The Venture 12 Podcast

We speak to Angela Lam, founder of Hagar's Voice about abuse and the environments that enable them in the church but also how we can find routes to healing and safe spaces of transformation in the movement that Jesus started. HagarsVoice.com ClergySexualMisconduct.com Infinitum's True Self Check In Book Recommendation: Faith in the Face of Empire by Mitri Raheb Hagar's Voice on Socials @HagarsVoice (Facebook and Instagram

In this episode we talk to Rickard Cruz, missional leader and co-founder of Katalysator Sweden which has vision to plant the good news of Jesus in every place, in every ethnic group and in every subculture. In this conversation Rickard shares his experience and helps us reflect upon how we can meet our muslim neighbors and friends with a heart to learn and posture of curiosity to see what the spirit is already doing in their lives and attuning to loving ways we can speak about Jesus. https://www.rickardcruz.se www.katalysator.net

In this episode we meet Guillermo Navarrete and Seth Clark, who share with us the powerful story of Border Church and La Iglesia Fronteriza. This remarkable expression of the body of Christ at the San Diego-Tijuana border demonstrates its love for Christ through serving suffering humanity, pursuing justice for migrants and using their pinkies to pass the peace through the mesh metal walls between U.S and Mexico as part of their distinct and profound expression of worship. Church at the Wall Seth David Clark Church at the Wall: Stories of Hope Along the San Diego-Tijuana Border https://www.amazon.com/Church-Wall-Stories-Diego-Tijuana-Border/dp/0817018301

In this episode we talk to Hugh Halter, missional leader and author, about what it really means to bring our kids up in faith. Is our goal to raise religious kids, or are we hoping for something more? Hugh gives us great insight into what it could look like making the mission of God a family story.

In this episode, Bree Mills shares with us some foundational thoughts and wisdom around empowering micro church movements to emerge and flourish. She is an ordained Anglican Minister and director of Micro Movements Australia . ENJOY https://www.breemills.com.au/about

In this episode we share some prayers, poems and reflections for this unique Advent Season. We'd like to extend a big thank you to friends of the podcast; poets Sarah Bourns Crosby and Will Small for their inspiring and powerful words and contributions. Finally we'd also like to thank you all for listening to and supporting the podcast during 2023. We hope this reflective episode will give you something to ponder, perhaps give you something to discuss with others but ultimately draw you closer into the presence of Christ. May God bless you richly this Advent season and Merry Christmas! Contributions In Violence and Travail. Words by Walter Brueggemann, Voice Ashely Bowles, Music by Mark Cotterill Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals. Notes on Advent: Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove Blessed Is She: Words by Sarah Bourns Crosby (Advent Guide, Poems, Passages and Prompts) The Other Story by Will Small The Venture 12 Podcast Team Alex Gibson - Host -Editor Mark Cotterill - Host, Music and Art Hanna Mingay -Host Chris Mingay - Host Kris Halliday - Host Emma Cotterill - Host Bethany Gibson - Host

In this episode Will Small challenges us to rethink inclusion for the marginalised and the creation of safe spaces to explore life and faith. In this joint Venture 12 & Included: The Podcast chat, Will shares some of his journey of evolving faith, finding God in unexpected places and processing it through poetry along the way. To learn more about Will's work do check out the podcast and his website. Links are below! Spiritual misfits welcome here. - Spiritual Misfits WILL SMALL. - Home

In this episode we have great conversation with Mike Frost about his new book 'Mission is the Shape of Water: Learning From the Past to Inform Our Role in the World'. Join us as traverse through the rich tapestry of Christian history revealing how context shapes mission, just as a bottle shapes water. You'll encounter some well known and perhaps some unexpected voices, people and movements who have been loyal to the soil of their time and announced the universal reign of God's good news in profoundly transformative and beautiful ways. Where will the water flow next? What might the shape of mission be for our time and place, and how can we play our part today? The Book

We talk to Jessie Cruickshank about her new book; Ordinary Discipleship. Jessie learned how to be a disciplemaker in the wilderness. When she connected her training in outdoor adventure ministry with her Harvard degree in neuroeducation, God showed her a pathway for ordinary disciples of Jesus to experience profound spiritual growth.

Pete Enns is an author, scholar and professor. This podcast takes some of those Christian ideas that usually scare, intimidate or worry us, and then make those very places a meeting place with a God who is bigger and more wonderful, mysterious and trustworthy than we ever could have guessed.

The Gathering Network - Micro churches in an European context In this episode we have a conversation with Charlotte and Adam Penketh, the leaders of the Gathering Network in Glasgow. They invite us into a conversation about small missional communities, activating the whole body of Christ and what’s it’s like leading a network in Europe with its unique opportunities and challenges.

In this episode we meet Alan Hirsch award winning author of numerous books on missional spirituality, leadership and organisation and Rob Kelly who serves as a catalyst for city networks that unite the church for the flourishing of cities. Together they have just co-authored and released a book titled 'Metanoia". In this conversation we talk about the profound gift embedded in these first words of Jesus and explore with new eyes and new language this ancient call to realign our hearts and minds to Christ sparking the deep rooted transformation in people, churches and organisations that we so desperately desire.

Rev. René August is an Anglican Priest from South Africa who was mentored by and served alongside the great Bishop Desmond Tutu. A veteran of the anti-apartheid movement, René currently works for Tearfund and serves as a peacebuilding specialist walking alongside communities and churches as they seek to respond to the issues of poverty, injustice, and division. This episode firstly calls us to interrogate the narratives that we hold around scripture, power and privilege and religious authority, and secondly inspires us to contemplate once more what happens to the movement of power in any context as a result of the presence of Jesus. Reflection Questions True Privilege | Tearfund Australia

In this episode we talk to Brian Sanders founder of the Underground Network about his book The 6 seasons of Calling in which he invites us to see 'calling' as something dynamic and ongoing rather than something that is static or a one-time only experience.

This is 1 of 5 episodes of the Venture 12 podcast brought to you in collaboration with the Movement Leaders Collective featuring one contemporary apostolic woman sharing the story of a historic apostolic woman in this mini-series seeking to broaden our understanding of the apostolic gifting given to the Church. In this episode Emma Cotterill speaks to Keri Ladouceur about Prisca. Find out more about Keri’s work at: https://www.newgroundnetwork.org/ Who do you think most deserves her place in the ‘Apostolic Hall of Fame’? VOTE in our V12 poll using the link below: https://7qvreyxc737.typeform.com/to/Y0EyhseE

This is 1 of 5 episodes of the Venture 12 podcast brought to you in collaboration with the Movement Leaders Collective featuring one contemporary apostolic woman sharing the story of a historic apostolic woman in this mini-series seeking to broaden our understanding of the apostolic gifting given to the Church. In this episode Emma Cotterill speaks to Tracy Mathews about Lydia. Find out more about Tracy’s work at: http://attunetogrow.org/ Who do you think most deserves her place in the ‘Apostolic Hall of Fame’? VOTE in our V12 poll using the link below: https://7qvreyxc737.typeform.com/to/Y0EyhseE

This is 1 of 5 episodes of the Venture 12 podcast brought to you in collaboration with the Movement Leaders Collective featuring one contemporary apostolic woman sharing the story of a historic apostolic woman in this mini-series seeking to broaden our understanding of the apostolic gifting given to the Church. In this episode Emma Cotterill speaks to Christie Lothamer about Photini. Find out more about Photeni at: https://orthochristian.com/79178.html, https://romans1015.com/sychar-samaria/ Find out more about Christie’s work at: http://www.microchurchnetwork.co.uk/, https://kairosconnexion.org/, http://www.journeycommunities.co.uk/ Who do you think most deserves her place in the ‘Apostolic Hall of Fame’? VOTE in our V12 poll using the link below:

This is 1 of 5 episodes of the Venture 12 podcast brought to you in collaboration with the Movement Leaders Collective featuring one contemporary apostolic woman sharing the story of a historic apostolic woman in this mini-series seeking to broaden our understanding of the apostolic gifting given to the Church. In this episode Emma Cotterill speaks to Ellen Rupp about Marcella. Find out more about Marcella through: Lynn Cohick and Amy Brown Hughes's Christian Women in the Patristic World Who do you think most deserves her place in the ‘Apostolic Hall of Fame’? VOTE in our V12 poll using the link below: https://7qvreyxc737.typeform.com/to/Y0EyhseE

This is 1 of 5 episodes of the Venture 12 podcast brought to you in collaboration with the Movement Leaders Collective featuring one contemporary apostolic woman sharing the story of a historic apostolic woman in this mini-series seeking to broaden our understanding of the apostolic gifting given to the Church. In this episode Emma Cotterill speaks to Jessie Cruickshank about Aimee Semple-McPearson Find out more about Aimee through: This is That and Aimee: The Life Story of Aimee in her own - Aimee Semple-McPearson, Sister Aimee by Daniep Epstein Find Jessie at: http://whoology.co/ Who do you think most deserves her place in the ‘Apostolic Hall of Fame’? VOTE in our V12 poll using the link below: https://7qvreyxc737.typeform.com/to/Y0EyhseE

In this episode we talk Dr Michael Adam Beck, Pastor, Author and Director for Re-missioning Fresh Expressions U.S about the missional imperative to cultivate contextual intelligence that leads to appropriate forms of disciple-making and church. Reflection Questions Has this episode brought up anything that needs to change at the core of your community's cultural DNA? What is dwelling deeply in your mind/soul/spirit from today's episode? Which one piece of wisdom can I learn/share and apply from this? Michael Adam Beck – Missional Innovation