Iowa Church Leaders Podcast Tom Steele

In high school, Matt was a National Merit finalist who enrolled at the University of Iowa as a journalism major. But after hearing God’s call, he transferred to Ozark Christian College in Joplin, Missouri. Now instead of broadcasting the bad news, he’s proclaiming the good news of Jesus Christ. Matt has served as a youth minister, preaching minister, Bible college professor and is now president of Ozark Christian College. He was the president of the 2013 North American Christian Convention and he serves as a contributing editor for Christian Standard magazine. His writing includes two books, Finish-Line Faith and Victorious.  He enjoys reading, cheering for the St. Louis Cardinals, and traveling widely to preach about Jesus. Matt is especially grateful to God for his wife Katie and their six children—Luke, Lydia, Clara, Carl, Conrad and Caroline.

In this episode we have an in depth conversation with David Fincher about Central Christian College of the Bible. We talk about how CCCB is serving the needs of churches in training men and women for ministry. We cover the changes taking place in ministry as well as the growing demand to fill the ministry needs of churchs, as well as some very practical solutions. We hope you find the converstaion to be helpful!

Travis Roehm is one of the pastors at Adventure Christian Community in Davenport. I got him to hangout and talk about ministry. We are really not experts in anything, just two guys serving Jesus in the local church. We took some time to review what we learned from ministry this last year as well as project where things are headed for leading churches in 2024. We hope you find it helpful!

Dan is the Lead Pastor at Pathway Church in Johnston, Iowa. In this episode we talk about his connection with Hippo Valley Christian Mission in Zimbabwe, Africa. We cover the Kingdom work that is taking place in this spiriually hungry country and how the mission there has impacted Dan and the church. If you are interested in learning more about the work taking place in Zimbabwe feel free to contact Dan (dhudson@thepathonline.org)
We also talk about the upcoming, Real Men Iowa event coming up: 
January 19-20, 2024 at 


Pathway Church 6523 Merle Hay Road Johnston, IA Info@thepathonline.org

Josh has been living in India since 2008 and has a passion to see the Kingdom of God spread throughout the world. He is overseeing the church planting school at Central India Christian Mission (CICM), which prepares church planters to go to unreached areas in India and the surrounding countries. In 2015, he launched a branch of the ministry called Ignite, which has seen over 10,000 churches started in eight years! Josh also serves as the regional director of Central Asia for the NewThing Network. He has a Master of Arts in Missional Church Movements from Wheaton College and is the co-author of the books Christian Extremism: A Life Worth Dying For and Igniting Movements: Multiplying Churches in Dark Places. He is most thankful for his wife Lashi, his two sons Josiah and Jeremiah, and his daughter Zara.
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Guy Hammond is the director of Strength in Weakness. This Christian organization helps bridge the gap between the Christian community and the LGBTQ community through awareness, education and support. 
Guy, a minister for more than 25 years, has taught over 100,000 people in churches, universities, and faith-based groups around the world. He has authored six books, including Gay & Christian? his most recent. 
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