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Sonlife Disciple-Making Podcast

A Podcast for everyday disciple-makers that desire to look to Jesus as their model for life and ministry. This show will offer practical, timely and relevant conversations around disciple-making in today's context. More information check out Sonlife.com
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Apr 7, 2022

Today we're discussing international ministry with Jay Fast. Josh and Jay share their top ten excuses that they've heard for not taking missions trips, we talk about some best practices for international trips, and look at Jesus exampe of cross-cultural ministry.

Jay is the Iternational Ministries coordinator with Sonlife and has been leading overseas trips with teams in the U.S. and Latin America.

Show Links:

Fusion

Equipping Cross-Culturally (Blog)

Email Jay

Mar 17, 2022

This week we're talking about building relationships with Nathan Glover of Urban Impact. We discuss the win, build, equip, multiply model that they have used and the importance of training others to make disciples.

Nathan is the director of training center with Urban Impact. He has been either in or leading Urban Impact programs since he was 7 years old. He spent time participating and volunteering throughout his childhood before joining the staff in his early twenties. 

 

Episode Links:

Urban Impact Youtube

Urban Impact website

Urban Impact misstion trip

Master Plan for Evangelism

Mar 3, 2022
We're talking about gospel conversations with Jeff Polen on today's episode of Everyday Disciple Makers. We discuss how Jeff started participating in an activity his brother was interested so that they could spend time together and Jeff shares his heart for ministry, music, and making disciples.

Jeff is husband, father, speaker, and worship leader based in Ohio. He is a musician and a writer with a heart for the local church.

Show links:

Jeff's website

Weekly Worhsip Thoughts (Jeff's book)

Sonlife's 5 booklets

Feb 17, 2022

Today we're discussing perseverance in youth ministry with Bill Winton. Bill has been the middle school pastor at his church for 22 years and has leaders on his team that have been with him for over a decade. We discuss middle school ministry and the power of win, build, equip, multiply.

Bill is the Middle School Director and Director of Missions at Christian Family Chapel in Jaxonville, FL.

Show Links:

Christian Family Chapel

Email Bill

How Jesus Made Disciples

Jan 20, 2022

Today we talk about reaching Gen Z with Jordan Whitmer. Jordan is a Gen Z leader with a heart for leading his generation to Christ. We talk about what works in reaching Generation Z and his experience in ministry to this generation.

Jordan is leading the HowToLife Movement and taking the hope of Jesus to his generation. The movement started when he was 16 and empowers students to share the good news of Jesus.

Show Links:

HowToLife website

Jordan's Instagram

Barna's Gen Z resources

Jan 6, 2022

This week we sit down to talk about strategic investment in the next generation with Doug Holliday. We cover Sonlife's roots as a youth ministry disciple-making organization and how we are refocussing on the prayer of being part of transforming the culture of youth ministry in North America and restoring it to the disciple-making heart of Jesus.

Doug is the Executive Director of Sonlife and serves on the lead team with Concentric which is a global alliance of ministries that provide Biblical leadership equipping based on Jesus’ model and strategy

Links from this episode:

More about Doug

Sonlife's training

Dec 16, 2021

This week we're talking about caring for your soul with Trey Van Camp. As leaders we must be sure that we are spending time with Jesus so that we can lead others well. Trey talks about his journey with spiritual disciplines and how he incorporates the practices into his own life and helps others to do the same.

Trey is a pastor, church planter and YouTube creator from Arizona, where he resides with his wife and three daughters.

Links from the show:

Trey's YouTube

Celebration of Discipline (book)

Mansions of the Heart (book)

Invitation to a Journey (book)

Dec 2, 2021

Today we discuss where is your identity with Micah Foster. It can be easy for ministry leaders to find identity in our ministry roles, but what happens when, whether by our choices or the choices of others, our ministry role changes. We talk about Micah's ministry journey and where God is leading him now.

Micah has been a youth pastor and a church planter. He resides in Fresno, CA with his family and is launching into a new venture as an entrepreneur. 

Links from the show:

Micah's YouTube channel

Roaring Lambs

Email Micah

Nov 18, 2021

This week we are talking faithful leadership with Daniel Goble. We discuss being faithful where God has called us, walking with people through the hard times, and how hard moments in ministry can lead to potential breakthrough.

Daniel is the associate pastor at Grace Evangelical Free Church in Colville, WA where he has served since 2009. He has a Masters in Theology and a Masters of Divinity and is wrapping up his dissertation for his Doctorate in Counseling and Psychology.

Links from the show:

Grace Evangelical Free Church

GC Designs

Daniel on Facebook

Boundaries (book)

Nov 4, 2021

We're talking about the power of story with Gwynne Gardner today. We discuss how sharing stories of what God is doing in our lives is a powerful tool. We also learn about how Josiah Venture is using stories from their team and what God is doing in Central and Eastern Europe.

Gwynne has served with Josiah Venture in Slovenia and Czech Republic since 2011 and is currently their Social Media Manager. She has a desire to see the gospel advance through the media highway and to use social media as a platform to tell young people across Central and Eastern Europe all about Jesus.

 

Links from the show:

Josiah Venture Stories

More about Gwynne

Jesus, the Middle Eastern Storyteller

Storify

Oct 7, 2021

This week we talk about following in His steps with Dave Noden. It is a great conversation with a man who spent his life following after Christ one step at a time. Dave's faithfulness to the assignments that he's had from the Lord are truly encouraging.

Dave served with African Inland Mission for many years and in 1967 traveled by ship to their assignment in Africa.

Show links:

Africa Inland Missions

How "Knowing Him" impacted my life

Sep 16, 2021

This week we talk about reproducing disciples with Bill Hodgson. The conversation covers how to equip folks in our ministry to make disciples, the problem with some evangelism training, and how to move from a ministry mindset to a moment mindset. Thanks for checking out the episode.

Bill is the National Strategy Director with Power to Change in Australia. He teaches and trains on disciple-making movements. He also the Making the Shift podcast.

 

Making the Shift (podcast)

Church Movements

Discovery Bible Study

Aug 16, 2021

This week are talking about an unhurried life with Alan Fadling. This audio is from a message Alan gave at D•Conference 2020. It inspires us to take a look at Jesus and learn from his rhythms.

Alan has been a pastor and spiritual director and runs Unhurried Living ministries.

You can buy An Unhurried Life here.

Podcast with Bill Perkins about The Jesus Story

Podcast interview with Alan Fadling

Aug 5, 2021

This week we talk information vs. inspiration with Joshua Verwers. There is great value in knowing what scripture says. But how do we move people from knowing to doing? How can we help them go beyond information and live like Christ?

Josh is a vlog pastor from Iowa. He has been on staff at his church since 2007. He has also been investing in digital ministry since 2018 where he encourages people to live by faith.

Josh' website

Vlog style sermon

Jul 1, 2021

Bill Perkins has been a pastor for over 25 years and has written or cowritten over 20 books. Today we sit down and talk about The Jesus Story, a blending of the four gospel accounts that Bill helped put together.

You can find more information at readtheJesusstory.com or follow his blog at billperkins.com.

Jun 17, 2021

We get to have a conversation about being a disciple making church with James Gleason. We talk about how it is important for the pastor to be investing personally in disciple making if he is going to lead a disciple making ministry.

 

James is the lead pastor of Sunrise Church in Hillsboro, OR. He has served on staff there as the youth pastor and lead pastor.

Jun 3, 2021

Today we talk about disciple making in small groups with Josh Burt. Josh is the associate pastor at Grace Bible Church in Columbia, MO.

Mar 18, 2021

This week we sit down with Val O'Brien to talk about bridging the generational divide in disciple making. It's a great conversation with insights on making disciples through the generations.

Val recently joined the Sonlife team and will be helping out with the Traverse project. We are excited about this chance to spend time listening to a younger generation of leaders. Through this our hope is to better understand how we can continue to equip ministry leaders.

Sep 3, 2020

What a great conversation with Michele about Jesus being away with the Father and His disciples.

You can email Michele at: michele@singular.org

Find out more about Singular at: www.singular.org

Michele's talk on women disciples: https://youtu.be/KSe07LRmU7M

Pray As You Go: https://pray-as-you-go.org

Aug 21, 2020

This week we sit down with Rev. Larry Austin who works as the director of church health with the Central District of the EFCA. He shares about how churches can use this season of change to refocus on making disciples.

You can connect with Larry on Twitter at : @llaustin

You can learn more about his ministry at https://efcacentral.org/team/larry-austin/

You can find Sonlife's 4 Chair Discipling book at https://store.sonlife.com/4-chair-discipling/

Jul 16, 2020

This week we sit down with Jay Fast and Josh Mangioni to talk about student ministry missions, Jesus as our model for ministry, and inviting students into our lives.

You can check out Josh Mangioni's student ministry podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-life-bridge-youth-podcast/id1509735478

And you can learn more about Fusion at www.sonlife.com/fusion

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