Podcasts about small church essentials

Join us as our host Joe Epley walks through highlights from the book Small Church Essentials by Karl Vaters. This book is a great resource for practical tips on leading small town ministry. This book highlights good strategies for church health, and proper metrics to measure success that don’t revolve around the numbers. You can purchase Small Church Essentials or Karl Vaters’ other books at the links below: Small Church Essentials The Grasshopper Myth De-Sizing the Church As always if you would like to reach out the show for encouragement, or with feedback and ideas, you can connect with our host Joe Epley at joseph.g.epley@gmail.com

Comments? Questions? Send us a message!This is a podcast done by Karl Vaters (author, Small Church Essentials) and Sean Nemecek, a pastor who ministers to pastors to help keep them vitalized and fruitful.The name of the podcast is The Church Lobby, Conversations on Faith and Ministry. We asked permission to play this episode in its entirety. I think you'll find it to be extremely helpful and practical, dealing with the subject of pastoral sabbaticals. The Why, When, and How. Such a need in today's pastoral and church climate, where pastors are commonly becoming burned out and unhealthy, largely due to the demand upon them in this impossible calling (impossible apart from God's enabling help). For Poimen Ministries, its staff, ministries, and focus, go to poimenministries.com. To contact Poimen Ministries, email us at strongerpastors@gmail.com. May the Lord revive His work in the midst of these years!

Karl Vaters is not against bigness on principle. He is quick to point out that large churches can use their size to do things that smaller churches simply cannot. But he also says that the things that big churches do better are few, and that getting big, pursuing growth, often comes at great financial and spiritual cost. His new book is called De-Sizing The Church: How Church Growth Became a Science, Then an Obsession, and What's Next. He says that numbers are meant to inform us, not define us, and he goes on to say that our obsession with numbers is literally killing the church and its witness in the world. Karl Vaters knows of what he speaks. He grew up studying the Church Growth Movement, but he realized that most churches in America have less than 100 members, and that if he really wanted to make a difference, he should put his energies there. In addition to being a pastor, he has written other books, including The Church Recovery Guide, 100 Days to a Healthier Church, and Small Church Essentials. He and his wife Shelley have three children and two grandkids. The producer for today's program is Jeff McIntosh. Until next time, may God bless you.

Karl produces resources for Helping Small Churches Thrive at KarlVaters.com.He's the author of five books on church leadership, including his newest, De-Sizing the Church: How Church Growth Became a Science, Then an Obsession, and What's Next. His other books include The Grasshopper Myth and Small Church Essentials.Karl also hosts a bi-weekly podcast, The Church Lobby: Conversations on Faith & Ministry, featuring in-depth interviews about topics that concern pastors, especially those who minister in a small church context.Karl has served in small-church ministry for over 40 years, so he speaks and writes from decades of hands-on pastoral experience. He and his wife, Shelley have three children and two grandkids.

Karl Vaters joined me to discuss how to manage change in the church in ways that spiritually healthy. Karl is pastor at Cornerstone Christian Fellowship in Fountain Valley, CA, the author of several books, and the host of the Can This Work In a Small Church podcast. His book, Small Church Essentials, was the jumping off point for our conversation today. You can follow his other work here, or at @KarlVaters on Twitter. Good Ideas for Churches is a joint project between Matt Whitman's The Ten Minute Bible Hour and Eyes Up. Have a good idea? Something that's helped your church? Something that's made the Gospel make sense to people in your community? I'd love to hear from you! Shoot me an email at aron.eyesup@gmail.com.

Stan & Josh chat with a few pastors and ministry leaders who attended our Shepherd's Summit back in July to see what they learned, how their perspectives have changed, what they took back to their congregations, and how they might advise other small church pastors. Links mentioned in this episode: karlvaters.comreachmycity.com Support the show (https://614ministries.org/invest)

In anticipation of our upcoming Shepherd's Summit pastoral conference, we wanted to take this week to replay one of our previous interviews with Karl Vaters who will be the featured keynote speaker at the event. This episode tackles everything from COVID's impact on the Local Church At Large to essentials for church health, leadership, and much more. Access Karl and his ministry and resources at his official website karlvaters.comSupport the show (https://614ministries.org/invest)

Karl Vaters has been a small church pastor for 30 years, is the author of a number of books including: The Grasshopper Myth: Big Churches, Small Churches, and the Small Thinking that Divides Us (2013), and travels extensively to churches and conferences to speak about leading a small church well.

Josh & Stan launch a new season of Rescuing Churches with return guest Karl Vaters. Karl is the Teaching Pastor at Cornerstone Christian Fellowship in Fountain Valley, California and the author of several phenomenal books on small church ministry.  This episode will tackle everything from COVID's impact on the Local Church to essentials for church health, leadership, and much more. Topics covered in this episode:Catching up with Karl on life and ministryCOVID-19's impact on the Local Church At Large, particularly small churchesTrends moving forward into 2021 Engagement & connection vs. in-person gathering & assembling What churches need to prioritize and implement Practical ideas to foster community, physical interaction, etc. in a post-COVID world The difference between stuck churches and strategic churches Millennials and Gen-Z in the post-COVID church worldChurch health and church growth Links mentioned in this episode:https://karlvaters.com/Cornerstone Christian Fellowshiphttps://www.christianitytoday.com/karl-vaters/"The Blessings of Low-Tech Church During A High-Tech Pandemic" On Being A Small Church Pastor (with Karl Vaters)The Grasshopper MythSmall Church Essentials100 Days To A Healthier ChurchThe Church Recovery GuideLogic On Fire: The Life And Legacy of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Support the show (https://614ministries.org/invest)

This morning Moody Bible Institute's Dr. Jim Coakley joins us for a time of Bible Q&A, plus Karl Vaters joins us to talk about Small Church Essentials. 

The reality is, most of church leaders are leading a small church...and that's alright!  What matters is not the size of your church, but the healthy of your church.  Do you want to learn more?  Give a listen to this podcast as Karl Vaters (small church pastor and author of books like, Small Church Essentials) talks about the crucial role of the small church.  For more information make sure and check out KarlVaters.com.

In the first episode of Churchology we talk to Karl Vaters. Karl is the teaching pastor at Cornerstone Christian Fellowship in Fountain Valley, California. Karl has written several books including The Grasshopper Myth, Small Church Essentials, 100 Days To A Healthier Church, and his latest book The Church Recovery Guide: How Your Congregation Can Adapt And Thrive After A Crisis. Karl also blogs for Christianity Today on his blog Pivot. Make sure to check out Karl's website, karlvaters.com You can connect with Karl on Twitter, @KarlVaters On this episode we talk to Karl about how church leaders can stay healthy mentally, spiritually, and emotionally in the middle of a crisis. We also talk about what the church might look like on the other side of Covid, a few things churches can focus on right now, and why he's still hopeful for the future of the church.

Pastor, author, and speaker Karl Vaters joins Josh and Stan by phone from southern California to share his personal story, discuss his books, and talk all things small church world. Topics include everything from small church relational dynamics, shepherd vs. rancher model, and pastoral care to attendance expectations vs. health and much more.Be sure to visit Karl's official website at https://www.karlvaters.com/You can also learn more about Karl's books at https://www.karlvaters.com/books/"Equipping the saints" episode reference: https://www.buzzsprout.com/811628/3630850-big-goals-for-small-churches"Equipping the saints" episode on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/big-goals-for-small-churches/id1494654074?i=1000473655404Support the show (https://614ministries.org/invest)

Karl Vaters is a current voice, speaking wisely to pastors of small (aka "normal") churches. Since a very, very large percentage of churches fall into this category, it stands to reason that the pastors of such churches are normal pastors. It's not at all unusual to be a normal pastor of a normal sized church. The challenge is to be the best kind of church that Jesus can make the church to be. And the best kind of pastor. Karl Vaters has helped the cause of the kingdom of God greatly with his three books: The Grasshopper Myth: Big Churches, Small Churches and the Small Thinking that Divides Us, Small Church Essentials: Field-Tested Principles for Leading a Healthy Congregation of Under 250, and 100 Days to a Healthier Church: A Step-By-Step Guide for Pastors and Leadership Teams. Show host Bill Holdridge interviews Karl, with a helpful focus for pastors re: how to navigate the current Covid-19 crisis and beyond.

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In this "Best Of" Episode, Rusty revisits a conversation with Karl Vaters, the author of two books about small churches: Small Church Essentials and The Grasshopper Myth. On his blog Pivot, he writes about Innovative Leadership from a Small Church Perspective for ChristianityToday.com several times a week. He’s also the founder of NewSmallChurch.com, a ministry that encourages, connects and equips innovative small church pastors. Karl’s heart is to help pastors of small churches (up to 90 percent of us) find the resources to lead well, and to capitalize on the unique advantages that come with pastoring a small church – something virtually every pastor will spend at least some of their ministry years doing. He also believes that big and small churches can and should work together more often – to the benefit and blessing of everyone. Karl has been in pastoral ministry for over 30 years. He is the teaching pastor of Cornerstone Christian Fellowship, a healthy small church in Orange County, California, where he has ministered for over 25 years with his wife, Shelley.

My guest today is Karl Vaters. He is a pastor and author of Grasshopper Myth and Small Church Essentials. We talk about how to pray for your pastor and how to encourage your pastor. This is also a great episode to pass along to your pastor as an encouragement to them.  Show notes at: http://christconnection.cc/podcast/ 

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Please support us at Patreon.com! A couple of important links before we share the content of our episode: We need your feedback! We need your support at Patreon.com Please check out our merch store to support the show. Show Notes for Episode 44.1 Thanks for coming back again to listen to our latest episode. So glad you're here! We open up this episode with a few programming details and subscriber updates. Our listenership continues to grow despite our irregular release dates. Thanks for your patience as we live lives outside of TheBLAST. Jumping into the subject of our show, we are very blessed to welcome Pastor Karl Vaters for an exclusive interview. He is the author of The Grasshopper Myth and Small Church Essentials, as well as a regular blogger at ChristianityToday.com. He has 28 years of pastoral experience as a small church pastor in Southern California and has a fantastic ministry of encouraging small church pastors to make the small church great again! Make sure that you don't miss next week's episode to hear the answer to the question that Pastor Vaters has never been asked before. Thanks again for listening!   CHECKLIST FOR OUR "BLASTERS": Become a Patron to help us upgrade TheBLAST Podcast. Check out the latest items at our Merch Store Connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. "Binge-listen" to every episode! Leave us a Five-Star review on iTunes, Soundcloud, YouTube, or your Podcasting app of choice. SHARE, SHARE, SHARE! PLEASE CONTACT US: Send us an email at theblast@mail.com Sign up for our newsletter --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Karl Vaters is the author of two books about small churches: Small Church Essentials and The Grasshopper Myth. On his blog Pivot, he writes about Innovative Leadership from a Small Church Perspective for ChristianityToday.com several times a week. He’s also the founder of NewSmallChurch.com, a ministry that encourages, connects and equips innovative small church pastors. Karl’s heart is to help pastors of small churches (up to 90 percent of us) find the resources to lead well, and to capitalize on the unique advantages that come with pastoring a small church – something virtually every pastor will spend at least some of their ministry years doing. He also believes that big and small churches can and should work together more often – to the benefit and blessing of everyone. Karl has been in pastoral ministry for over 30 years. He is the teaching pastor of Cornerstone Christian Fellowship, a healthy small church in Orange County, California, where he has ministered for over 25 years with his wife, Shelley.

Karl Vaters is a pastor and author of Small Church Essentials. He blogs at NewSmallChurch.com and for Christianity Today. He joins me to talk about writing and success in a small church context.

Karl Vaters has been a small church pastor for 30 years. He's written about pastoring small churches in books (“The Grasshopper Myth” and “Small Church Essentials”) and on Pivot, a Christianity Today blog. And, he's the founder of NewSmallChurch.com, a blog that encourages, connects and equips innovative small church pastors. In Today's Conversation, he joins […] The post Everything You Need to Know About Pastoring Small Churches appeared first on National Association of Evangelicals.

Is bigger better? Are bigger churches healthier? If you are a pastor of a small church don't get discouraged. Healthy churches are better. Listen as author and pastor Karl Vaters takes on the ideal bigger churches are better in his new book "Small Church Essentials." Pastor Vaters defines what is a healthy church and steps small church leaders can take to be effective.

Welcome to the Restore Podcast episode 26. I am Javier, your host. Wherever you may be and however you listen we always thank you for joining us on the journey to helping Restore the vision, Restore mission, Restore the church. I'm really excited to have you listen to my conversation on this episode with Pastor Karl Vaters. He is the teaching pastor at Cornerstone Christian Fellowship in Fountain Vally, California, where he's been a pastor for more than 20 years. Karl has been a small church pastor all of his life, and he's written two books about it. The first book he wrote, The Grasshopper Myth, we briefly mention as we focus on his most recent book which I recently finished reading, Small Church Essentials: Field-tested Principles for Leading a Healthy Congregation of Under 250. In the book's introduction Karl mentions: "This book is not about how to get your small church to become a big church. It's also not about how small churches are better than big churches. They're not. And it's definitely not about settling for less. It's not about wanting churches to be small; it's about wanting small churches to be great." The fact is, most churches in North America have fewer than 200 in attendance and are considered a small church. The question is: What does a healthy small church look like? This book fleshes that out. An offer for you if you're quick: the first three people to e-mail me at javier.diaz@floridaconference.com and ask about Small Church Essentials will receive a FREE copy. Two final notes: First, I encourage you to look into attending EC3, the Southern Union's Evangelism Conference, coming this fall. More info is at southernunion.com/ec3. Second, we usually take a break of a month or two in the summer, so stay tuned for the next episode of the Restore podcast a couple months from now. Show Notes/Links/Resources Karl Vaters on Twitter: @karlvaters Karl Vaters on Facebook: Karl Vaters Karl Vaters Web Site: newsmallchurch.com Cornerstone Christian Fellowship: cornerstonefv.com

Welcome to the Restore Podcast episode 26. I am Javier, your host. Wherever you may be and however you listen we always thank you for joining us on the journey to helping Restore the vision, Restore mission, Restore the church. I'm really excited to have you listen to my conversation on this episode with Pastor Karl Vaters. He is the teaching pastor at Cornerstone Christian Fellowship in Fountain Vally, California, where he's been a pastor for more than 20 years. Karl has been a small church pastor all of his life, and he's written two books about it. The first book he wrote, The Grasshopper Myth, we briefly mention as we focus on his most recent book which I recently finished reading, Small Church Essentials: Field-tested Principles for Leading a Healthy Congregation of Under 250. In the book's introduction Karl mentions: "This book is not about how to get your small church to become a big church. It's also not about how small churches are better than big churches. They're not. And it's definitely not about settling for less. It's not about wanting churches to be small; it's about wanting small churches to be great." The fact is, most churches in North America have fewer than 200 in attendance and are considered a small church. The question is: What does a healthy small church look like? This book fleshes that out. An offer for you if you're quick: the first three people to e-mail me at javier.diaz@floridaconference.com and ask about Small Church Essentials will receive a FREE copy. Two final notes: First, I encourage you to look into attending EC3, the Southern Union's Evangelism Conference, coming this fall. More info is at southernunion.com/ec3. Second, we usually take a break of a month or two in the summer, so stay tuned for the next episode of the Restore podcast a couple months from now. Show Notes/Links/Resources Karl Vaters on Twitter: @karlvaters Karl Vaters on Facebook: Karl Vaters Karl Vaters Web Site: newsmallchurch.com Cornerstone Christian Fellowship: cornerstonefv.com

Is bigger better? Are bigger churches healthier? Is it possible for small churches to be great? If you have been asking yourself these questions, be encouraged to know you can have a healthy small church. Listen as author and pastor Karl Vaters takes on the ideal bigger churches are better in his new book "Small Church Essentials." Pastor Vaters defines what is a healthy church, how small churches impact their communities and steps small churches can take to be effective.

Karl Vaters is a small church pastor. He could be accurately called a small church champion. After nearly 25 years of ministry as a small church pastor he finally discovered this. He's written two books The Grasshopper Myth and his latest book Small Church Essentials.  If you're a small church pastor you should be following anything Karl writes.  Below is a quote from Karl's Pivot Blog... "Pivot (Karl's blog the resides @Christauanity Today) wants to help change our thinking about that. To encourage the body of Christ that small churches can be healthy, innovative and world-changing - just like they've been for the last 2,000 years. We don't want more churches to be small, we want small churches to be great! We want to see better, stronger, healthier small churches, led by passionate, prayerful, capable, innovative and loving pastors. We believe being small is not a problem to fix, but a strategy God wants to use. Most small church leaders have not been told that - at least they haven't been told it enough. If we can help turn up the volume on that message, we will have done what we set out to do."

Karl Vaters joins us once again to talk about how small churches should focus on growing healthier—not necessarily larger. The post Small Church Essentials with Karl Vaters appeared first on Church Answers.

Karl "the Shark" Vaters from NewSmallChurch.com joins us again after a 79-week span since his last appearance. We can't believe it's been that long - but he's back to talk about his new book - Small Church Essentials. Great encouragement for you!

The vast majority of churches in America are small. In the Assemblies of God, for example, 75 percent of all churches report fewer than 200 people in weekly attendance. Nearly 60 percent report fewer than 100. And nearly one-third report fewer than 50. Unfortunately, there are few books about how to lead a small church. Karl Vaters’ new book, Small Church Essentials is one of the best, and it’s both hopeful and helpful. (See our review here.) In this episode of the Influence Podcast, Influence magazine executive editor George P. Wood talks to Vaters about the unique challenges and opportunities facing small-church pastors. Vaters is teaching pastor of Cornerstone Christian Fellowship in Fountain Valley, California, and an Assemblies of God minister. He blogs regularly about small-church leadership at NewSmallChurch.com. Episode 135 Notes 00:00 Introduction of podcast topic 00:39 Voyage: Trusting Jesus in Untrusted Waters sponsor ad 01:17 Introduction of Karl Vaters 01:55 Why “church growth” talk is so frustrating to small-church pastors 06:47 Why a “Now what?” attitude is so important 10:08 Why small churches require different leadership structures than big churches 13:28 Why we need a broader definition of “church growth” 18:06 How small churches cast vision 23:37 How small churches disciple people 29:16 How small churches utilize facilities 34:00 How to follow Karl Vaters online 34:47 Conclusion

Author, Pastor and Speaker Karl Vaters jumps on EST to talk innovation from a small church perspective. Enter to win a copy of Karl's new book, Small Church Essentials, by posting a picture on Twitter or Facebook with your Small Church Pastor Nametag. Make sure to tag ESTchurch. Get your nametag here - http://newsmallchurch.com/the-wall/get-on-the-wall/

Author, Pastor and Speaker Karl Vaters jumps on EST to talk innovation from a small church perspective. Enter to win a copy of Karl's new book, Small Church Essentials, by posting a picture on Twitter or Facebook with your Small Church Pastor Nametag. Make sure to tag ESTchurch. Get your nametag here - http://newsmallchurch.com/the-wall/get-on-the-wall/