Leading Together with Merle & Cheree Shenk

Hello friends! Today we are going to talk about what it looks like to steward prophetic promises and walk by faith. It is all part of the journey of learning to walk with Jesus, and simply listen and obey His voice. We hope this message is an encouragement to you! -Merle & Cheree Resources Mentioned in Today's Podcast: Catch the full message we mentioned in today's show by looking for the July 4, 2021 Sermon Message | Summer in the Book of Acts, Pivot | Get Sermon Notes from the Church...

Our Story – Tools that Marked our Ministry This week we share on the importance of have people who can speak into your life and the value of investing in relationships by being open and vulnerable. We share how this resulted in breakthroughs in our lives. We also talked about growing in how to lead through conflict and high stakes conversations that everyone faces in some way or another, but especially people in leadership. We share a key tool that helped us grow in the area of having...

Our Story —Growing in Leadership In today’s podcast, we are share part of what felt like the unglamorous and challenging seasons in ministry, when we felt stuck, isolated, and like we were carrying a heavy weight alone as we were leading and were pastoring a church. Many pastors will relate to these years of struggle in ministry. We talk about what it was like to lead, when God gives you a picture of a Vision and you are plowing to see that happen. And how it takes years of serving and...

Our Story- Part 2- Navigating through Painful Leadership Transitions Today we are picking up from where we left off from Part 1 of Our Story. We really share this next part of our story with a sense of tentativeness and vulnerability. If you didn’t catch the previous episode, you might want to go back and listen to Part 1 first. Today we are going to be talking about how to deal with leadership wounds and disappointments. Hopefully we will do this in a way that is sensitive to this...

Okay, so we decided to lead with vulnerability. In this episode, we begin sharing from our own life story and we will cover the mess ups, the growth points, and everything in between. How we were called to ministry, formative experiences we had as teenagers, and how we ended up church planting in South Africa and partnering with so many cultures in the work of the gospel. This is only Part One of our story, so look for future episode drops that cover burn out and life lessons we learned in...

In today's episode we will share things we learned in our own experiences with growing in giving prophetic words, risk taking, and walking in humility after giving a prophetic word. We have had so many people talk to us about this recently. And we recognize that many in the body of Christ are wrestling with this issue right now. We believe that Prophetic ministry is God's idea, so let's talk about it in today's podcast.