Growing Together Podcast: Setting the Family Table – Affinity Gatherings
Churches are wonderful places because of their tapestry of differences. With our unity in Christ as the foundation, we can enjoy and celebrate diversity without fear of division. Nevertheless, differences can be unsettling and even disorienting at times. Yet to strive for uniformity at the expense of diversity, misses the work of Christ in the […]
Growing Together Podcast: Responding to Disasters: Bringing Hope in Tragedy
Communities are often ill-prepared when a natural disaster strikes. Into that need steps MNA’s Disaster Response to support PCA churches in disaster-affected communities through a network of staff and volunteer damage assessment teams, first response teams, site managers, and key leaders. In light of recent hurricanes on the East Coast and fires on the West […]
Growing Together Podcast: Planting Presbyterian Churches in a Globalized World: Pacific Northwest
Planting a church often brings a diverse collection of people together. That is even more the case when the planter is from India, his wife is from Korea, and the new work is in Seattle, WA among high-skilled immigrant works in the tech industry. Listen to Sagar Mekwan’s story of what God is doing to […]
Growing Together Podcast: Preparing To Parent a Plant
Launching a daughter church is no simple task. As with parenting, birthing a new church can be fraught with anxiety and conflict and with joy and celebration. When parenting a plant, churches need to consider the costs and benefits, and having a good midwife certainly helps. If the PCA had a midwife or doula, it […]
Growing Together Podcast: Making Disciples of Those in Prison
Nearly one out of every 100 people in the United States are imprisoned or jailed. Over the past generation, those numbers have doubled, with the US having the largest number of prisoners in the world. What might be our role to proclaim Christ, disciple prisoners, and be better equipped to serve prisoners and their families? […]
Growing Together Podcast: Lampstand: Discipling Leaders for Biblical Church Vitality
When one says a church needs revitalization, people often picture a congregation needing urgent care or, worse, hospice. Renewal is a result of being revitalized, which every church should seek. Lampstand, a ministry of Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Alabama, comes into this space. Lampstand offers resources for church planting, church revitalization, and church acceleration. […]
Growing Together Podcast: Negotiating Leadership Challenges
Every phase of church life has its challenges. Gathering people to begin a new work, launching public worship, moving from a mission work to an organized congregation all present their own difficulties. What is often overlooked is the next hurdle, often described as the “solidification stage,” the time when there is a transition to a […]
Growing Together Podcast: Between the Podcasts: A Conversation with the Hosts of AAM’s Podcast Between the Pew
Between the Pew, a podcast of African American Ministries and hosted by Kellie Brown and Charles McKnight, is a conversation among African Americans in the PCA, sharing stories of engaging, surviving, and thriving in the PCA. Join this interchange between two PCA podcasts to discover new insights into the experiences of others in our denomination […]
Growing Together Podcast: New Options for Equipping Pastors
While in the US we have an abundance of great options for equipping pastors, there will always remain a need for new options to reach new opportunities. ThirdMill has recently rolled out a seminary platform so men can learn locally and be ordained in the PCA. Join us for a discussion with Dr. Greg Perry, […]
Growing Together Podcast: Storefront Missionaries
Church planting is a marathon, not a sprint. However, supporting churches and presbyteries too often expect the plant to achieve self-sustaining status quickly. What if the planter establishes a physical presence in a facility early on? That space becomes an incubator out of which a church can grow. Join Dan Millward from The Detroit Project […]
