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Mandy Smith Interview

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Originally from Australia, Mandy Smith is lead pastor of University Christian Church, a campus and neighborhood congregation with its own fair-trade café in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is a contributing editor for Leadership Journal and the author of Making a Mess and Meeting God.

Her latest book is The Vulnerable Pastor: How Human Limitations Empower Our Ministry (IVP). Mandy and her husband Jamie, a New Testament professor at Cincinnati Christian University, live with their two kids in a little house where the teapot is always warm.

“It’s a strange thing to be called into ministry by a God who can do everything. What reason would he have to call us? The only thing I can figure out is that we bring one thing he doesn’t have: human weakness.”~Mandy Smith

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Karl Vaters Interview

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“Hi, I’m Karl and I’m a Small Church Pastor.”

That’s how Karl starts his about page. He’s been a Small Church Pastor for about 30 years. The most recent 20 years in my current church, Cornerstone Christian Fellowship in Fountain Valley, California. He’s a prolific writer who writes the Pivot blog on Christianity Today.

He’s the author of The Grasshopper Myth a book about being a small church pastor and the frustration of going to all the seminars, advice and books on church growth but still having a good small church.

If you’re a small church pastor you need to following and reading Karl’s stuff, heck if you’re any pastor of any church size you need to read his posts.

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Scott Perkins Interview

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Scott Perkins is a discipleship coach, author, speaker and podcaster. His passion is to help others understand their identity in Christ and live in that reality. He is thankful that God does not discard His followers when they make a mess. Scott lives outside of Orlando, FL with his wife Missy and daughter Sarah Grace.

He’s been a pastor. Burned out. Self-destructed. God’s brought him back and he  regularly experiences his grace. And it’s taught him the beauty of restoration in the process.

Scott cohosts the Project Pastor Quarter or Q with me each Monday where we discuss one question pertinent to ministry or leadership each week. Got 15 to 20 minutes, give this one a listen.

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Nate Pyle Interview

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Nate Pyle serves as Christ’s Community Church in Fishers Indiana, Lead Pastor.  Here’s what he says about his church. “You won’t find us on any list of large churches or fastest growing churches or innovative churches. We are just a group of people in the suburban midwest trying to figure out what it means to be faithful disciples of Jesus.”

His writings have appeared in the Huffington Post, Sojo.net, the Deseret News, The Good Man Project, Beauty Redefined. He’s the author of Man Enough, here’s part of what Rachel Held Evans says about his book “Man Enough is a fearless and faithful clarion call for the children of God to conform to the image of Jesus Christ, not to cultural or religious stereotypes around masculinity.”

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Steve Wiens Interview

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Steve is married to a wise woman who knows how to laugh. He the pastor and founder of  Genesis church a quirky community of people that he loves. He wrote a book called Beginnings, which imagines the seven days of creation as a process that is reflected in all of the beginnings in our actual lives, especially the ones that start in inky blackness. His second book – Whole: Restoring What Is Broken in Me, You and the Rest of the World, is due out in August, 2017.

Steve started a weekly podcast called This Good Word, where he explores what’s holy about our humanity, one word at a time.

“I love words and I scatter them everywhere, hoping they might set people free.” ~Steve Wiens

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Seth Winterhalter Interview

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Seth Winterhalter is the lead pastor of Harbor Church, located in downtown Olympia in the Capital City of Washington State. He grew up just north of Seattle and has lived in Missouri, New York, and now Olympia since 2005 with his wife and three children. He’s been in vocational ministry for over fifteen years serving as a music and arts pastor, executive pastor, and lead pastor.

Before and even during that time he’s also held positions outside of the church as a business owner, music director and conductor, and consultant. After earning a master’s degree in orchestral conducting in New York he founded the Capital Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus in Olympia, WA. In 2015, Seth and a team of passionate and talented people planted Harbor Church in downtown Olympia where he currently serves as the lead pastor today.

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