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Reach Australia Podcast Reach Australia
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Reach Australia is dedicated to seeing thousands of healthy, evangelistic and multiplying churches across Australia.
Listen to great interviews from church leaders across the country, plus get all our talks and seminars from Reach Australia Conferences.
Also check out our shorter podcast The One Thing – designed to give you one solid, practical tip for gospel-centred ministry, every week.
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26.3 Wrestling With Working Hard and Resting Hard for Gospel Workers (Andrew Heard) | Conversations about Growth and Change
Work hard, play hard? Is that what we are supposed to be doing?
Andrew Heard has a new book out challenging us to think about how we should think about growth and change. Here is the third of four conversations about some of the things that didn't make it to the book.
Growth and Change is available from Matthias Media.
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26.4 It’s Not About the Five Ms (Andrew Heard) | Conversations about Growth and Change
There has been a myth about Reach Australia that church ministry is about instituting the 5 M structure of church. Andrew goes through what we are really about:
Clarity is King
Be Faithful in Inputs
Take Responsibility for Outputs
Break down the Big Things
Understand the Ecosystem
Andrew Heard has a new book out challenging us to think about how we should think about growth and change. Here is the last of four conversations about some of the things that didn't make it to the book.
Growth and Change is available from Matthias Media.
The Reach Australia Framework ebook is also a great resource.
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The Reach Australia Podcast is brought to you by Reach Australia.
For ideas or questions please email resources@reachaustralia.com.au.
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26.2 Why Working With Numbers and People Is Loving (Andrew Heard) | Conversations about Growth and Change
Numbers! Is it really unloving to count and measure ministry? Andrew Heard has a new book out challenging us to think about how we should think about growth and change. Here is the second of four conversations about some of the things that didn't make it to the book.
Growth and Change is available from Matthias Media.
CREDITS:
The Reach Australia Podcast is brought to you by Reach Australia.
For ideas or questions please email resources@reachaustralia.com.au.
To support the Reach Australia Online Library head here. -
26.1 Hard Things We Need to Hear about Growth and Change (Andrew Heard) | Conversations about Growth and Change
What are the hard things we need to hear? Andrew Heard spent seven years working on this new book, challenging us to think about how we should think about growth and change. Here is the first of four conversations about some of the things that didn't make it to the book.
Growth and Change is available from Matthias Media.
CREDITS:
The Reach Australia Podcast is brought to you by Reach Australia.
For ideas or questions please email resources@reachaustralia.com.au.
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25.3: Affected by Floods and Gospel Community Ministry (Stew Playsted Southern Cross Presbyterian Church, Lismore)
Ministry in the regional centre of Lismore, NSW was transformed by two devastating floods in 2021. Stew Playsted (Senior Pastor) talks through:
How natural disasters like floods can affect a city and ministry
How God has been at work in Southern Cross Presbyterian Church in Lismore over the past 10 years
How the Gospel Community model of ministry was applied in a setting like Lismore
CREDITS:
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25.2: The Challenges of Ministry in a Tourist Town and The Commitment and Cost of Training Church Planters (Chris Ekins from Coast Evangelical Church, Forster)
Chis Ekins is part of a team that planted Coast Evangelical Church (Coast EC).
The challenges of ministry in regional, tourist town
Success and hardships in planting in nearby regional centres
Engaging young adults who want to move the city
Working with other churches to plant more churches
Strategies for planning for the future
SHOW NOTES:
Coast EC website
Gap Year Programme
If you are interested in planting in Kemsey, email us (resources@reachaustralia.com.au) and start with our Assessment Tool
Kids and Youth Pastor
CREDITS:
The Reach Australia Podcast is brought to you by Reach Australia.
For ideas or questions please email resources@reachaustralia.com.au
To support the Reach Australia Online Library head here.