Urbangelical

Josiah pastors a perfectly ordinary church in the St. Louis suburb of Maplewood call Crossroads Presbyterian Fellowship. He and Mike talk about the pleasures, pace, and problems of ordinary ministry.

This episode is the third in a series entitled "The B-List." The series consists of interviews with ordinary pastors, at ordinary churches, doing ordinary things. In this episode, Mike Kelly talks everyday life and ministry with David Scott, planting pastor of Trinitas Presbyterian Church in Bothell, WA.

Pastor Craig Harris from Yakima sits down with Mike and two of our residents, Jonny Finlayson and Andrew Perkins. They discuss practical tips for preparing to church plant and the ins and outs of planting during a pandemic.

We explore the circular reality of a leader’s development by identifying the skills that mark our progress and the need to take them with us throughout our leadership journey.

Joshua sat down with Mike to talk about the wonderful work God is doing among the people of the Yakama Nation and Sacred Road Ministries.

What do leaders look like before they’re leaders? In this episode Mike Kelly shares the Northwest Networks answer to that question by introducing the ECCLESIA Leader Profile designed to help pastors and parents identify and encourage young leaders become what God has gifted them to be.

The Northwest Church Planting Network doesn’t plant churches. We develop leaders who plant churches. This episode of the Urbangelical Podcast explains why and how we do that.

Al Barth has traveled around the world helping leaders serve their cities and continents for over twenty years as City to City Global Catalyst.  The last year has kept him in the states, but it hasn't kept him off task.  In this episode we explore his observations of the challenges and opportunities COVID brought to church leaders and shares work he's doing with others to identify what kinds of leaders God raises up to start Gospel movements.  It's all made him very optimistic about the Church and its mission.

David Whitehead coaches and trains leaders around the world as City to City Global Coaching Catalyst. In this episode Dave shares insights from leaders and ministries that have born fruit during the COVID-19 crises and those that have struggled. Those lessons are valuable, but his coaching approach is about more. He sees his work as helping leaders apply the Gospel to themselves first so God can do work in us, and not just through us. Read David's Bio

God got to your target community long before you did. He's been working though other churches, non-prophets, public-sector agencies, other religious faiths, and individuals. Jason Davison believes it is critical that churches begin there. We should show up as servants who want to help rather than patrons with a plan.

Greg and Dolly Joines planted Christ Central Corvallis 7 years ago. Like a lot of planters, they started to wonder if it was going to work and why they signed up for it. Those questions sent Greg on a journey into his own heart and to early medieval Ireland where he discovered some monks who knew a lot about hearts and, surprisingly, Corvallis, Oregon.

Dr. Crystal Farh is an Associate Professor of Management at the University of Washington Foster School of Business. Dr. Farh's expertise is helping organizations create space for open, productive, on-mission dialog, especially for individuals whose voices are easily dismissed or misunderstood by the prevailing institutional culture. She is a member of Trinity Church Seattle.

Welcome to Urbangelical, I'm Mike Kelly, and I have the great opportunity to talk to a longtime friend, Matt Round. He's currently planting a church in Edinburgh, Scotland called Hope City Church.