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This week's guest is Anne MacDonald.
 

Anne is the Student and Young Adults Worker at Bon Accord Free Church in Aberdeen. 
 


This week's theme is "Students and Young People"
 


Topics include:
 Women in ministry
 When to employ a youth worker 
 Issues facing young people today
 How do we make disciples? 
 Finding a balance between church service and family life
 

Official Site: https://www.freechurch.org/
Healthy Gospel Church Vision: https://freechurch.org/healthy-gospel-church/

This week's guest is Thomas Davis.
 

Thomas Davis is a minister in the Free Church of Scotland who has served as an assistant at St Columba’s Free Church in Edinburgh and is now minister of Carloway Free Church on the Isle of Lewis.
 
He is also a visiting lecturer in Systematic Theology and Church History at Edinburgh Theological Seminary. He is married to Una, and they have three children: Tom, John and Annie.
 


This week's theme is "Training and Equipping"
 


Topics include:
 How important is training in the church?
 Is an apprenticeship model appropriate? 
 Can ministry really be taught? 
 Are ministers professionals?
 Learning from other professional models
 

Official Site: https://www.freechurch.org/
Healthy Gospel Church Vision: https://freechurch.org/healthy-gospel-church/

This week's guest is Melissa Kruger.
 

Melissa serves as vice president of discipleship programming at The Gospel Coalition. She is the author of The Envy of Eve: Finding Contentment in a Covetous World, Walking with God in the Season of Motherhood, In All Things: A Nine-Week Devotional Bible Study on Unshakeable Joy, Growing Together: Taking Mentoring Beyond Small Talk and Prayer Requests, Wherever You Go, I Want You to Know, and His Grace Is Enough. Her husband, Mike, is the president of Reformed Theological Seminary, and they have three children.
 
She writes at Wits End, hosted by The Gospel Coalition.
 
You can follow her on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter.
 


This week's theme is "Mentoring"
 


Topics include:
 Coaching vs Mentoring
 Mentoring and the local church
 Mentoring generations and genders
 Becoming a mentor
 Developing a church prayer culture
 

Official Site: https://www.freechurch.org/
Healthy Gospel Church Vision: https://freechurch.org/healthy-gospel-church/

Join us on this week's episode as we welcome Rev. Callum Macleod.
 

 

Callum is the minister of Shawbost Free Church in the Isle of Lewis and the Principal Clerk of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland.
 


This week's theme is "Ministry Life"
 


Topics include:
 Entering ministry later in life
 Confirming the call to ministry
 Community ministry
 Maintaining our identity in Christ
 Can revival give a false sense of spiritual energy? 
 Commitment to the Confessions
 

Official Site: https://www.freechurch.org/
Healthy Gospel Church Vision: https://freechurch.org/healthy-gospel-church/

Join us on this week's episode as we welcome Lewis and Sarah Allen.
 


Lewis pastored Gunnersbury Baptist Church in London for over twelve years, and in 2010 was called to plant what is now Hope Church Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, where he is now Senior Pastor.
 


Sarah read English at Cambridge and now works part-time as an English Teacher as well as being involved in ministry at Hope Church. She has written a children's book about Hannah More and contributes to EN and Solas, as well as speaking at women's conferences.
 


This week's theme is "Couples in Ministry"
 


Topics include:
Discerning ministry as a couple
Complementarianism and Egalitarianism
Women in Ministry
Ministry pressures on a minister and his wife
Pastoral care
Managing expectations as a husband and wife
 

Hope Church, Huddersfield
Official Site: https://www.freechurch.org/
Healthy Gospel Church Vision: https://freechurch.org/healthy-gospel-church/

Ivor has been minister of Hope Church since July 2012. He trained for the ministry at Aberdeen University and Westminster Theological Seminary and served congregations in Lewis and Skye before coming to Coatbridge.
Official Site: https://www.freechurch.org/
Healthy Gospel Church Vision: https://freechurch.org/healthy-gospel-church/