, the pastor of student ministries at Northview Church, a non-denominational church with 13 campuses throughout central Indiana, on equipping, empowering, and encouraging multisite staff, students, and family amid a COVID world. Kent shares the shifting staff dynamics and ministry models that have emerged over the past six months as he and his team are making multiple on ramps for relationships to build and discipleship to occur. Blog: http://www.pastor2youth.com Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pastorkentb/ Personal Twitter: https://twitter.com/pastorkentb Church Site: https://www.northviewchurch.us/

Joe and Gina have an insightful and helpful conversation with Greg Ligon on the current state and future of multisite ministry. Greg also shares with us a free eBook called "Multisite Reimagined". This eBook peeks behind the curtain at churches that are expanding on this new reality of online multisite ministry rather than simply getting back to “normal”, finding new ways to be one church in multiple locations. You can check it out and download it here https://resources.generis.com/multisite-reimagined Greg Ligon has served churches and leaders for over 30 years including both founding roles and executive roles in multiple organizations. He served with Leadership Network for 22 years completing his tenure there as Chief Operating Officer. Greg and his wife, Susan founded Ligon Group, LLC dedicated to helping leaders and organizations “discover what’s next and create pathways to get there.” Their work in brand management and executive coaching includes authors Max Lucado and John Eldredge and the Jesus Calling brand. https://generis.com/greg-ligon/ https://twitter.com/gregligon?lang=en https://www.instagram.com/gregligon/

Vince Parker, the Central Ministry Leader of Switch, the student ministries of Life Church, join Gina and special co-host, Joe Graham, and they leave no stone unturned as they talk about ministry in a season of great disruption. From engaging students with online ministry to supporting a multisite staff to longtime shifts of ministry caused by COVID to leader recruitment to partnering with parents in a new way...this is an episode you're not gonna want to miss and you definitely need to share!

A conversation with Gina and Joe on some of the best principles & practices for having a presence at and partnering with schools. Tune in as they share different ways that your multisite team can leverage their specific gifts in their unique campus contexts to empower students to further the reach of the ministry!

A conversation with Tyler Bryan of Hope Community Church in North Carolina on collaborating and compromising with your student ministry team across the campuses to create a ministry that empowers leaders. https://www.instagram.com/hope.msm/ https://gethope.net/msm/

Joe and Gina are joined by Denzel Wright, Student Pastor of Woodside Bible Church - Pontiac campus, to discuss the opportunities and difficulties that arise when translating and contextualizing a suburban ministry model to urban campuses. Tune in for an insightful conversation on how your multisite team can be better for each other as you look to share the Gospel to the communities that God has called your church to.

A conversation with Scott Pontier on creating healthy rhythms and disciplines for yourself and for your multisite staff. Scott also gives us some free consulting advice by sharing with us three things that your multisite team needs to be thinking about to become a healthier church. Scott is the Lead Pastor of the Jamestown campus of Harbor churches and is also a senior consultant with Ministry Architects. https://www.amazon.com/Sustainable-Young-Adult-Ministry-Making/dp/0830841520 https://ministryarchitects.com/

Gina and Joe give an unfiltered look into the conversations they’re having with their multisite team and leadership when it comes to making decisions for retreats and trips (hopefully) happening in 2021!

A conversation with Gina and Joe on best practices for following up with students whether it is following up with a student whose come to your ministry for the first time or engaging with a student who hasn't come in a while.

Tune in as Gina and Joe as they share tips, tricks, thoughts, and the troubles we face when it comes to assimilating students into the ministry! Join the conversation as they talk about language to use, empowering leaders, and leveraging the multisite team to help create a greater sense of belonging for students.

Gina, EJ, and Joe sit down for an insightful conversation with Joe Graham about utilizing the enneagram to best lead your multisite student ministry team. Joe Graham is an enneagram coach and currently leads as the Multisite Director of the Harbor Churches, a multisite church in the greater Grand Rapids area. You can find out more about Joe's work as an enneagram coach by clicking the link below! https://www.joegraham.work/

Gina, Joe, & EJ are joined by student ministry and multisite veteran, Kevin Libick of Christ Chapel Bible Church in Texas. Tune in as they discuss best practices to encourage your multisite staff with regardless of what position you hold and share key principles to implement that you help create a greater culture of unity amongst your student ministry staff!

A conversation with Gina, Joe, and EJ on best practices for the age-old problem; how to recruit leaders...during a pandemic.

We are all thinking about it. We are all having conversations about it. We are all looking forward to it. The it? RE-OPENING!!! In this episode, we share a few questions you and your team should be considering as you look to re-open. As you hear our questions, we'd love to hear yours!

Kim, Gina, and Joe spend some time in this episode talking though celebrating the Class of 2020 and preparing for Summer ministry in this season marked by COVID-19. Tune into the conversation as they share both principles to embrace and practical tips to utilize.

The Multi-Multi crew sits down and shares how their multisite churches are responding to best care for their people and their community. Tune in as they talk about steps that have been taken, the impact on the lives of students, and the opportunities we have to share the Gospel in the face of the unprecedented, ever-changing ramifications of the spread of the coronavirus.

In this episode we pull questions off of the Multisite Student Ministry Facebook group (linked below) and talk all about metrics! Join Gina, Kim, and Joe as they talk about why metrics matter, what exactly they measure across their campuses, the collaborative process that's utilized to determine/change metrics, and more! Also, join the conversations taking place in the Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/multisitestudents

EPISODE 50!!!!! We can't thank you all enough for your support and encouragement throughout the first season of this podcast AND we are excited for what is to come! Give a listen as Kim shares how God has been working in her and your husband Max’s life over this past year and as we introduce the newest member of the Multi Multi family, Gina Abbas from Harbor Church, a great multisite church on the other side of the state of Michigan! We're excited for the insight, leadership, and joy that Gina will bring as another voice in the multisite student ministry conversation! https://jamestownharborchurch.org/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/099100504X/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0

Trying to keep you on track in this next Looking Forward episode; from Own the Nights to the milestone transitions that are to come as students move up grades. Join us as we talk about all of the opportunities to come in March and what your team can start doing today to have a greater impact tomorrow!!

Tune into an incredible episode as we have an insightful conversation with Crystal Chiang, the Executive Director of Student Strategy at Orange. Join us as Crystal shares about key things to be doing today to have a greater impact on the lives of students now and as they head off to college! https://www.crystalcchiang.com/ http://orangebooks.com/tribe-students/starting-now/ http://rethinkingyouthministry.libsyn.com/

Developing staff is one of of the most important yet confusing topics when it comes to multisite student ministry. Questions like; Who is in charge of developing? Who is creating the structure? Who is putting together the plan? Who is accountable to who?...Start to arise the moment this conversation begins and can often feel like the answers lead to nowhere. Join us for this conversation as we look to tackle these tough questions, give practical tips for growing your staff, and discuss why a relational approach to development is greater than any other!

It's the next installment in our Looking Forward series! This time around we talk about what you need to be doing now to make February the best it can be. Whether you're the leader or a part of the team, tune in to this episode to hear how you can make your team better now so you can have a bigger impact later.

Join us for an amazing and insightful conversation with Kristin Ivy as we talk about the power of partnering with parents and the importance of creating a culture of genuine care and trust that helps to make alignment happen! Kristen is the Executive Director of Messaging at Orange (The reThink Group, Inc.) and the Co-Founder and Director of The Phase Project. Use the links below to hear more from Kristin or to check out the Phase Project, you won't regret it! https://www.kristenivy.com/ http://justaphase.com/ https://www.instagram.com/_kristen_ivy/ https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-rethink-group-inc/the-think-orange-podcast/e/50098950?autoplay=true

Karl Romeus; multisite expert, student ministry coach, and enneagram hater, joins us to share some knowledge on what every central/global leader needs to ask the staff they oversee, to drop some truth about student ministry pastors being too busy, and brings some insight when it comes to how to operate best as a multisite student ministry team! https://karlromeus.com/ https://www.instagram.com/tv/BxNc609nKQA/

Josh Griffin of THE Download Youth Ministry joins us to discuss the state of multisite student ministry, what makes great leaders great, and the one thing that every one of your small group leaders need to be effective with both students and parents! https://www.downloadyouthministry.com/ https://www.instagram.com/joshuagriffin/ https://twitter.com/joshuagriffin

Greg Ligon from Leadership Network (https://leadnet.org/) joins us on this episode to discuss the changes and trends happening in multisite churches across the nation. Leadership Network is the premier leadership collaborative for pastors and churches. Over 200,000 church leaders around the world engage in Leadership Network to acquire innovative knowledge and drive local impact. By inspiring and equipping leaders, they seek to help the Church flourish and communities thrive. https://leadnet.org/

The next installment of our Looking Forward series is here. We find ourselves in the New Year, January, talking all about what you need to do now to best prepare for what's coming. Join us as we talk about evaluating the last few months to make the adjustments for the new year, the conversations you need to be having with your leaders, and what you need to start doing for the 5th graders, 8th graders, and 12th graders in your church!

Encouragement! It cannot be given enough and sadly too often it is in short supply. In this episode, we talk about a few practical ways to create a culture and build an intentional rhythm of encouragement!

Tom Shefchunas, aka Shef, joins us for an incredible and insightful conversation on multisite student ministry! Join us as we talk about how to create a culture of buy-in, how to walk through tension as a team, and to hear about what we need to be thinking about when it comes to student ministries (that we're currently not thinking about)! https://coachshef.com/ https://youthspecialties.com/ http://orangeblogs.org/xp3students/category/podcast/ http://ylcoaching.com/

Christmastime is (almost) here! That's right, our next Looking Forward episode is all about what you need to be doing now to make the most out of your December. Tune in as we talk about being intentional over additional, building inter-departmental relational equity, and engaging the CrEaster crowd!

Chase Depew, the Director of Student Ministries at Crosspoint Church in Florida, joins us on the show to discuss what they are doing as a multisite church to leverage the giftings of their team so that everybody wins and so more & more students lives are changed by the Gospel. Listen in as we talk about what to cut, what to champion, and what is changing in student ministry across the nation.

Vince Parker, the Central Ministry Leader of Life Church, joins us to talk about how he leads and serves his student ministry staff at 33 different locations over 10 different states. Join us as we talk about how Life Church handles alignment, collaboration, and innovation across their campuses!

Wisdom come pouring forth as the conversation comes spilling out between Joe, Kim, and the beloved Marko (Mark Oestreicher). Tune in as we talk about the relationship between leadership and the student ministry staff, the internal tension that comes with moving "up" in the organization, and the top two reasons why most student ministry staff lose their job!

We all know the importance of getting ahead, avoiding the "tyranny of the urgent, and being more proactive to opportunities instead of reactive to situations. That is the heart behind our "Looking Forward" episodes; to help you get ahead as a team and a ministry! This episode features a Multi-Multi All-Star, Mr. Ben HIxson! He joins Kim and Joe to talk all about what you need to be thinking about now to make the most of November!

Gina leads the Student Team at Harbor Church , a multisite in the greater Grand Rapids Area and is the author of the book, A Woman in Youth Ministry, has been hanging out with students since the year Mulan hit the movie theaters. In this conversation we hear all about how their team has moved from being strangers to family, practical ways to create community, and how to address/fix the communication breakdown!

One of the topics most often brought up is "How do you get high school students to stay engaged?" There is so much fighting for their attention and filling their schedules, so how do you create and cultivate a culture that keeps high school students engaged and equips them for their next stage of life? In this episode, we tackle this tough and important topic as we share from the mistakes we've made, lessons learned, and tangible things we've seen work, all by the grace of God! Tune in as you look to engage this generation of students with the life-changing truth of the Gospel!

The school year kick-off is less than a month away and before you know it you will find yourself in the midst of the fall with your next big event coming! Don't let what needs to happen now stop you from best preparing for the important things to come! This Looking Forward episode will help you do just that, begin to plan and prepare for that next big, milestone event you have in the coming months. Whether it's a retreat, outreach event, D-Now....it's huge and it will be here soon! Tune in as we talk about what we can begin to do today to get ahead of the game!

In this episode, we chat with Micah Marshall of the Refuge Youth Network. Micah and his team are doing an incredible work for the Kingdom in a creative, community-engaging way. Do not miss out on this powerful and encouraging conversation! Refuge Youth Network, an organization with the mission of creating a youth culture based on the love of Jesus Christ. They provide students spiritual direction and social support through our after school and summer programming, and youth ministries at three campuses across Blair County, PA. https://www.refugeyouthnetwork.org/

The Chapel is a multi-site church with seven locations all throughout the fine state of Illinois! In this episode, we get to hear from several of the awesome people that make up The Chapel's student ministry team. Tune in as they share they're insights, tensions, and where God is leading them as a multi-site student ministry.

The next installment of our Looking Forward episodes has us discussing what should be focused on as you approach fall kick-off! Tune in as we talk about what really deserves hype, why Joe hates bubble soccer, and how to create sustainability that lasts beyond your first night and goes out beyond your four walls.

As Zac Efron once sang "This could be the start of something new. It feels so right to be here with you." And we feel oh so right to be a part of something new, the Youth Ministry Podcast Network! This networks features five podcasts with five distinct voices all with one heart; to equip, encourage, and empower those who are faithfully following God's leading on their lives to impact this generation of students. Tune in to this episode to quickly hear from all of those who a part of the Youth Ministry Podcast Network!

People come and people go! This episode focuses on just that; what to do when a campus has no student ministry staff? Whether launching student ministries for the first time, filling a vacancy, or helping to find the right person during a time of staff transition; change is volatile and has the potential to bring about great growth for the specific campus and the team at large! Tune in to as you look to multiply the unified and unify the multiplied.