Michigan Ministry Network L3 Podcast

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry.
Today we have Rocky Barra, Pastor Emeritus & Second Wind, AND Dave Stephens, Lead Pastor at Canton Connections Church sharing with us on how to transition leadership well in a church. Change can be hard for a church, especially when a new lead pastor takes over. So how can this be done in such a way that it is both beneficial to th...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today we have Rocky Barra, Pastor Emeritus & Second Wind, sharing with us on how to lead a church that will continue on after you. Having a succession mindset is something that Jesus taught his disciples, we as pastors need to follow that mindset not just in leading those around us, but leading those who might one day lead us. Your c...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today we have Lisa Harrell, pastor at Revival Tabernacle, sharing her heart on what it means to love on the people in your community outside of your church. The local church should have a local heartbeat for what is happening around them. Pastor Lisa does an amazing job challenging the typical way of thinking when it comes to ministry. W...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today we have Eddie Marcum, lead pastor at River of Life church talking with us about how to keep trusting God that the prodigal will come back. Pastor Eddie shares his personal story with us and what God has done in his life to bring him back. We all know someone that is believing that God is going bring back a loved one to the faith an...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today we have Mitch Frost, lead pastor of Tecumseh Assembly Of God, sharing with us on what healthy success looks like in ministry and what it really isn't. Success is becoming the person God has called you to become, and doing what God has called you to do in His way and in His time. Success doesn't happen overnight, so how do ...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today we have Phil Eliason, lead pastor of Ann Arbor Assembly of God talking with us on the importance of character in ministry. There's the saying "your talents can take you to places where your character cannot sustain you." How can you know if your character is slipping? It's important to take time to reflect even be...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today we have Tom Mattiuzzo, co-pastor of Every Nation Church in Flint sharing with us on how to provide care for not just those inside your church, but those in your community. As churches, we need to have a culture of compassion, caring, and serving, just as Jesus had for himself and the disciples. There's a practicality to serving...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today we have Kim Sivyer, ordained minister, military veteran, and retired police sergeant talking with us about how to keep your people safe. Unfortunately, the world isn't a safe place for everyone. Our churches are called to love on people that are dealing with all sorts of issues and we can't always know everyone's intent...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today we have Jessica Meissner, youth pastor at Auburn Hills Christian Center walking us through the process of remembering the why of ministry when things get tough. How do we deal with the difficult people? How do we have realistic expectations of others and of ourselves? We can't be Jesus to people. We are not the Lord, we are cal...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today we have Choco De Jesús, Assemblies of God US Missions Director, sharing his heart and the AG's vision of US missions. Pastor Choco share a lot of wisdom and encouragement for pastors in our network. These missionaries are reaching the lost here in our country and partnering with churches around the US. All of our US missionarie...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today we have John Easter, Executive Director of AG World Missions sharing a follow up from his keynote message at Network Council and talking more on the concept of sons and daughter in the missions field. It changes the dynamic of how we view missionaries if we view them as our own sons and daughters and that should also change the way...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today we have Sam Agee, lead pastor at Life Worship Center sharing with us on visionary preaching. This is all about having a full vision for your preaching, not just preaching vision. "Don't preach for Sunday, preach for everyday." As ministers of the gospel, it's our job to make sure we're putting forth every best...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today we have Tom Wirtz, lead pastor at Freeland Assembly of God sharing his expertise in staying positive while creating changes in your church. "Everyone loves change until you change something they love." How can you get around this mindset? There's so much change that a new pastor wants to make when they take over a min...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today, we have Jennae James and Tony Van Duser our camp directors of both Faholo and Lost Valley talking with us on the importance of camps in peoples lives. Camps season isn't just for students and kids. Camps are a time for people to grow together in Christ and get away from the craziness of life to seek His face and hear His voice...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today, we have Scott Shamel, lead pastor at Harbor Church, talking with us on how to create healthy change in a church. How do you determine what is "healthy" change? How can you honor the past whether that's people, process, or progress, but make effective changes that you know will help propel the church to the next level...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry.

Today, we have Dan Burger, lead pastor of Lapeer Assembly, sharing with us on the importance of having healthy pastoral relationships. The enemy is really good at making us feel isolated when we're going all the time. It's important to place high value on the that are close to us. What happens when someone leaves our church? How ...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry.

Today, we have Brian Lidbeck, the Academic Dean at Northpoint College, talking with us about the Next Generations hunger for the Holy Spirit. They have a great desire for Holy Spirit and we have an opportunity to invite them into an experience with the power of God and the fullness of His presence in their lives. They want to be connected...

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry.

Today, we have Tim Pike, lead pastor at New Life Christian Fellowship talking with us on the importance of having a spiritual hunger as a leader. "Spiritual hunger is a state of being that we decide that knowing God is the most important thing we can do." It's so important that we are being even more intentional to pursue t...