Reach Australia Podcast

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. 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.

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. 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.

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.

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. To support the Reach Australia Online Library head here.

Ministry in the regional centre of Lismore, NSW was transformed by two devastating floods in 2021. Stew Playsted (Senior Pastor) talks through: 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.

Chis Ekins is part of a team that planted Coast Evangelical Church (Coast EC). 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.

Ben Ho has made the unusual decision to step down from SLE church to plant and Steve Tran is stepping from co-pastor to lead pastor. What is St Lucia like as a suburb? What is the history of the church? Why did Ben decide he was the one to plant the church? Why are they planting in Centenary? What is the future of SLE and Centenary churches? SHOW NOTES: NB: when the recording was done Centenary weren't sure where they were meeting, they are meeting at the function rooms of the Jindalee Hotel. They will launch on the 8th of October SLE Church 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.

How does a loving community worship God together? Charles Cleworth takes us through how community should shape what we do on a Sunday as a church. Especially thinking through how to do the following elements effect what we do from the front? Liv Chapman addresses the idea of music and singing together. Andrew Hayes encourages us to use teams to develop Sunday services. SHOWNOTES: Slides from the Workshop Example Run Sheets from Grace City Vine Church EV Church Point Out Process from EV church

Phil Colgan from St George North Anglican Church reminds us of the noble call of the pastor from Acts 20:17-38. Especially the importance of “Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.” (Acts 20:28) Pastors need to keep in mind ministry is done: 1. In humility 2. With tears 3. Through trials 4. With the priority of the word 5. Guarding yourself 6. Guarding the Flock CREDITS: The Reach Australia Podcast is brought to you by ⁠Reach Australia⁠ Contact us via resources@reachaustralia.com.au You can give to the ⁠Online Resource Library

Des Smith, lead pastor from Trinity Lockleys Church in South Australia reminds of the importance of finishing to the end. CREDITS: The Reach Australia Podcast is brought to you by Reach Australia Contact us via resources@reachaustralia.com.au You can give to the Online Resource Library

Greg Lee from Hunter Bible Church speaks on Acts and the role of mission in community SHOW NOTES: Mission ebook by Dave Jensen CREDITS: The Reach Australia Podcast is brought to you by ⁠Reach Australia⁠ Contact us via resources@reachaustralia.com.au You can give to the ⁠Online Resource Library⁠

Ministry involves navigating a range of relationships and responsibilities, many of these are pastorally complex and the intensity of these relationships can often leave pastors drained of energy and confused about what help they can offer – How do you get clear on what your responsibility is, and isn’t? What help is actually helpful? This workshop offers a family systems view on pastoral care and considers how anxiety in relationships can often overwhelm the intentionality we would like to have in pastoral care. In this workshop we will: Executive Director – The Family Systems Institute Lauren is the Executive Director of The Family Systems Institute, an organisation that offers family systems training for clinicians, supervisors, coaches and ministry leaders. She is a mental health social worker, couple and family therapist and supervisor, with experience in tertiary level mental health services and private practice in Australia and Scotland, currently counselling with Family Systems Practice. Lauren has published articles with the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy and co-edited a book entitled Bowen Family Systems Theory in Christian Ministry. She attends Newtown Erskineville Anglican Church where her husband, Andrew, is the Senior Minister. SHOW NOTES: Growing Yourself Up by Jenny Brown Bowen Family Systems Theory in Christian Ministry: Grappling With Theory and Its Application Through a Biblical Lens (eds Jenny Brown and Lauren Errington)

Sally Sims (Care Ministry Coordinator) and Caroline Litchfield (Membership Director) for St Ives Christchurch in Sydney explain their approach for setting up systems for pastoral care through a church setting SHOW NOTES: ⁠Together Through the Storm⁠ by Sally Sims Care Resource List Community Plenary (Episodes 24.4 and 24.5) Slides from the Workshop ⁠Letters to Emma⁠, by Lee Carter (a book about grief and care)

Andrew Heard seeks to encourage your heart in serving God through difficult times.

Tim Clemens from Grace City Church talks through 7 important questions churches need to ask about community in church. Tim's ebook can be downloaded here. You can support the Online Resource Library here.

Karl Deenick, author of Gathered Together, speaks on the hurts a church pastor can feel and how Ephesians 3 helps us in that. You can get Karl's book here. You can support our resource library here⁠.

Rory Shiner, from Providence Church in WA, takes us through his last talk in Colossians where he helps us understand unity between and with churches. The link to the Taste and See form is here. The link to support our resource library is here.

Rory Shiner, from Providence Church in WA, talks us through the theme of church in the book of Colossians.

Rory Shiner, of Providence Church in WA, takes us through the majesty of the Son in Colossians 1:15-20

Reaching Islamic Australians with the gospel of Jesus has its own nuances and specifics. Samuel Green engagingwithislam.org Where to Start with Islam